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Few days ago I suddenly couldn’t edit my homepage https://wta.nl/ anymore. I got the message “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.” Only the homepage was affected, all other pages can be edited without problem.
In order to solve the problem I’ve duplicated the homepage. After that I was able to edit the duplicate, but still not the original homepage. I then changed the WordPress title ‘Home’ of my original homepage into ‘Home2’ and changed the slug. After that I changed the title of the duplicate homepage ‘Home (copy)’ into ‘Home’ and changed the slug to ‘home’ and I published the page.
First I got a notification in WordPress backend from Rankmath that a slug was changed and that I could set a new redirection. I deleted my original homepage and deleted the redirection, associated with that old homepage, in Rankmath. It didn’t go smooth. I can’t recall exactly, but the notification kept coming, although I clicked it away. After that I checked the title and slug from the new homepage again and everything seemed fine.
I now CAN edit the new homepage, but when viewing my homepage I get a critical error: “There has been a critical error on this website.” The only solution is disabling Rankmath, then the homepage works fine again.
I don’t understand what went wrong. I’ve used Rankmath (free) without problems for two months, but now it suddenly causes a critical error. Somehow I think I messed up with changing slugs or redirections, but I don’t know how.
I hope you can help me, because I have a bit panic now… I’ve added my WordPress login in Sensitive Data.
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