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.

Yes, of course. It will take me a short while to find it as I have purchased quite a few Specular licences for my websites.

I renewed support for another 6 months on 13/12/2021.

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.

Hi,

I just tried to upgrade Specular but the website crashed with critical error again and now I can’t do anything. Hope you can help.

Thanks,

Adrian.

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.

Unfortunately I didn’t receive a recovery email for some reason. I usually do but not on this occasion.

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.

I finally managed to gain access back to the website admin end so if you try it yourself it should work for you now. The website is now partially visible again but all the pages are missing, coming up instead with 404 errors.

Hi,

Just wondered if you have any news?

Regards,

Adrian.

How do I change the WordPress files please without affecting my website? Are you suggesting that all WordPress files should be replaced?

Are you still able to help Azam? My website has been down for 5 days now and I’m getting a bit desperate.

That screenshot looks great thanks Azam.

Thank you so much for your help – much appreciated. Do you know what the reason for the problems were?

Will the site update ok to Specular 4.2.2 without problems do you think?