URGENT – Fatal Error With News Thme

[ponics]

Genesis 1.91 + WP 3.5 + Latest News Child Theme

I was posting a post using a shortcode from wp-filebase. Never have any issues. Than suddently this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_active_sidebar() in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/genesis-widgetized-footer/genesis-widgetized-footer.php on line 462 

Deactivated the plugin than this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_active_sidebar() in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/structure/layout.php on line 94

than tried to deactivate all plugin - on the plugin pages I got this

Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/blueplan/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-dropbox-upload-form/inc/wpsdbClass.php on line 34 and defined in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 990

and on the home page I got this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_active_sidebar() in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/structure/layout.php on line 94

reactivated the News Theme

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_active_sidebar() in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/themes/news/home.php on line 10

Bottom line with  plugin activated or deactivated it is the same!

Any ideas suggestions!

Site is at http://theplanetfixer.org

Roger

 

 

[Gary Jones]

You can help the Simple Dropbox authors, by the error message specific to that plugin to them, and pointing them to http://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/12/12/php-warning-missing-argument-2-for-wpdb-prepare/

I'll nudge David here to help with the original widgetized footer plugin.

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WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ

[David Decker]

@GaryJ
Thanks for pointing out!

@ponics
I am the author of the "Genesis Widgetized Footer" plugin. I just wanted to reproduce your error(s) but was not able to do so, also not with WP_DEBUG on.

Since the function in the error message regarding my plugin is a native WP function I currently couldn't do much to help you as I am maybe not knowing all specifics of your install. Since the same function is in the message with Genesis itself I assume it must be another issue.

Also if it may sound crazy to you, maybe re-uploading a fresh WordPress package could help. Do it via FTP, existing files could be overriden then. Also, deleting the plugin folders of wp-filebase and that dropbox plugin could help. After deleting try to access the Plugins backend page at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php

I hope this helps a tiny bit for now.
-Dave.

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[David Decker]

@ponics:
Did you have one of the following plugins active in your install?
- Sidebar Manager Light
- Widget Manager Light
- Widgetize Pages Light

These plugins were manipulating the core (!) function "is_active_sidebar".

If that's the case with your install then this is the cause of your issues. You then should go to the plugin pages on WordPress.org to see their update/install instructions (important!).

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[ponics]

Thank you to all!

I just renamed the plugin folder, changed back to a basic WP theme that comes with the package. It then works! I renamed again everything but deleted as much as trouble maker plugin and in particularly, as suggested by @david, the Widgetize Pages Light.

Thanks to all again!

Roger

 

 

[David Decker]

Awesome, Roger! I am so glad for you!

The funny thing about this issue is: some month ago I've already had conversion with the plugin dev company of the 3 mentioned that modified core files: I telled them they should stop this behaviour, sadly, they needed months for this important fix, and caused so much pain for all users, devs etc. involved.

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