Undefined function register_setting() in js_composer

  • Resolved davvvy

    (@davvvy)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, I am pretty new to WP, have built a couple of sites and really like working with it. However I’ve run into a problem with this development site I just updated to latest WP, themes, and plugins versions. I can browse the site alright, but if I try to go into wp-admin, or any of the other editing pages, the site crashes and returns this message:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_setting() in /home/mrktgu5/public_html/bethscarehome/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/classes/settings/class-vc-settings.php on line 377

    I’ve searched extensively on these forums and elsewhere; I’ve used FTP to delete the plugin (js_composer, which I believe is needed for Virtual Composer) – that didn’t help at all, in that case I can even load the site on my browsers. I’m pretty much exhausted my capabilities to troubleshoot this issue and would like to seek help here.

    Hopefully someone will know what to do, thank you all very much in advance.

    David

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  • Konstantinos Xenos

    (@xkon)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello and welcome to the forums !

    First of all js_composer is actually Virtual Composers base directory so you actually removed the whole plugin by removing that folder. That is probably why your front-end stoped working since everything was passing through VC before.

    In the case of register_setting() is used in the Settings API of WordPress so that means it’s a function that is built-in into WordPress ( https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Settings_API ) and this tells us that maybe your updates where not fully successful resulting into some corrupted files.

    You can always go to Dashboard -> Updates menu on your Admin area and click Re-Install Now for the core files to be re-installed in case that fixes it.

    If that doesn’t fix the issue and the plugin continues to give you errors about register_setting you can always contact the plugin’s authors since it’s a commercial plugin and you’re their customer 🙂

    Make sure to always keep a backups before changing / updating things to be safe.

    Thread Starter davvvy

    (@davvvy)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you for your fast response, Xenos.

    Unfortunately I cannot access any of my admin pages on the site. Since I updated WP as well as several other plugins at the same time, does the error still indicate that it’s WP that may be corrupted?

    If you think that’s the case, I guess I can try to do a manual re-install of WP. I’ll need to read up on that and try it out then.

    Konstantinos Xenos

    (@xkon)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    It might be a number of things but since you don’t have a working site at the moment let’s try to solve that first.

    You can do this:
    1) Download WordPress
    2) Connect to your server via FTP
    3) rename the wp-content/plugins/ folder into something else for now but do not delete it ( this will force WordPress to reset all your plugins )
    4) upload the wp-includes and wp-admin folders and by replacing the existing folders.

    There’s no need to touch your wp-config, and no need to touch the /wp-content/ ( except the plugins ) so your files will be left as is.

    That should get your WordPress back to a safe starting place to start re-installing plugins again and see if everything works as supposed to.

    Again as I can’t stress this much, always create backups of at least 1 previous instance as a fallback.

    Thread Starter davvvy

    (@davvvy)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi again Xenos, I got it fixed!!!!

    I did everything as you laid out, but I had to also copy over all the files in the root directory of the new WP folder, as well as the loose files in the wp-content folder. Once I did those things, and also uploaded the new wp-admin and wp-includes folder, the last step was to rename my old plugins folder, which I had labeled plugins-old.

    Bang, everything looked good, and I was also able to login to my wp-admin page (after WP made me update the database). I’m merrily editing away my site pages now, thank you again very much for your help!

    Cheers,

    David

    Konstantinos Xenos

    (@xkon)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    No problem at all David, glad I could help 🙂 . Don’t forget to mark this topic as resolved to keep the forums nice and tidy !

    Thread Starter davvvy

    (@davvvy)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Done. Thank you again for a speedy resolution of my problem. 🙂

    David

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