WordPress plugin problems.
Experiencing problems with a new plugin? Here’s hoping that this short post will help by ending your frustration and saving you time. I use a few plugins on this site. All of them were working perfectly before I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 then all of a sudden I couldn’t get the Subscribe2 plugin to work - or should I say that I could not activate it. Each time I tried to activate it, I would get a fatal error message.
I searched all over the place but could not find a solution, then I began reading posts elsewhere where users were having similar problems. Some mentioned that it was due to a conflict between plugins so I decided to investigate down that avenue. I have a duplicate website running on my PC so I deactivated all the plugins then activated the Subscribe2 plugin. Surprisingly it activated without a hitch, so I knew I was on the right track.
One by one I began to activate the other plugins. All but one, the Contact Form ][ plugin, activated perfectly. The familiar fatal error cropped up when I tried to activate this plugin. I then deactivated all the plugins once again and activated then deactivated only these two plugins (Contact Form ][ and Subscribe2) with the result that whichever one was activated first, worked, while the one activated second, came up with the fatal error message.
I needed both these plugins so I emailed their authors explaining the conflict. Hopefully they will be able to correct the problem. I really liked both these plugins. In the meantime I have been trying out a few of the other contact form plugins (I decided to keep the subscribe2 plugin working as I had linked a free E Book give-away to subscribers and needed this plugin to allow people to subscribe. It’s a great book on security, written by experts. So if you want a copy, subscribe! It’s FREE!).
I tried at least three other contact form plugins and they all conflicted with the Subscribe2 plugin. I did find one that did not conflict but it is not exactly what I was looking for, I may use it as a temporary measure until I find the perfect one or a solution to the conflict is found.
P.S. If you find either the contact form or subscribe option not working, please be patient and come back later as I am busy trying to sort the problem out.
Best regards
clive
