Fix Popularity Contest issue with WordPress 2.5
Posted by twoace on May 11th, 2008
If you encountered “fatal error” when trying to activate Popularity contest (on upgrading), you may try to do as following (taken from here):
- Deactivate older version or current version.
- Download the latest release if needed.
- Open popularity-contest.php and go to line 59. Replace “require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’);” with “require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);”
- Upload edited file to plugin directory
- Reactivate plugin.
Those steps by Blogvaria works like a charm! There is also a note “In case you are doing a fresh install you might also need to create the DB tables manually. More about how to do this here.” I hope it helps.
References:
http://blog.evaria.com/2008/wp-plugins-1-fix-and-1-update/
http://www.kenmc.com/2008/03/30/wordpress-25-is-live-and-wild-plus-popularity-contest-notes/