webbva

Whenever you update your wordpress site you want to start from the bottom and work your way up. If you begin by updating the wordpress version you will receive a lot of errors.

First you should update translation, which is only there if you are updating from a very outdated version. Then you update themes, even if you aren’t using the default theme it’s good practice to update it anyway. Then you update plugins and after updating everything else you update the wordpress version.

If you are still receiving errors, read them and it will tell you what to do next. If you think there’s nothing functionally wrong with your site and these errors are just annoying, then go to your config.php file and change “define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);” to define “(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);” If the errors are still there then you cannot ignore them.

Ok so if the error message says anything about a file in the /wp-content/plugins folder then the error message is being caused by a plugin. As a website developer I think it would be best just to delete the plugin if it’s already updated. Cut your losses, it’s not worth it. Find a better plugin. It’s also never smart to edit anything outside of your wp-content/theme folder because everything will be wiped clean when updated. Also never download a theme and edit its files unless you plan to never update it, though the best thing to do when editing a downloaded theme is to make a child theme. That way you can still update the theme and your changes will not be erased.

If the error message says anything about a file in the wp-content/theme then update that file, again if it’s a downloaded theme it’s best to build a child theme. I like to use a sandbox theme like bones to build my themes, wordpress default themes are also classified as sandbox themes, they do not/should not use child themes.

Lastly if it’s anything in the wp-admin or wp-includes folder it’s the wordpress version itself and it is not translating properly, meaning you did not update it correctly from bottom to top. I’ve done this before and a quick fix is just to download wordpress from www.ads-software.com and drop the files that are causing errors directly into your site’s ftp folder. Yes this could be risky, but there isn’t any other solution I can think of. I had the exact problem you did because I did not update it correctly and this fixed it.

Lastly ALWAYS backup your work. Backup your Backup. Buy an external hard drive backup to backup your work, simple to use and update. You can also backup your work for free on https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/.

Hope this helps!