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  • March 9, 2018 at 9:50 pm #924757
    AJDesignCo

    I run daily backups, so I usually have no hesitation updating plugins and themes. This time, the site gave a 500 error after I updated, and when I switched to the Twenty Seventeen theme, the site loaded just fine.

    There is an issue (at least for me) with the latest theme. I’m running the following plugins on this site:
    • Gravity Forms
    • Instagram Feed (https://smashballoon.com/instagram-feed)
    • Jetpack by WordPress.com
    • The Events Calendar (https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)
    • WP Super Cache

    I didn’t try deactivating plugins one-by-one…I didn’t have time. I just downloaded the backup and rolled back Enfold to 4.2. The site loads now.

    I wanted to let you all know what happened in hopes that it’s an easy fix. Or if there’s a red flag among the plugins, please let me know.

    March 9, 2018 at 9:56 pm #924760
    joannapurosto

    Yes, the same thing happened to me too. I get error message:
    “Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in ../themes/enfold/header.php on line 6”

    Hopefully this will get fixed soon! I don’t have a backup so I’m screwed now.

    March 10, 2018 at 10:51 am #924885
    markpevans

    Upgrade PHP version to minimum 5.6 or replace /wp-content/themes/enfold/header.php file with this one – https://www.dropbox.com/s/r389b5x4ippscyn/header.php?dl=0 to bring up backwards compatibility with older PHP versions. Please also see – https://kinsta.com/blog/php-7-hhvm-benchmarks/

    March 10, 2018 at 3:17 pm #924931
    Rikard

    Hi AJDesignCo,

    Did you see any error messages after you had updated?

    Thanks @markpevans for helping out, upgrading your versions of PHP might help.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 10, 2018 at 3:18 pm #924932
    Rikard

    Hi @joannapurosto,

    Please open a new thread and include WordPress admin login and FTP details to your site in private so that we can have a closer look.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 12, 2018 at 2:13 pm #925521
    AJDesignCo

    Thank you Rikard! I thought I had all the sites in my hosting environment rolled forward to PHP 7, but this one was not. Problem solved. Thanks again.

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