[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Error on Activation

  • thestudiokid

    (@thestudiokid)


    15 years, 4 months ago

    Hi.
    Here’s the skinny: I’m up to date with 3.0.4 and am having trouble getting the calendar installed. When I go to activate it, I get the following:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/gneurath/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar.class.php on line 795

    My theme is a slightly modified version of the Weaver 2010.

    A little background: I’m running a mirror of my site on a different shared server so I can test/tweak themes and plugins before I put them into production. The mirror has the EXACT same server profile and configs. PHP, MySQL, APACHE, etc, are all identical in version and configuration. The only difference in the configuration of WordPress is that the mirror runs a child theme, the publicly viewable site doesn’t yet.

    What’s strange is that the Events Calendar installs and works just fine on the mirror, but not on the public site. I’ve gone through the configs, plugins (and their versons) with a pretty fine toothed comb and can’t find anything that might cause this. I even tried reverting the mirror site back to the original theme to see what happens: it still installs just fine on the mirror.

    I can’t get the calendar to install on the public site, even when I deactivate all but the essential plugins.

    My limited troubleshooting: I’m not a programmer and don’t have a code editor, but after finding Line 795, this is what I came up with.

    $base = str_replace( trailingslashit( get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) ), ”, $url );

    The ‘siteurl’ led me to consider how I have the domain set up. I have an .htaccess redirect set up to refer requests from the root web directory on my server to “root/wp” folder. I don’t know if this is relevant or not, just wanted to get all the info posted here.

    Any ideas?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

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  • Thread Starter thestudiokid

    (@thestudiokid)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Update: Thinking it may have something to do with how the “WordPress Address” and “Site Address” are configured, I eliminated my root .htaccess and configured a new one per the instructions on putting WordPress in the root directory of the web server vs having it in a sub directory.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    No change. It still won’t install.

    jalone

    (@jalone)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    i got the same problem. same wp version. see few post above.

    im a programmer, i colud find the error, but i have really few time available to find it out.

    my installation is directly on the root directory if can helps.

    Ymmmot

    (@ymmmot)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Same problem here! Can anybody help???

    jalone

    (@jalone)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    please!

    whenis

    (@whenis)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    same here.
    Deactivated the plugin temporarily to try solve another problem, but trying to reactivate caused a “fatal error”

    Guys, looks like this problem has been around for a few days now, how do we progress this??

    Thread Starter thestudiokid

    (@thestudiokid)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    The work-around is changing the permalinks back to default.

    From the WordPress Dashboard>Settings>Permalinks the set to “default.”

    The bug doesn’t seem to be consistent either. I manage a few different wordpress sites, one of them has custom links, the other not. The only differences between them are the plugins, they even run a different version of the same theme. This works on one, but not the other…. of course the one I really need it to work on is the one where it won’t.

    I have posts already scheduled out to August. Beware, if you have pre-scheduled posts in place as I do, when you install this plugin, it will cause those not to show. There still in the database and the numbers are right where it shows “published, scheduled, drafts, trash.”

    Anything entered AFTER installation of the plugin will show up. Deactivating the plugin brings anything pre-scheduled back. I also found a number of other bugs.

    On another note, I and several others have posted to codecanyon.com where the “pay-for” version of this plugin is located and so far, numerous posts have gone unanswered for several days, if not weeks.

    Personally, I like the functionality of this plugin, but I’m going to avoid this one until the bugs get worked out or the author gets his life in order where he can answer questions and address concerns.

    Ymmmot

    (@ymmmot)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Personally, I like the functionality of this plugin, but I’m going to avoid this one until the bugs get worked out or the author gets his life in order where he can answer questions and address concerns.

    The same I’ll do, too.

    jalone

    (@jalone)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    for what i see probably the error is due to both being the site installed in root and the permalink setting not set on default as thestudiokid sade.

    by the way i’m going to change plugin either, do you know any valid alternative for 3.0.4, even to pay for? them all looks buggy for this version.

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