Updated WP to 5.6, now pages are blank. Everything seems to be conflicting

[AndyDaupert]

I updated our site today. Of course I first took a backup, but it was only for plugins, themes, etc. not WP files. I updated WP to 5.6. Upon checking the site most pages are blank. Tried deactivating plugins, and reactivating one at a time. Cornerstone definitely created an issue. I have tried rolling back WP to 5.5 with no luck. I have tried rolling X back to 7 with no luck. Tried changing PHP levels. At this point I can’t tell if it’s the theme, plugins or WP. I have restored theme and plugins, but still no change.

WP Bakery is installed, however on clicking edit on a single page, there is no blue box to edit the page via WPB in the backend. I turned on debug, and on one page the only thing that shows is WPB errors. Also, there should be submenus under the Shop menu item, when hovering over Shop, the subdomains do not drop down. I can ONLY click on Shop. Sidebars and footers are showing the way the should be, but content areas, except for Shop and Contact are blank.

I am stuck at this point, tinkering with this thing for about 4 hours.

I would appreciate any help I could get. Thank you!

[alexander]

Hi @AndyDaupert,

Do you have Cornerstone installed? I checked your site but I’m not seeing it. That would cause many of the issues you’re seeing. Can you please make sure X is updated to 8.0.8 and Cornerstone is 5.0.8?

[AndyDaupert]

Cornerstone is installed but deactivated. When I first deactivated all plugins, then reactivated Cornerstone was when all the content went away. I just updated X and Cornerstone (and activated), now there is an error in the dashboard: Notice : Undefined property: Vc_Updater::$title in /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/classes/updaters/class-vc-updating-manager.php on line 99

And a fatal error showing on the homepage: Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function Cornerstone_Element_Front_End::begin_excerpt(), 1 passed in /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 287 and exactly 2 expected in /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cornerstone/includes/classes/elements/class-element-front-end.php:31 Stack trace: #0 /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): Cornerstone_Element_Front_End->begin_excerpt(‘This is an acco…’) #1 /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(206): WP_Hook->apply_filters(‘This is an acco…’, Array) #2 /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/vc_grid_item/attributes.php(357): apply_filters(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘This is an acco…’) #3 /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): vc_gitem_template_attribute_post_excerpt(‘This is an acco…’, ‘’) #4 /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(206): WP_Hook->apply_filters(‘This is an acco…’, Array) #5 /home2/thepage/public_html in /home2/thepage/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cornerstone/includes/classes/elements/class-element-front-end.php on line 31

[alexander]

Hi @AndyDaupert,

Thanks for providing the error log! Always helpful when troubleshooting these things. Fortunately that issue is something we’ve encountered a few times and it has been fixed in the release we just pushed out. Try updating and see if that takes care of everything.

[AndyDaupert]

That seems to have taken care of it. I’m disappointed I had to spend four straight hours, then two days back and forth on a forum to fix something that X broke.

[alexander]

Glad to hear it’s working now. It’s actually a bug in WP Bakery since they are incorrectly applying a WordPress filter and the bug didn’t surface until some features we added. We’ve reached out to them to look into it but meanwhile have patched it by disabling some of our code while their Grid Builder is outputting posts.

[AndyDaupert]

Got it, thank you for the clarification.

[tristup]

You are most welcome.