WordPress Critical Error? Fix It in 5 Minutes (Step by Step)

"There has been a critical error on this website" means PHP hit a fatal error and WordPress stopped the page. Here's the exact order I check things in on client sites: recovery email, debug log, plugins, theme, PHP version and memory, core files.

📖 Full written guide (every command + more edge cases): hemantinsights.com/blog/fix-wordpress-critical-error-white-screen 🛠 Regex tester (pull fatal errors out of a long log): hemantinsights.com/tools/regex-tester 💼 Site down and you need it fixed hemantinsights.com/contact?type=project

Tested on WordPress 7.1.4, PHP 8.3 and WP-CLI 2.11. Recovery-mode emails need WordPress 5.2 or newer. Narration: Kokoro TTS (Apache-2.0). Music: original. Animation: original.