Trouble with WordPress Plug-ins
Hi there. I'm not a professional web developer, so I'm not great at troubleshooting. Our site, Quest for Balance, is a WordPress blog with multiple plug-ins, a few of which I can't get to work. I've read the documentation and attempted to contact the plug-in developers with no luck so far.
Here are the two issues I need help with:
1) SUBSCRIBE TO COMMENTS plug-in: allows people to subscribe to comment threads (get emails sent to them when new comments are posted to specific threads). I can't seem to configure this correctly. Perhaps it has something to do with our web host (but I'm not sure what).
2) WP-EMAIL plug-in: allows people to email a post to anyone directly from the web page. It seems to work for most people, but not for us.
I get this error: Fatal error: Class 'WP_Widget' not found in /home/tusto/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-email/wp-email.php on line 1312
which I think means the plug-in can't find the class WP_Widget in the file wp-email.php, but I'm not sure what to do (on line 1312 or otherwise) to fix this.
Line 1312 is: class WP_Widget_Email extends WP_Widget {
These two things are important to help us build community. If you think you might be able to help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Serenity, Simplicity, Happiness... Adventure! http://www.questforbalance.com
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 14:15 — 18th July 2009.
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What version of Wordpress are you using? Looks like this plugin requires 2.8.
FairyBlogMother posted this at 19:25 — 18th July 2009.
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Hi there. Thanks for your help. I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting. Are you saying that the plug-in PHP Starter will fix the problem, but that it requires WP 2.8? (We're still at 2.7.1, looking to upgrade to 2.8.1, but having trouble with our web host.) Thanks.
Serenity, Simplicity, Happiness... Adventure! http://www.questforbalance.com
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 22:59 — 18th July 2009.
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You will have to upgrade your version of Wordpress to 2.8 for your plugins to work.
FairyBlogMother posted this at 06:22 — 19th July 2009.
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I thought they were supposed to be compatible with WP 2.7.1. However, I did just now upgrade to WP 2.8.1, and don't understand how to configure the WP-Email and Subscribe to Comments plug-ins. (They are still not working.) Thank you.
P.S. -- I should note that I don't get the WP-Email error I mentioned in the original post, now that I've installed WP 2.8.1. However, I still can't get the plug-ins to work.
Serenity, Simplicity, Happiness... Adventure! http://www.questforbalance.com
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