Title: Error Message with 1.0 update
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error Message with 1.0 update

 *  [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/)
 * I updated to 1.0 and the content of my entire page did not display — just the
   error message “Carousel with ID has already been shown.” I have only one carousel
   and only one instance of that carousel on the page.
 * When I rolled back to the beta (.91) everything was fine again, as it has been
   with all earlier versions of the plugin.

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 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157559)
 * To create the carousels WP Carousel needs to asign a specific ID to the div that
   contains the carousel so as to indicate to StepCarousel (or jCarousel) which 
   div is the carousel’s div.
 * When you add a carousel twice or more, there are multiple divs with the same 
   ID, which is not good. StepCarousel and jCarousel should work but they simply
   don’t. To fix this, I added an internal counter which stores the number of times
   you’ve shown each carousel. If you show more than once a carousel, instead of
   showing it another time and breaking StepCarousel and jCarousel, WP Carousel 
   shows an error message.
 * When you call wp_carousel(), this counter is set up. I think you are calling 
   WP Carousel without showing the carousel so you don’t see any carousel, but WP
   Carousel thinks that you have already shown it.
 * You have two ways to solve it: creating a new carousel and disabling the counter.
 * WP Carousel 1.0 brings by default an Extra called Internal Carousel. With this
   Extra you can add to a carousel exactly the same content that is in other carousel.
   Then simply show your new carousel instead of the old one.
 * To disable the counter, open wp-carousel.php and go to line 874. You’ll see the
   following code:
 * `$_SESSION[WP_CAROUSEL_SESSION_VARIABLE_NAME_FOR_CAROUSELS_SHOWN][] = $id;`
 * Comment it or delete the line.
 *  [resonant705](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resonant705/)
 * (@resonant705)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157735)
 * [@sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/) Hello My wp-carousel
   will not pull external images.
    I have it set up to pull images from my shopping
   cart. I also had the Counter error but I fixed that only by commenting out some
   of your code.
 * here is my site… [http://www.crooksncastles.com/testing123](http://www.crooksncastles.com/testing123)
   the carousel is on the lower right just above the footer is is marked featured
   products.
    thank you in advance
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157736)
 * [@resonant705](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resonant705/) I’ve replied
   you [in other topic](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-91?replies=7#post-2213070).
 * Please, if you want help, just open a new topic and I’ll try to solve your problem,
   but do not reply to other topics that are not related with your problem.
 *  [kazwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazwan/)
 * (@kazwan)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157741)
 * Updated to version 1.0 and the whole page disappears.
    [http://www.trimode-malaysia.com.my](http://www.trimode-malaysia.com.my)
 * HELP!
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157742)
 * [@kazwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazwan/): Check [this topic](http://sumolari.com/forums/topic/fatal-error-after-update-to-1-0/).
 *  [kazwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazwan/)
 * (@kazwan)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157743)
 * I’ve seen that topic and tried to resolve it but still no good. I even tried 
   disabling the plug-in but still doesn’t show the page. All disappeared. Can you
   give me a link to download the previous version so that I can use the old version
   one for now? (Version 0.51)++
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157744)
 * [@kazwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazwan/) [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-carousel/download/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-carousel/download/)
 *  [grindflow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grindflow/)
 * (@grindflow)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157790)
 * I’m getting the same error (the one this thread is supposed to be about); however,
   I’ve only displayed the carousel once using the widget (using dynamic widgets
   to isolated the places it appears). Commented out the code above, then deleted
   the carousel… when I go to Add, the carousel reappears. If I click either uninstall
   link, nothing happens either… the page reloads. I had this working perfectly,
   came back to the site to test a form and noticed the error message.
 * Will try uninstalling, deleting associated databases (if left behind), and will
   reinstall. This time commenting out the counter to begin with. If that doesn’t
   work, I’ll try an older version.
 * This seems to be the best plugin available for this function, so I hope that 
   this error gets resolved. Thanks for the contribution to the community.
 *  Thread Starter [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157795)
 * I started this thread weeks ago when an entire page disappeared when I updated
   to WP Carousel 1.0. Today I updated to 1.0.1 on a different site that also uses
   WP Carousel and again the entire site disappeared because, like with the first
   site, I have a carousel on the homepage.
 * In the first case, I have only one carousel on the entire site: on the homepage.
   With the site I updated today I have one carousel on the homepage and one on 
   an internal page, and both pages have disappeared.
 * I rolled back to version 0.5.3 on the first site and now may do the same thing
   for the second site.
 * Any definitive answer as to how to address this and prevent it from happening
   again in the future?
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157796)
 * Unfortunately rolling back to 0.5.3 didn’t work for me either this time. When
   I activate the plugin the entire page disappears. So my carousels are gone.
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157797)
 * [@dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/) Where you using a custom
   WP Carousel Theme?
 * I’m not sure about this because I haven’t checked it, but I think that WordPress
   update system just replaces the entire folder of the plugin with the newest version.
 * I removed some themes in WP Carousel 1.0 because I merged them into others (just
   check the Default theme – it can be configured to look exactly equal to the theme«
   Default – Kubrick»). If you were using one of the removed themes, WP Carousel
   will try to load them, as it thinks they exist, but they don’t, and you should
   get a PHP error like:
 * `Error near line XXX in file NNN [bla bla bla] file /wp-carousel/themes/your-
   theme/index.php can't be loaded`
 * (It is not exactly the error message, but if you read the message you’ll notice
   that WP Carousel can’t load a file, and that that file is a file of an old theme).
 * To fix it you have two solutions:
 * 1) Just change the theme of the carousel that uses a theme that doesn’t exist.
   
   2) Just upload again the theme.
 * If you were using one of the WP Carousel 0.x default themes, you can download
   a previous release and upload the theme.
 * But o.x themes won’t work as expected in 1.x because I made a some changes in
   the theme API and they might fail, so the best thing you can do is upload the
   old theme and then change the theme to one of the newest themes.
 * If you don’t get any error, you probably have disabled PHP error reporting. If
   you enable it you’ll find the error.
 * I might be other problem, but I think the problem is WP-Carousel-theme-related.
 *  Thread Starter [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157799)
 * I did make some modifications to theme files on both sites that I was referring
   to so the problem may relate to that.
 * At this point I think I need to delete WP Carousel altogether from the second
   site and then re-install it and try to get back to where I was in terms of theming.
   Even I create a new carousel in the second site, add test images, and apply ANY
   theme in 1.0.1, 1.0, or 0.5.3 the page the carousel is added to disappears. I
   need to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.
 * Should I manually drop these tables from the database before reinstalling or 
   will deleting the plugin take care of this?:
    wp_carousel_backup widget_wp_carousel_widget
   wp_carousel wp_carousel_config
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157800)
 * WP Carousel 1.0.x includes a link in the menu that allows you to remove all the
   content generated by the plugin.
 * WP Carousel doesn’t use new tables in the database: it uses WordPress options
   to store the content, so it is easier to uninstall the plugin through the Uninstall
   menu.
 * You can also change the name of the WordPress options where WP Carousel stores
   its content, so a solution could be changing the name of the option where WP 
   Carousel stores the configuration of each carousel (by default `wp_carousel_config`).
   Just open wp-carousel.php with a text editor and look for `wp_carousel_config`.
   You’ll find a line like:
 * `define('WP_CAROUSEL_CONFIG_TABLE', 'wp_carousel_config');`
 * Note that when you update to a newer version, this modification should be performed
   again.
 *  Thread Starter [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-10-update/#post-2157801)
 * Thanks for the info. I uninstalled the plugin and re-installed 1.0.1 with the
   plan to use and customize a new theme.
 * I haven’t done the theme work yet, but I re-created my slideshow with 16 slides
   and have ordered them four times, saving many times along the way, yet the order
   of the slides changes when I start changing the theme settings. Any way to stop
   this from happening?
 * I appreciate your work but I’m getting exhausted working with this.

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