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Fix for fatal errors in Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress 2.5.1
By braddock | May 15, 2008
I’ve just spent two days trying to install Alex King’s brilliant plugin Popularity Contest. After loads of Google searches and the help of some people much smarter than myself I finally have it running in WordPress 2.5.1.
There were problems with the path the plugin was searching for wp-blog-header. I found the solution for that on WordPress.org. I was still getting fatal errors when trying to initialize the plugin though.
It seemed Popularity Contest just couldn’t create the tables it needed to run. So I found some instructions on manually adding the necessary tables using MyPhpAdmin from Godaddy’s hosting control panel. That didn’t go well. All I got were syntax errors in MyPhpAdmin.
I finally found someone who dug into Popularity Contest’s guts and patched it to work with WordPress 2.5.1. Now, there are alot of patched versions of Popularity Contest floating around out there. I tried 4 of them before I found one that worked. The wpguy cracked it and shows you how to patch it yourself. He also has a ready patched version for download.
In my search for a fix I also found a great widget for Popularity Contest. Just upload and activate it and you have a nice popular posts widget to stick in your sidebar. It even has a setting for the number of posts you want to display.
I’m sure Alex will release a version of Popularity Contest for WordPress 2.5.1 soon, but if you can’t wait the patched version from wpguy works now.
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June 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
can we find just a plugin to install with no errors since the creater of the plugin till today did not fix the problem? i am not into sql and i don’t know how to do that and i just want a plugin to upload and activate.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The WPGuy patched Popularity Contest so it will work with WordPress 2.5.1. Just follow this link to the WPGuy’s post:
http://wpguy.com/tips/popularity-contest-plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-25/
He has a link there to download his patched version. Just upload and activate it and you’re all set. It works!