Title: “Error Thrown: Function name must be a string”
Last modified: March 5, 2018

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# “Error Thrown: Function name must be a string”

 *  Resolved [minidragon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minidragon/)
 * (@minidragon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/)
 * I’m helping a friend update their website, and she recently loaded her website
   on the GoDaddy Server with WordPress. However, every time I click on the “Edit
   Page” button, I get a white screen with: “Error Thrown: Function name must be
   a string”. I apologize for my lack of knowledge, but I have no idea what is going
   on.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/#post-10040980)
 * Errors like this are logged. Check the error log on your server. If you can’t
   find the log, please contact your host.
 * Meantime, enable wp_debug and wp_debug_log and after an error, look at wp-content/
   debug.log to see if anything gets logged there. [https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
 * You can also try this: Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of 
   the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one
   to identify the source of your troubles.
 * If you cannot access wp-admin, there are other ways to [deactivate plugins](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F).
 *  Thread Starter [minidragon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minidragon/)
 * (@minidragon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/#post-10044378)
 * Thank you for your quick response (I saw it yesterday). I’m going to try your
   suggestions tomorrow when I have more time to sit down and make sure I understand
   what I’m doing. I’ll report in once I try it all!
 * Thanks again.
 *  Thread Starter [minidragon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minidragon/)
 * (@minidragon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/#post-10054942)
 * Hi Steve,
 * I tried your latter suggestion and disabled plugins. It was the NextGEN Gallery
   plug that was messing up WordPress’ edit page feature. Thank you again for taking
   the time to answer my question.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/#post-10054975)
 * Be sure to post a topic in the next gen forum so the developers know about the
   issue. [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery)

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 * [error thrown](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-thrown/)

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-thrown-function-name-must-be-a-string/#post-10054975)
 * Status: resolved

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