How to Fix ‘Failed to Load Resource’ Error in WordPress?Have you seen ‘Failed to load resource error’ in your WordPress website or browsers inspect tool? Many users find it difficult to figure out the issue for which resource or files are not loading and most importantly why it is not loading properly.
This can be any file like image, media, JavaScript or CSS stylesheet. Missing resource or improperly loaded resources cause your website to misbehave or showing functional errors.
Today in this post, we will show you how to easily fix and troubleshoot the “Failed to load resource error” in WordPress.
Why ‘Failed to Load Resource’ Error occur?
This error will appear when WordPress website is failed to load a file that is supposed to load. Normally when a WordPress page is created, it involves various files in the code such as scripts, images, stylesheets and many more. During page load these files are loaded by browser.
If a browser unable to load specific file, then it would display the particular page without that file. Moreover the browser will add a notice in the browser’s error console for debugging purpose.
Errors may have different helpful messages next to them. Here are some examples:
- Failed to load resource: the server responded with status 404 (not found) error.
- Failed to load resource: net::err_name_not_resolved
- Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
- Failed to load resource: the server responded 500 status code.
Even if a particular file didn’t load, rest of your webpage will load still. It just doesn’t look as expected. This is the reason you need to fix the error to avoid the issues.
Fixing Fail to load resource error in WordPress:-
As we have already said, the error is caused when website code mentions a file but browser can’t load it. This can be happen due to many reasons. Here we will look all that issues and try to eliminate them.
How to Fix ‘Failed to Load Resource’ Error in WordPress?
Replace the missing resource:-
First start with the most common solution that is make sure the failed resource actually exists. If the missing resource is a image then try to find it out in media library.
If you find it in media library, then add it again by edit particular page or post. if you can’t find it in media library then try to upload it again.
Sometimes you may see broken images or empty boxes instead of images in media library. In that case, you need to fix file permissions.
Replace theme or plugin files:-
If failed resource is a theme or plugin file, then the easiest way to replace it is by reinstalling plugin or theme.
Initially you need to deactivate current WordPress theme. If you have another WordPress theme installed on your site then you can go ahead and activate that. This way it will deactivate your current theme. Once you have activate the other theme, visit website to see the error has been resolved.
If the missing file is a plugin file then you need to reinstall the plugin.
Fixing WordPress Url to Avoid Failed Resource Error:-
The most common reason of causing Failed to resource error is incorrect WordPress Url settings.
Simply Navigate to Settings>> General Page and look for WordPress Address & Site Address option. Make sure both urls are correct, you need to keep same url for both options.
Remember, WordPress assume www and non-www urls as two different addresses. if your website has SSL enabled then urls must begin with https. Don’t forget to tap on save changes to store settings. Now visit your website to see if the issues are resolved.