Upgraded to 5.1 and now entire site won’t load

@studiohome

Site appears to be loading on the frontend, so at least users can access it without an issue.

About the backend issue, can you try clearing the cache in your browser, and try again?

Maybe even try a different browser so as to ensure its not a caching issue thats causing the problem.

Thank you !!! I will try these all right now!

@gagan0123
Phew that worked thank you very much.

Can I ask you to click on the top post “Exceptional Accommodation” to see if it loads for you?

Any other advice you might have around the issues I am having with posts I build unable to update/save would be appreciated. Perhaps I should revert to the old editor?

Really appreciate your time and expertise!
Julia

@studiohome

Its good to know that it worked ??

About your site, it seems you tried to upgrade all plugin/themes, which is why site was under maintenance for a while and then started giving 500 internal server error.

You can remove the plugin named “Gutenberg” as this is already included in WordPress core. In case you want to switch to older editor, you can try using classic editor plugin.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/classic-editor/

@studiohome

For some reason, the post “Exceptional Accommodation” isn’t loading, and giving 500 Internal Server error. You might need to login to your hosting account and see if you can access any error logs. It would be easier to debug if I know what errors are there.

@studiohome

I tested out other posts on your website as well, it turns out that the issue is with that particular post “Exceptional Accommodation”, apart from that, rest of the posts are working fine.

Are you using any shortcode in that post?

Can you try removing it so as to see if thats causing the issue?

@gagan0123
Thank you!
I have requested information from my hosting company right now.

That particular post was the first made using the upgraded site. By shortcode …would this refer to embedded posts? I was embdedding posts from instagram (which I have done a number of times before the upgrade) and perhaps this is an issue?

I also have a PHP update that I need to do but need to update my site first. I have tried doing this using Updraft last night but nothing was working. I will try again and see how I go.

You are a guru!!

@studiohome

Thanks for the complement and always welcome ??

If you have any error logs from the hosting company, do post them here on the forum, and I’ll go through to figure out what could be the cause of this post issue and would be happy to help.

@studiohome

Just checking in to know if you’ve made any progress with the page. I tried accessing the page today as well, but it still wasn’t loading.

Out of curiosity, which PHP version are you using? Maybe if I can replicate the exact environment on your site, I’ll be able to replicate the issue on my development server as well. I’ll need list of which plugins you’re using and their versions as well as which PHP version is being used on the server.

Hi @gagan0123

I haven’t heard back from my hosting yet and didn’t have time to trouble shoot but am sitting down to do now.
I don’t know what PHP I am using? Obviously I need to update it and my hurdle has been getting back up using Updraft. My website seems to be so crippled at the moment that when I try to install the plug in I get this error:

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Any suggestions? Perhaps go for PHP update regardless as I think this might be the major issue

Thank you!

@studiohome

Maybe you can try to get a few errors/details from the WordPress itself with the help of a plugin named “Health Check”
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/

It can generate a lot of information that you can provide here for further debugging(as described in the plugin description).

Or maybe you can wait for hosting company to reply, as they have better way to approach your problem, having access to the error logs and knowing whats installed on the server.

@gagan0123
thank you I have just loaded to my site. It is recommending a back up again which I can’t so should I just go for it?

@studiohome

Since the site is having “Internal Server Error” pages while installing plugin or editing that particular post, I don’t know if backup would work, but try it if you can, in case something goes wrong on the site, you’ll have a backup to restore from.

@gagan0123
Yes I have tried a couple of times and its not working so might just have to risk it?

@studiohome

If you have access to your hosting account, you can directly login there, and make a copy of your WordPress files as well as database.