[Plugin: WP Photo Album Plus] Latest Update causing Fatal Error

Updated and got 588 error.
Copy and pasted fix as per sant0sk1 ‘s post
Now getting 589 line error.
Pls help.
Many thanks.

Ok, I see people talking about fixing the code. I haven’t done any code editing with WordPress at all (in fact that’s the whole appeal of it). So with this problem I am unable to look at the /wp-admin of my page to even ‘think’ about editing code. Can someone step by step me on what i need to do to get my website back in running order? Please ??
-Wolflare-

Wow, thanks so much. My site is back up again.

Wolflare. Here is how I did mine, I’m not good at this stuff either and there may be a better way.

I FTP’d into my site (you should have ftp info from your provider. A free good ftp program is Filezilla) and copied that file to my computer. I downloaded a free program called notepad ++ to edit the file. It numbers the lines and formats it correctly. I made the change as listed above and then moved the file back to my site using the ftp program.

ok fixed my issue.
had to comment out the actual line in the file itself manually , not via the WordPress dashboard as it wasn’t working correctly.
When commented out all works fine.

I found this issue as well while doing tech support for a hosting company that has a lot of wordpress sites hosted so we saw the problem a few times today. The solution above is perfect but if you would like to see a little more detail about the issue, I put a tutorial for it at
https://www.caswellwebcreations.com/wp-photo-album-plus-error-after-upgrade

Dcaswell, I am so excited to be so close to actually fixing this issue thanks to your tutorial. BUT here’s my hang up:

I was able to log into my FTP via my web host, and thanks to your tutorial I was guided to the problem area of the code. I thought i was just a copy/paste away from the final fix… but i am just ‘looking’ at code where i am. I don’t know what to do to actually edit said code… ??

Wolflare. I just deleted the line 588. I didn’t copy and paste at all.

Is there going to be an update? I do not see any reply from the devleoper

Nicely done! Commented out line 588 and back up and running! Thanks

Copy and paste or delete a line, either should work. the problem is that the code as i am viewing it is not editable.

It’s no more editable than me just viewing words on someone else’s website. it’s selectable, but I don’t know how to edit this information. perhaps i am not viewing it in the right way/place.

What Operating system are you running on? What permissions does the file have? Maybe you need to contact your hosting provider to figure out why you don’t have read/write access to your files.

sant0sk1 method works fine but there’s still a problem in that various links are redirecting to Home Page. OpaJaap we need a fix!

our host is IPower. I should have full admin access. I clicked on a button labeled FTP. It then led me to a page that said “To access your account using an FTP client, you need to connect to https://ftp.mywebsite.com (my website name appearing in place of ‘mywebsite’) with your FTP username and password.

Did so and it opened a new tab with “Index of /” at the top with some folders listed below. I clicked my way through the folders to find the one from Dcaswell’s tutorial and clicked on the wppa-common-functions.php button. New tab opened and code a plenty appears. But it’s just to view the code. there is no editing it there.

Does that help explain my scenario any better?

Others were talking about downloading and uploading… I don’t know what to do differently.

(feeling like the slow kid over here as everyone else shows up and has this fixed in no time with no problems lol)

Wolflare. I used a program called Filezilla to connect to my website. With that you can drag and drop files from your site to your computer.

Once on your computer you can edit it with wordpad or download a program called notepad ++ which will number the lines to make it easier to find the line that needs to be changed.

Once you delete/copy and paste or whatever. Save the file and drag and drop it back to your site.

Before overwriting the file on your site I would rename it to wppa-common-functions.old or something. You can do this by right clicking the file from Filezilla.

Hope that helps some.

Thanks for that! Worked like a charm for me, too.

-Su