Good morning,
I attempted to upgrade my Geodirectory plugin, which was a free, working plugin, to the version 2, as required in order to use the paid services which I purchased (I purchased the full kit of paid add-on subscriptions, for which I may not actually need to upgrade in order to use). I did a full backup of the site first, as well as of the database.
I could not find the WP Easy Updates plugin, as it appears to have been deleted from the WordPress available plugins. So, I pressed the “update now” button on the plugins page instead. It appeared to have updated correctly.
However, when I then click on the “activate” button, I get the following error message: “Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in geodirectory/includes/post-functions.php on line 308”
I looked at line 308, and I don’t know why it would have caused a fatal error. This website is running an older version of php, but cannot be updated without migrating to a new server on our hosting site, so it is stuck at php 5.6. Perhaps this issue is related to the upgrade method itself. I followed the instructions as best I could that are located at https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/upgrade-from-gdv1/
There was no conversion notice, which was called for in Items 3 and 4 of “The Conversion” instructions, so I am unable to actually convert the old version into the new version.
Please tell me how I can fix this issue, if there is a workaround I need to use, or how to fix it. If it cannot be fixed, how can I install the paid plugins into the old V1 version of the Geodirectory, as I will just return to the old plugin, which worked perfectly, I just need to be able to add the paid add-ons to this old plugin.
Either way would be helpful, although of course I would prefer to have the newer version of the plugin. Thank you.
Naveen Giri 4 years, 10 months ago.
