https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/activating-plugin-fauls-causes-fatal-error Gravity Support Forums Topic: Activating plugin fauls - causes fatal error en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:24:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/activating-plugin-fauls-causes-fatal-error#post-121998 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:30:18 +0000 Chris Hajer 121998@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You're welcome. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/activating-plugin-fauls-causes-fatal-error#post-121948 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:31:27 +0000 btozcreative 121948@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That is so strange, but that fixed it. Thanks for the heads up. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/activating-plugin-fauls-causes-fatal-error#post-121851 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:18:11 +0000 Chris Hajer 121851@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It sounds like you have an incomplete copy of the plugin; it appears the gravityforms/widget.php file is missing. Can you delete the plugin folder wp-content/plugins/gravityforms and download a fresh copy, then upload that?</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/downloads/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/downloads/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/activating-plugin-fauls-causes-fatal-error#post-121846 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:35:41 +0000 btozcreative 121846@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm very familiar with the install process - done it dozens of times. This is the first time I've seen this problem.</p> <p>I FTP uploaded Gravity Forums 1.6.11 to WordPress 3.5 site.<br /> I navigated to Plugins and clicked Activate once upload was complete.</p> <p>I received the following message:</p> <blockquote><p>Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.</p> <p>Warning: require_once(/home7/shurethi/public_html/shurefoods/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/widget.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home7/shurethi/public_html/shurefoods/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/gravityforms.php on line 72</p> <p>Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home7/shurethi/public_html/shurefoods/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/widget.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib64/php:/usr/lib/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home7/shurethi/public_html/shurefoods/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/gravityforms.php on line 72 </p></blockquote>