Error of type E_ERROR happening only on specific hosting

[defrost]

Hello,

On a specific hosting (to which I don't have full access to) every time I login to the Wordpress backend the theme fails and gets deactivated due to the following error:

Error Details
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An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 270 of the file /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-content/themes/lay/theme_update_check.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Attempt to modify property "response" on bool in /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-content/themes/lay/theme_update_check.php:270
Stack trace:
#0 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(309): ThemeUpdateChecker->injectUpdate(false)
#1 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(191): WP_Hook->apply_filters(false, Array)
#2 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-includes/option.php(1960): apply_filters('site_transient_...', false, 'update_themes')
#3 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-includes/update.php(787): get_site_transient('update_themes')
#4 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-admin/menu.php(33): wp_get_update_data()
#5 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php(158): require('/home/luisci01/...')
#6 /home/luisci01/public_html/wp-admin/edit.php(10): require_once('/home/luisci01/...')
#7 {main}
 thrown

I have the same exact copy of the website on WPEngine and this doesn't happen.

I understand that this is maybe out of your support scope, but maybe you have an idea as to why this is happening?

Thank you for your help!

Best,
Marco

[arminunruh]

hey i saw this error too once

go to your ftp and rename the "lay" folder in "wp-content" -> "themes" -> "lay" to something else

this disables the theme

now login to your /wp-admin/

then rename that folder back to "lay"

now activate lay theme again in your wp-admin
this fixes it

[defrost]

Hey @arminunruh thanks for your reply! However, this didn't solve it for me unfortunately. It seems like this happens from a certain version of the theme onwards and only on a specific website for me. Might it be related to the server, PHP8 or a specific Woocommerce plugin?

[arminunruh]

hey can you send your ftp login data and wp-admin login data and website url to info@laytheme.com

also send a link to this topic here

[Mati]

Hey @defrost and @arminunruh <3
I have the exact same issue with the following webiste rantibam.com and I can’t find a way to fix it. Was there maybe a solution found already? Thank you both!

[arminunruh]

so i included the new update checker and maybe that fixes the issue in subsequent updates

[Mati]

@arminunruh said in Error of type E_ERROR happening only on specific hosting:

so i included the new update checker and maybe that fixes the issue in subsequent updates

Awesome @arminunruh ! Thank you for this. So all I need to do is to update Lay and all Lay plugins?

[arminunruh]

yea right!