Popularity Contest Plugin Fatal Error


	Popularity Contest Plugin Fatal Error

whatsupearl

4-13-2008 2:15 PM

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whatsupearl says:

Popularity Contest Plugin Fatal Error

As I was ungrading to Wordpress 2.5, I was having some major issues with my page not loading... here is a little info on fixing that problem.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6cee14dc-3254-489a-a8a6-416f1d54a290/FADF5F2F-204F-4187-B499-20E6F8533609/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/" href="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.andrewdaum.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Popularity Contest Plugin Issues~ Wordpress 2.5" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/">Popularity Contest Plugin Issues~ Wordpress 2.5</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><P>Something was going on that would not allow my front page to load. This has happened in the past, so I was somewhat sure it had something to do with a plugin.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><P>I went through all my plugins — made sure they were all up to date — one cool new feature in Wordpress 2.5 is the auto plugin update. You can automatically update the plugin from the plugin page — no more downloading — FTP’ing, etc (so I thought).<SPAN id="more-224"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><P>To make a long story short… I found the problem on <A target="_blank" href="http://blog.evaria.com/2008/wp-plugins-1-fix-and-1-update/">Blogvaria</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.andrewdaum.com/img/4E8C3A58-AAEF-40E5-9945-B2B3367C1B2B" alt="plugin-issue1.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/04/13/popularity-contest-plugin-issues-wordpress-25/"><P>Be sure you manually edit the line in the code… do not copy and paste (that is why I did an image instead of the actual code). 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