Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Custom_Image_Header

Switch to the TwentyEleven theme (and make sure you’re using the latest version thereof).

What theme is this? Can you link to it?

I haven’t got access to admin panel. If I FTP can I delete the theme I am using and will it go to default. Or is there a way to activate the Twenty Eleven Theme? Thanks for all your help.

Yes, if you delete the theme it’ll revert to TwentyEleven.

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Two things to try.

1) Manually re-install WP

2) Delete the theme folder for whatever theme it was you were using.

Thanks all done. Cheers for your help.

Marked as resolved.

hello,

I’ve found another solution.

I wanted to stay with Back My Book theme, so, I’ve checked what had happened.

In file “../wp-content/themes/back-my-book/admin/custom-header.php” there’s a declaration of a class Custom_Image_Header. It overlaps class that already exists in WordPress Engine – that’s the reason of fatal error.

So, I’ve replaced name of this class to Custom_Image_Header_BMB (and other occurences – 3 occurrences all together in custom-header.php file), then I’ve renamed call to this class in “../wp-content/themes/back-my-book/functions.php” file.

Line number 98:

original:
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$GLOBALS['custom_image_header'] =& new Custom_Image_Header($admin_header_callback, $admin_image_div_callback);

changed to:
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$GLOBALS['custom_image_header'] =& new Custom_Image_Header_BMB($admin_header_callback, $admin_image_div_callback);

It worked for me. You can check it at https://henrykbaranowski.pl/

I’m not a programmer, only ‘home-made screwdriver’ ;-), so, if someone can check if that’s all – I’d be very glad for feedback.

Cheers,
asceta

asceta,

Thank you for your post! I also did not want to lose the Back My Book theme, and am very grateful for your insight. I’m not a programmer either and was at a loss.

I had to change the name of the custom_image_header line on a few other lines in functions.php, but after I did that – and after I re-activated all my plugins, all the error messages went away!

Amanda

Solved my problem. Kudos!

Thank you, Asceta. This fix worked for me.

Took a few attempts as Dreamweaver didn’t seem to like me trying to directly edit the files on the server, but once I chose to edit my local files instead and then PUT them on the server, it worked first time.

Brilliant!

Hello,

I just created WordPress, I succeed to log in, but than, I got a error : Fatal error: Class ‘Custom_Image_Header’ not found in /www/seri.be/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 1360

I didn’t add my theme or any plug-in.

I tried through yours suggestion but it doesn’t work for me.

Anyone help me ? plz !

i got this error. please help me resolve it!!! i am using back my book theme.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Custom_Image_Header in /home/booksfor/public_html/wp-admin/custom-header.php on line 16

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