[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Error after uploading images singly or as zips ('line 385')

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Thanks for the quick reply.

I checked as you suggested: the server settings looked slightly different because I had an older version of the plugin (1.5.5) on the other site. I auto-updated it to 1.6.2, which made the server settings identical for both sites. Then I tried to use NextGen on the other site and got the same error msg: “Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/mattsoar/www.mattsoar.org/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/meta.php on line 385”.

Happy to try other fixes. I am not a programmer, but I checked line 385 in the file meta.php and it says on the line before:

//TODO:Review this, reports sometimes a error “Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference” (PHP 5.2.6)

Best wishes,

Matt

Very interesting, does this appear with any kind of image ? This failure is a couple of times reported, never had the chance to catch it.

Ok. Somehow (I still don’t know how I found this link) – I found a different version of the meta.php file. It was on the Google Code site… but what I had work was cut and pasting this meta.php file into Notepad, saving it and replacing the non-working meta.php file on my site. Remember to save a copy of your old meta.php file in case anything goes wrong!

https://nextgen-gallery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/meta.php

Yes the bug is fixed in the next version…

I have this error showing see
https://www.villadellarosa.com.au/gallery/

I am using V1.8.0 and tried to the change to meta.php to no avail

Please advise

I would say deactivate, remove your plugin. Download the newest version of the plugin from the website, install that.

Should fix your problem.

I found the problem it is my theme