xalmah

My site crashed just a couple of hours ago when I backed up my files to Dropbox. I got the alert: “There has been a critical error on your website.”

I didn’t even do anything, I just backed it up. I even got a notification saying that back-up was supposedly successful. So I restored it and nothing happened. I still get the critical error and now my files are all messed up because there are now the new and the “old” files together.

I know I’m supposed to send an email for support, but can you please just help me find the solution to this @aporter? Just tell me what is the first step I should do. I am not a developer and have no idea how to debug my site.

Sorry (I copy-pasted from gdiddy1’s post above) — I meant this is the code I used:

/* The following 2 CSS class selectors delete text "Archives: Courses" and replaces with "Courses" */
.archive .header-title{
  visibility: hidden!important;
}

.archive .header-title:after {
  content:'Courses'; 
  visibility: visible;
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 2px;
  font-weight: bold
}

Thanks so much gdiddy1! Your suggestion is very helpful!

For the others who are still trying to overcome this problem, my suggestion is:

(1) Open the page (as published) or a preview of it, then inspect the page using the Google Chrome Console. You can access that by right-clicking on the page and then choosing “Inspect” from the drop-down list that will appear. Or you can type alt+command+J on your keyboard (for mac). I forgot how to do it on windows.

(2) Go to the “Elements” tab, then click on the pointer in the upper-left hand corner of the console(?)/inspector.

(3) Hover over the “ARCHIVE: COURSES” portion and you will see details about it. In my case, it turns out that the class is “header-title” and not “entry-title”. Take note of whatever class is assigned to it in your template. If you are making the template from scratch, then you should be the one to assign a class to that particular header. You can read more about assigning classes in various online resources.

(4) Do as advised by gdiddy1, but this time select the class name applicable to you. For example, this is the CSS that I entered:

/* The following 2 CSS class selectors delete text "Archives: Courses" and replaces with "Courses" */
.archive .header-title{
  visibility: hidden!important;
}

.archive .header-title:after {
  content:'Courses'; 
  visibility: visible;
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 2px;
  font-weight: bold
}

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by xalmah. Reason: I made an error in the class selector