Popular Contest Plugin Cannot Be Activated Due To Fatal Error
So far, there is no other great plugins to show the popular posts on your blog besides Popular Contest plugin. Do you why I said so? This is because I have spent long hours just to search for popular posts plugin after my previous Popular Contest plugin cannot be activated due to the fatal error, finally there is no one can be compared with Popular Contest plugin.
I’m so regretted to install and activate a plugin named Automatic Wordpress Upgrade yesterday, I think this is only one plugin caused my Popular Contest plugin cannot be activated, and it showed this error “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
I have tried hard to fix this problem with the help of this post, unfortunately I couldn’t make it although I have followed all the steps from this post.
I guess there will be a solution later, I can see some bloggers start to discuss about this matter in the forum. Hopefully this problem can be solved as soon as possible, otherwise I cannot post about April 2008 Popular Posts for this month, may be later month too.
Update 06/04/2008: Ken already helped me to fix this problem. Thanks Ken!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Hey, saw the trackback to the post… you said you’re having problems, anything I can help with?
April 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
It showed other error as below after I replace the coding.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘.’ in /home/hostingusername/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php on line 59
April 4th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Updated to Wordpress 2.5 with the Automatic Upgrade Plugin as well and is facing the same problem as yours. However, I don’t think it is the automatic upgrade plugin that is causing all these trouble though.
The plugin itself is currently under fix and a new version will be released soon. I have it deactivated for the moment until the release by Alex King.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Then I will wait for the new version soon! Thanks for you update.
April 5th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Hey Eric,
Just dropped you a mail with the patched plugin, let me know if there’s a problem…
All the best,
Ken