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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › General Discussion › Fatal Error when upgrading to Genesis 2.2.6

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 3 months ago by electricbrick.
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  • January 28, 2016 at 9:37 am #177730
    Bojo
    Member

    I have the latest wordpress version. Just reinstalled my clean backed up site after a huge hack (whole other nightmare). I'm using the Decor Pro child theme, customized.
    When I updated to the latest Genesis framework I got this:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /home/o112183/public_html/shamelessvegan.com/wp-content/themes/genesis1/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150

    I'm less than good with php. Any cut and past solution?
    Frustrated.
    Thanks a bunch.

    http://shamelessvegan.com
    January 29, 2016 at 11:50 am #177824
    electricbrick
    Participant

    +1 — I'm getting the same error with one of my sites. My local dev environment is fine, but the production environment won't render the front-end of any Genesis child theme. WP admin rendering/access is fine.

    January 29, 2016 at 1:53 pm #177833
    electricbrick
    Participant

    I can confirm that reverting Genesis back to 2.2.3 got my site working on WPEngine.

    Here's a copy of the server's errors for Genesis 2.2.6:

    [Fri Jan 29 17:18:56.784639 2016] [:error] [pid 27082] [client 204.154.81.224:48310] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/admin/term-meta.php on line 253
    [Fri Jan 29 17:19:37.947526 2016] [:error] [pid 24725] [client 204.154.81.224:48415] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150, referer: http://ssmtva.wpengine.com/wp-login.php?wpe-login=ssmtva
    [Fri Jan 29 17:19:42.060802 2016] [:error] [pid 24789] [client 204.154.81.224:42058] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:22:44.934237 2016] [:error] [pid 24724] [client 204.154.81.224:42526] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:28:42.351816 2016] [:error] [pid 29063] [client 204.154.81.224:43782] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:28:45.691535 2016] [:error] [pid 29065] [client 204.154.81.224:43787] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:28:50.919339 2016] [:error] [pid 29066] [client 204.154.81.224:43797] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/admin/term-meta.php on line 253
    [Fri Jan 29 17:28:57.413964 2016] [:error] [pid 29063] [client 204.154.81.224:43813] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:29:00.896162 2016] [:error] [pid 29061] [client 204.154.81.224:43821] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150
    [Fri Jan 29 17:29:22.434476 2016] [:error] [pid 29066] [client 204.154.81.224:43865] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_term_meta() in /nas/content/live/ssmtva/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/upgrade.php on line 150

    January 29, 2016 at 2:14 pm #177838
    electricbrick
    Participant

    @Bojo — you need to update your WP Core to v4.4.1 for use with Genesis 2.2.6. This was the source of my issue. Due to being on WP Engine, they have a unique update policy with WP Core and I wasn't aware that my production site wasn't current.

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