Title: upgrading error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# upgrading error

 *  [kc-korp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kc-korp/)
 * (@kc-korp)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-error/)
 * Hi please help me, I was using my wordpress 2.0.4 and I tried to upgrade it to
   2.2 with my cpanel in Fantastico, I did the autoinstallation and now I have this
   2 errors
    —————————————————————
 * Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/kckorp/public_html/
   naruto-ninja/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 495
    ————————————————————- WordPress
   database error: [Unknown column ‘link_count’ in ‘where clause’] SELECT cat_ID
   FROM wp_categories WHERE category_parent = 0 AND ( link_count = 0 OR category_count!
   = 0 OR ( link_count = 0 AND category_count = 0 ) ) ORDER BY category_count DESC
 * Please help me could you tell me what should I do, I’m very sad and scary ^^*
   do you think this could be fixed? T.T
 * Thank you ToT

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-error/#post-575106)
 * Try disabling plugins, in particular the SideBar Widget plugin if you have that.
 * Widgets are native to 2.2 so delete all files related to the widget plugin.
 *  [jologe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jologe/)
 * (@jologe)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-error/#post-575576)
 * Hi..
    I have the same problem, well only the first error above,
 * Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in …/wp-includes/widgets.php
   on line 495
 * But I don´t use any widgets on my page, anyway, I delete all the plugins, and
   upgrade again, and show the same error..
 * How I can fix this?
 * if somebody can help me, I would like to thank you in advance

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-error/#post-575576)
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