Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _verifyactivate_widget()

  • samuelthomson

    (@samuelthomson)


    13 years ago

    Hello, I currently have a domain-based multisite version of wordpress installed with a primary blog (my first WP blog) and a secondary blog (my second WP blog). I want to give each blog a different theme.

    I created the theme for the SECONDARY blog first using the “Bigsquare” WP theme and it works well. Now I want to go back to the primary blog and create a theme based on the “Hybrid Skeleton” theme but I’m having the following problem:

    Whenever I try to activate the “Skeleton” theme I get a message like:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _verifyactivate_widget() (previously declared in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/skeleton/functions.php:52) in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/hybrid/functions.php on line 427

    I’m sure this must have been asked before, but I can’t find the answer: can someone tell me what this message refers to? I imagine it has something to do with widgets, but I’ve tried de-sctivating and re-activating them all and I haven’t yet been able to identify what the problem is, or how to get round it.

    sam

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Okay, that’s good ?? In that it’s the theme and not a hack. So … yeah, wait for Justin. It wasn’t clear that you were using the default trending_child theme since you had smoething else in your error.

    Thread Starter samuelthomson

    (@samuelthomson)

    I don’t know if it is the theme, because the same issue apparently happens with both the BigSquare theme and the Trending theme.

    I hope he gets back to me soon, im pretty much poised to delete everything and start all over again, I have to get my portfolio online tomorrow so I can apply for a particular job.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Do OTHER themes work? Like can you use twentyEleven?

    My thought is that you’ve somehow copied the functions.php from the parent into the child, which is a big no-no.

    Thread Starter samuelthomson

    (@samuelthomson)

    I…I…ok, not sure HOW exactly, but I’ve made some progress somehow…

    I think I did the following in this order:

    – Remove ENTIRE contents of the public_html folder
    – found a saved version of this folder from ages ago and deleted the BigSquare theme from it.
    – uploaded the rest of this folder to public_html
    – installed the Trending parent theme
    – created a new child theme using very basic settings
    – created a 2nd new child theme in a similar way for the 2nd blog
    – activated both of these and tested them
    – downloaded a fresh version of BigSquare
    – activated it for the 2nd blog

    now I seem to have both themes working…

    I guess Ill see if they are both still working after I make some adjustments to the Big Square theme

    thanks for your help, I’m hoping thats it, but I guess I might be back here within the hour

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Do me a huge favor. Stop deleting the whole public_html folder.

    No matter what, unless your whole server was compromised, you never ever have to do that. In fact, we don’t even tell you to do that if you’re hacked, we tell you to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders.

    You’re taking a flamethrower to your creme brule, man.

    You should only have been deleting the wp-content/themes folder, AT MOST, unless you KNOW you made other changes. Why? Because now you may have deleted some of your uploaded images.

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