Ok , I managed to progress a bit. One of the errors when trying to install tag-div composer was that the folder already existed. Since it was unresponsive to activation / removal via wordpress platform, i removed the tag-div folder from the wp-plugins folder; reinstalled the plugin and did manage to activate it!

Now , the website more or less returned to the original state however, there are still 2 issues.

1 – the home page no longer displays a slider with the featured image of each recently posted articles
2 – if you click on an article the page right hand side of there is some code spit out
( couldnt attach image but link to example article below )

https://newsflash.press/kim-kardashian-pete-davidson-breakup/

Hi !

I’ve deactivated all the plugins, tried reinstalation of tag-div again but after some time it fails and the provided error isn’t very helpful ‘an error occurred’ or something similar is displayed.

In one of the articles you mention above they mention a .htaccess file however I was not able to find this file on my web app. Not sure if this is relevant for this topic, im assuming if there was a DENY rule on the .htaccess file on my website, other plugins wouldn’t have worked as well.

Any other suggestions ?

Hi Bettina

Thanks for the reply. After some additional inspection it seems that the plugin tag-div composer fails is not enabled and fails to activate. Even after reinstall , the behavior reproduces . Would this be a case for checking the actual hosts cpanel ( it’s an Azure web app)

To clarify, before website home page used to have the menu sorting everything by categories :

newsflash before production break

Now the landing page looks very plain like you can see : https://newsflash.press

Works as a charm!
Thank you !!