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Ok. I applied a backup from the 7th December and still the website is down. I hope you can help because I’m really stuck now.

Unfortunately, I don’t have cPanel for my website. I turned on WP_Debug and got this error when trying to view the website:

Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: array_merge() does not accept unknown named parameters in /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/widgets.php:1261 Stack trace: #0 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/widgets.php(1261): array_merge(wp_inactive_widgets: Array, sidebar-1: Array, sidebar-2: Array) #1 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/widgets.php(1216): retrieve_widgets(true) #2 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(289): _wp_sidebars_changed(‘Specular’) #3 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #4 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #5 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/theme.php(2974): do_action(‘after_switch_th…’, ‘Specular’, Object(WP_Theme)) #6 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): check_theme_switched(”) #7 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #8 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #9 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-settings.php(540): do_action(‘init’) #10 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-config.php(81): require_once(‘/customers/6/2/…’) #11 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-load.php(37): require_once(‘/customers/6/2/…’) #12 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once(‘/customers/6/2/…’) #13 /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/index.php(17): require(‘/customers/6/2/…’) #14 {main} thrown in /customers/6/2/9/ch-air.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 1261

Is this of any help?

Am now trying to think of how I can get back in to the admin end of the website – do you have any suggestions? I already tried disabling all plugins at once via FTP but it did not help.

Yes, already looked there but the problem is I have 7 Specular licences and I’m not sure which one applies to this particular website.

I just found out that WordPress v5.8.2 replaces widgets with Gutenberg blocks. I definitely don’t want this change and want to keep widgets as they are. Hopefully this is possible.

Perfect! Many thanks for your help.