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1. Andy says:

   June 22, 2006 at 5:21 pm

   Hi there. Thank you first of all for such a great plugin but since changing from using the Regulus 2.0 theme to Hemingway I’ve been unable to get my sideblog back up and running. It keeps telling me I haven’t set the category but I have.

   Can you tell me which specific plugins are clashing with it, as I’ve installed some new ones recently along with Hemingway. I really would like to get Sideblog back up and running. Perhaps I could delete all references to it in the database and reinstall? Would that work? And if it might, do you know what I’d need to wipe from the database to ensure no trace of Sideblog existed in order to try starting over?

   Andy x
2. Andy says:

   June 22, 2006 at 7:05 pm

   I found a link on your site to version 2.0 and so I simply uninstalled version 3.0, ran the old plugin and everything is working as it did with my old theme but without the customisation elements, obviously, which you introduced with the later version. Still, I don’t personally need them and what’s working now is just fine. You might want to raise the profile of 2.0 for those who have probs with 3.0 to try – it took me some searching through comments to find the download link you gave for the earlier version.

   Thanks for all your hard work. It is appreciated.
3. Kates Gasis says:

   June 23, 2006 at 3:00 pm

   @Andy:

   Only one plugin I know of that conflicts with Sideblog. The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin uses the same hook_where function that breaks any (or both) of the plugins. I just installed UTW and is trying to figure out to make sideblog work side by side UTW. I can’t ignore those UTW users as tagging is really very popular now.
4. Andy says:

   June 30, 2006 at 8:39 pm

   Hi again. Version 2.0 went and broke on me after a few days. I am aside-less.

   I’m going to give version 3.0 another try; such are the foibles of technology, you never know, it might work now. If it doesn’t, I’ll keep an eye for your next release.

   I don’t use UTW. With Sideblog 2.0 what happened was I noticed the plugin was showing as deactivated, which was weird because I hadn’t made it so. It was supposed to be activated. When I tried to reactivate it, I couldn’t even access my blog – said something about it couldn’t ‘redeclare’. Only when I removed the plugin completely from the directory on my server could I get my site to come back.

   I’ve got lots of plugins, though, all of them in use in one way or another. Just not UTW.
5. Andy says:

   June 30, 2006 at 8:46 pm

   Just tried with version 3.4. No luck, same error this time.

   Here’s what I get when I try to activate and what replaces my blog until I remove the plugin completely from the directory:

   Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sideblog_where() (previously declared in /home/spichin2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/quotes.php:15) in /home/spichin2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sideblog.php on line 15

   This is weird. I don’t have, and never have had a plugin called ‘quotes.php’. Not anywhere, let alone in that directory. Ever. Any idea what’s going on and what I could try? I mean, I’m willing to go into the sql database to remove all traces of the sideblog plugin, then try again, but I’d need to know what to look for and where? Any help you can give is appreciated.
6. Andy says:

   June 30, 2006 at 9:27 pm

   Back. Gets weirder. I searched the sql database for all sideblog entries, carefully deleted them having backed up first. Admin was a bit mangled but permalinks refresh sorted it out and then I had to switch all my plugins back on; the change must have turned ‘em all off.

   I reinstalled version 3.0. It didn’t break my blog but it gave that ‘asides category not selected’ error. I removed the plugin, went back to version 2.0 – and lo, it works again!

   Thing is, I deactivated Sideblog 3.4 before removing the php file from my server plugin directory. When I put version 2.0 in there I didn’t have to activate it – it activated without me! I’m fingers crossed it continues to work.
7. Kates Gasis says:

   July 1, 2006 at 6:32 am

   @Andy:

   Wow, I didn’t know how much havoc my plugin caused your blog. But yes, if v2.0 works for you just use it. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Good thing you mentioned something which cleans traces of uninstalled plugin in the database. Might as well make a plugin that does just that.