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Hello All,
Thank you in advance for any help that you may be able to offer.
Yesterday, I foolishly, did an upgrade of all plugs on a premium theme called Mr Tailor. The plugins were: akismet, getbowtied-tools, js_composer, maintenance,minimal-coming-soon-maintence-mode, shop-keeperkit-fonts and woo commerce. Also on the themes Mr Tailor, twenty 16, 15, 14. I believe I upgraded to WordPress 4.7.2 but I am not absolutely sure. The result has been a Fatal Error 500 and the White Screen of Death. I have run through every piece of advice other than reinstalling WordPress.
Having contacted my host (Gandi.net) they advised me that the problem is:
[30-Jan-2017 22:40:54 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare register_setting() (previously declared in /srv/data/web/vhosts/www.printmenagerie.com/htdocs/wp-includes/option.php:1871) in /srv/data/web/vhosts/www.printmenagerie.com/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1795
After a bit more pleading I found out that this means that a function has been declared twice.
I’m not sure what else to do. I’m reluctant to start from scratch because I don’t understand exactly what happened and I don’t want to find myself, another 15 hours down the line with the same problem.
With the plugins turned off, I can login (kind of) via http://www.printmenagerie.com/wp-login.php. After typing in my username and password, nothing happens unless I press the back to website button. This then takes me to the home page of my site, all of the code visible and the WordPress menus are visible at the top of the screen (as if you have asked for preview in the editing mode) but not available. If I navigate away from this homepage, by trying to access the Dashboard or themes I just get the White screen of Death.
Advice, help and general support affirming that I am not a complete moron is appreciated.
Many thanks
Olu