{"id":19008158,"date":"2026-09-01T06:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=19008158"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:53:25","slug":"version-2-8-7-breaks-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/version-2-8-7-breaks-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 2.8.7 breaks WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am using the plugin (both paid and free) version on a number of sites.<br \/>Unfortunately all sites with auto-update enabled broke down due to the latest update.<br \/>&#8220;There has been a critical error on this website.&#8221;<br \/>Is there any other way than disabling the plugin via FTP and get back online in order to rectify this serious error?<br \/><br \/>Excerpt from log:<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0 \/home\/public_html\/wp-content\/plugins\/smartsearchwp\/vendor\/autoload.php(25): ComposerAutoloaderInit6405029f70e23aeae5a145cd3210c21e::getLoader() 1 \/home\/public_html\/wp-content\/plugins\/smartsearchwp\/wdgpt.php(29): require_once(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 2 \/home\/public_html\/wp-settings.php(597): include_once(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 3 \/home\/public_html\/wp-config.php(114): require_once(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 4 \/home\/public_html\/wp-load.php(50): require_once(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 5 \/home\/public_html\/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 6 \/home\/public_html\/index.php(17): require(&#8216;\/home\/&#8217;) 7 {main}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">thrown in \/home\/public_html\/wp-content\/plugins\/smartsearchwp\/vendor\/composer\/autoload_real.php on line 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19008158","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-breaks-site","topic-tag-critical-error"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19008158","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19008158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19008171,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19008158\/revisions\/19008171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19008158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}