How to Fix “There Has Been a Critical Error on Your Website” Error

Stuck with the "There Has Been a Critical Error on Your Website” error? With this error time is of the essence ⏰ Learn how to quickly troubleshoot it here 👆

Nothing is more terrifying than when your WordPress site goes down, especially when you get an alarming message like “There has been a critical error on this website.”

When you’re locked out and the frontend is entirely down, you need to know how to fix the critical error now. Every minute that passes is driving away visitors as they encounter a glaring error screen.

Luckily, fixing this critical error is usually just a matter of adding a small PHP function or deleting a problem plugin. In this video, we’ll go over a variety of ways to troubleshoot this issue and get your site up and running again fast.

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Intro
1:50 Enable Debug in WordPress
3:28 Restore a Backup of Your Site
4:16 Revert to a Default Theme
5:33 Disable All Plugins
6:59 Raise the PHP Memory Limit
8:32 Raise the Max Upload File Size and Text Processing Functions
9:26 Clear Your Site Cache
10:16 Upgrade Your PHP Version
10:51 Check for Malware
11:29 If All Else Fails: Where to Get WordPress Support

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📚 Resources

🛠How to Fix the “There Has Been a Critical Error on Your Website” Error

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[heeebeeegeeebeee]

Oh my god this video saved me so much time, thank you!!! It was a plugin auto-update that did it for me.

[juancamacho]

Your video helped me debug the errors on my site. Thank you!

[moviesurfer]

deleting the theme using ftp worked for me. thanks!

[IyadAbuHaibeh]

Thank you, it's solved my problem. my problem was Increasing My Site’s Memory Limit

[ciberadrian]

Thank you very much you really helped me to activate the debugging and I got the defective plugin and solved the problem right away.

[PhumlaniMahlangu]

Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… Thank you…

It was the memory