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So I am not well versed in wordpress and had this site built for a friend and it worked just fine for years. I tried to login to make some changes for him with /wp-admin and got the WSOD. I tried stopping all plugins, reverting to the standard theme and nothing worked. The website still works fine I just cant log in to it. So I turned on debuging through ftp and this is what I got.

Stack trace: #0 /home//public_html/wp-includes/widgets.php(115): WP_Widget_Factory->register('WP_Widget_Pages') #1 /home//public_html/wp-includes/widgets.php(1809): register_widget('WP_Widget_Pages') #2 /home//public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): wp_widgets_init('') #3 /home//public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(331): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #4 /home//public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(474): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #5 /home//public_html/wp-settings.php(592): do_action('init') #6 /home//public_html/wp-config.php(119): require_once('/home/zic97gker...') #7 /home//public_html/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/home/zic97gker...') #8 /home//public_html/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once('/home/zic97gker...') #9 /home/*/public_html/index.php(24 in /home/zic97gkeryai/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-widget-factory.php on line 61 [12-Apr-2022 18:48:07 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'WP_Widget_Pages' not found in /home/zic97gkeryai/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-widget-factory.php:61

Any help would be great!

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  • have you edited/modified files in the wp-admin or wp-includes folder? Or removed/added new files?
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Apr 13, 2022 at 13:44
  • I have not. He was having issues with a hack/redirect. I found that and deleted it. Thats all I did.
    – gablett
    Apr 13, 2022 at 14:23
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    And your comment got me thinking. Those two folders should be completely untouched so I should be safe to delete the contents and reupload them. I did that and lo and behold, it works perfect now. Thanks for making me think this through!
    – gablett
    Apr 13, 2022 at 15:02
  • can you post that as an answer below?
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Apr 14, 2022 at 9:17

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And your comment got me thinking. Those two folders should be completely untouched so I should be safe to delete the contents and re-upload them. I did that and lo and behold, it works perfect now. Thanks for making me think this through!

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