WP e-commerce and Featured Content clashing?

  • fastqcomm

    (@fastqcomm)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve run into a weird situation, and I think it’s a Flash clash between WP e-commerce and Featured Content Gallery (using the Lifestyle theme from RevolutionTwo). I’ve used WP e-commerce 3.6.8 and 3.6.9, with the same results.

    I have one site set up in WP 2.7, and with WP e-commerce turned on, it kills the Featured Content behavior. It even knocks my contact form, (Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form, wp-gbcf) out of commission with the error: “Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /httpdocs/wp-includes/functions.php on line 452”

    Never seen that last one before 🙂

    If I disable WP e-commerce, everything else works just fine. Same things happen on a WP 2.6.5 site with the same configs… what’s even worse is that even after I’ve disabled e-commerce, my contact form stays broken.

    I’m usually pretty good at spotting problem areas, but I don’t even know where to begin to look for this issue. Anyone have any ideas?

    I’m also open to suggestions for other good shopping cart plugins to try before I give up altogether and look at using Zen Cart…

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  • Thread Starter fastqcomm

    (@fastqcomm)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Anyone? I’m at a complete loss here.

    I updated Featured Content to the newest that came out in the past week, v2.1, and that doesn’t help at all.

    Something in wp-e-commerce is killing the Smooth Gallery operation, and the Featured Content Gallery (which is based on Smooth Gallery). What makes it worse is that this behavior happens in both WP 2.7 and 2.6.5, and deactivating and uninstalling wp-e-commerce does not resolve the problem… not even deactivating and reactivating Featured Content after the fact helps.

    The only way to unmunge the Featured Content Gallery behavior is to wipe out the install and start over. What in the world is going on in wp-e-commerce that requires a complete wipe and reinstall to resolve it?

    I haven’t been able to duplicate the fatal error that took out the contact form, which is curious. But everything else I have duplicated like clockwork… same behavior in FF (Mac/Win), Safari and IE, so I’m pretty sure it’s not browser fumble.

    Jen Baumann

    (@dreamwhisper)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    I am having that EXACT problem with the same 3 plugins. I deactivated wp-e-commerce and the Featured Content Gallery started working, but the contact form is giving the same error.

    Jen Baumann

    (@dreamwhisper)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    I see this contact form error in a google search on several different sites.

    Thread Starter fastqcomm

    (@fastqcomm)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    For some reason, the “Uninstall” option for wp-e-commerce doesn’t uninstall a single byte. I had to go through the tables in the database and delete EVERYTHING related to wp-e-commerce, in order to get things working again.

    My contact form did start working again after I disabled wp-e-commerce, and fully uninstalled it by wiping out the info for it from the database.

    Fastest way I’ve found so far to clear out the problem: wipe out the wp-e-commerce tables, wipe out wp-options table, and have it reinstall while maintaining your existing posts. You might get a few duplicate initial pages to clean up, but it does clean up the site.

    Jen Baumann

    (@dreamwhisper)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I ended up just switching to a different ecommerce plugin, Shopp. Everything works with no plugin conflicts that I’ve noticed thus far. I’m much happier.

    D C

    (@dcervenka)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I’m having the same problem and when I posted up this issue on Featured Content Gallery’s (FCG) support forum I received the following.

    “wp-eccomerce uses jquery framework, fcg uses motools framework, they are not compatible”

    Not satisfied with the response I did a little digging around and found that JQuery does provides some what of a solution for running on the same page as other libraries.. Now looking at the code generated by the page it appears that WP eCommerce is already using jQuery.noConflict();

    So the question is.. Is anyone familiar enough with motools (which is used by FCG) to find a way around this.. Because at this point it looks like the problem is with FCG..

    thoughts?

    Eric Mann

    (@ericmann)

    16 years, 12 months ago

    There’s a quick fix that will allow you to use the Featured Content Gallery and WP e-commerce together. I don’t know if it will fix the problem with your contact form, though. You’ll have to let me know so I can try to fix that as well.

    In any case, you can find the details of the fix here: http://mindshare.eamann.com/talk-it-out/

    The fix is towards the bottom of the page under the red “techno-babble” warning.

    Let me know if it works or doesn’t work for you!

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