To Fix Fatal Error In Popularity Contest Plugin Of Alex King

Posted by Blogger Man on September 5th, 2008

Fix Your Popularity Contest Plugin Fatal Error! Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King is one of my favorite plugin. It counts for post, archive views, category, comments and trackbacks. And accumulates them to decide which of my posts are most popular. Popularity Contest Plugin helps me to find out which of my post are viewed many times by my readers.

The problem showed up after I updated my wordpress to the latest version (version 2.5) this plugin doesn’t seem to work anymore. Every time i activate it error massage show, like this: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. And then I went to wordpress forum to find the solution for my problem, and I found that i have to edit the plugin in “popularity-contest.php” by making a little change in line 59 like this :

Change this require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with this: require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);

Yes it works! But not for this blog, this blog still very new, not more than 3 weeks. The above way works if I have installed the plugin before I updated the newest version. Thus for my other blogs who had the plugin installed before updating to WordPress 2.5 the fatal error fixed. But not work at all for this blog. Because i updated the newest version of wordpress first then installing the plugin. And I got another error like this:

‘Table ‘database.wp_ak_popularity_options’ doesn’t exist on line: 124‘.

And luckily i found the accurate way to fix the problem in Popularity contest plugin and WordPress 2.5 - from WP Guy. He modified the plugin and make the modified plugin of popularity contest of Alex King available to download. Yes i have it downloaded and it works like charms.

You can download the modified plugin from WP Guy in:

Popularity Contest for WordPress 2.5

Thanks WP Guy for helping me! Busby SEO Test

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