says webcomic not installed when it is

[tehandeh]

basically out of the blue wordpress just started saying webcomic wasnt installed or activated when its clearly activated. i'm using inkblot theme if it matters. not sure if this is due to the last wordpress update or not.

[mgsisk]

Strange… I'm not aware of any issues with recent versions of WordPress. Can you confirm that the plugin exists at wp-content/plugins/webcomic and that – at the very least – a webcomic.php file exists?

Edited to denote the correct plugin location.

[tehandeh]

it only appears in wp-content/plugins/webcomic is that a problem?

[mgsisk]

Nope, sorry; that's actually the correct location (it's been a long day…).

So the plugin and all it's files are definitely there, but WordPress isn't showing it in the Plugin's list? Or it's in the plugin list and activated, but none of the related Webcomic pages (collection post lists, Settings > Webcomic page, etc.) are showing up in the admin dashboard?

[tehandeh]

its activated, settings shows up but in page editor when i select one of the webcomic templates it says webcomic isnt installed or activated

[mgsisk]

Ah, ok; I think I understand now. It sounds like this is actually an Inkblot issue, where you're selecting one of Inkblot's Webcomic-specific templates but it thinks Webcomic isn't even installed. Interesting; I'll try to look into this tonight. My guess is it's a really stupid bug in Inkblot that's causing the issue.

[mgsisk]

Can't seem to replicate this on my dev box, but it sounds like Inkblot's functions.php might be loading before Webcomic somehow, at least when you're editing a page.

If Webcomic is definitely installed and activated, you can try opening up /inkblot/-/php/tags.php and changing the webcomic() function so that it always returns true; that should force all of Inkblot's Webcomic-related features – including page template options – to work.

[tehandeh]

this never did work for me. and now I did the latest upgrade and when I went to activate I got this error

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Webcomic in /home1/pinkard/public_html/teabeer.tehandeh.com/wp-content/plugins/webcomic-4.3.3/webcomic.php on line 34

[mgsisk]

Thanks for the update @tehandeh. It looks like the newest version is being put in directory called webcomic-4.3.3, which is not correct. Did you update through WordPress (e.g. via the Dashboard > Updates page or the Plugins page) or manually?

[tehandeh]

i did it via the dash

[mgsisk]

Hm… that is super weird. Would you mind if I took a look at your site directly? The update issue definitely shouldn't be happening, and I'm not really sure why Inkblot is flipping out either.

If you like, setup an admin account for me on your site (please don't give me your login information) and email the details to me at help@mgsisk.com

[tehandeh]

no probs. email has been sent!

[mgsisk]

Thanks @tehandeh. It looks like Webcomic 4.3.3 got installed ok. As a temporary fix for the template options issue, I updated Webcomic's main webcomic.php file and added a webcomic() function there that always returns true.

Still trying to figure out exactly what's causing webcomic() to return false… it might be related to the Inkblot child theme, but it should work based on how everything is setup…

[tehandeh]

thanks so much! I originally was using inkblot then tried Archimedes and finally my own child theme.. it looked at first to get, but then the error would return within the hour. which was weird cuz I hadn't added anything new when it happened