{"id":18998609,"date":"2026-08-20T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/critical-error-when-adding-or-editing-wordpress-blog-posts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:44:41","slug":"critical-error-when-adding-or-editing-wordpress-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/critical-error-when-adding-or-editing-wordpress-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical error when adding or editing WordPress blog posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi WordPress Support,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m reaching out for help with a recurring critical error in our WordPress admin console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I try to <strong>add a new blog post or edit an existing one<\/strong>, WordPress redirects me to an error page stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the website appears to be functioning normally, and the issue seems specifically related to creating or editing posts within <strong>WP Admin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve attached a screenshot of the error for reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could you please help us investigate what may be causing this? In particular, it would be helpful to know whether this could be related to WordPress itself, a plugin or theme conflict, PHP\/server configuration, or another issue within the post editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As this is currently preventing us from updating our website and publishing new content, we\u2019d really appreciate your support in resolving it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please let me know if you need our site URL, WordPress\/PHP version, error logs, plugin information, or any other details from our end to troubleshoot this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best,<br \/>Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18998609","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-blog-posts","topic-tag-critical-error"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18998609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18998609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18998609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}