Title: Plugin: Popularity Contest
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin: Popularity Contest

 *  [jhayrocas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhayrocas/)
 * (@jhayrocas)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popularity-contest-1/)
 * I found in my error log file the following message:
 * > [01-Apr-2009 05:51:08] PHP Fatal error: require() [[function.require](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popularity-contest-1/function.require?output_format=md)]:
   > Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/
   > usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/jrocasco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-
   > contest.php on line 59
 * I checked out plugin file for Popularity Plugin version 1.3b3 line 59 (highlighted
   as bold):
 *     ```
       58 if (!isset($wpdb)) {
       59	require('../wp-blog-header.php');
       60	akpc_init();
       }
       ```
   
 * Is this a serious issue? Would this cause excessive server load? How can this
   be fixed?
 * Much thanks everyone!

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 * Last reply from: [jhayrocas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhayrocas/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popularity-contest-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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