https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/fatal-error-class-rgforms-not-found-on-preview Gravity Support Forums Topic: Fatal error: Class 'RGForms' not found on preview en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:24:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/fatal-error-class-rgforms-not-found-on-preview#post-41738 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:40:22 +0000 Carl Hancock 41738@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The issue going to be wp-content being loaded from a custom location. There are a handful of features in Gravity Forms, the Preview being the primary one, that calls PHP directly and outside of the WordPress admin. Because wp-content is located in a custom location it is then unable to find the wp-load.php. Unfortunately when wp-content has been moved, you then can't execute code the same way when utilizing wp-load this way.</p> <p>The only fix for the preview when you encounter this right now is to edit the preview.php and hardcode the location of the wp-load function. It has to get to the wp-load.php in order to execute and it needs to know where it is.</p> <p>We will be fixing this in an upcoming release. Maybe not in the 1.6.2 release but before 1.7 is released this is something we will be updating. We have to change a variety of functionality to take into account this scenario, including how Preview works.</p> <p>Surprisingly in over 2 years this has only come up as an issue in the last 2 weeks or so. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/fatal-error-class-rgforms-not-found-on-preview#post-41703 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:37:48 +0000 anmari 41703@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Me again - another idea would be to have a draft 'preview' page instead, so that the form could be previewed in the context of the site's theme (and of course WordPress would be fully loaded. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/fatal-error-class-rgforms-not-found-on-preview#post-41702 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:19:55 +0000 anmari 41702@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Fatal error: Class 'RGForms' not found in C:\web\wpbeta\wp\wp-content\plugins\gravityforms\preview.php on line 8</p> <p>I suspect that this maybe because I have wp-content relocated (sideways! :) ). Disappointed that a plugin of gravity forms reputation would cope with that? (Many of my sites have such a structure and most plugins cope.</p> <p>Looking at preview.php it seems it is trying to include wp-load.php.</p> <p>Please see<br /> <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2010/dont-include-wp-load-please/" rel="nofollow">http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2010/dont-include-wp-load-please/</a></p> <p>and further down in the comments there is discussion about better ways of doing what one wants to do where one needs wp_loaded, such as checking for a $_GET parameter on an early action.<br /> Maybe like suggested here: <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2010/dont-include-wp-load-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1936" rel="nofollow">http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2010/dont-include-wp-load-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1936</a></p> <p>This would get around the difficulty in loading the code and still allow you to achieve the preview? </p> <p>In the meantime is there a fix around this ? or else I imagine I have to hardcode the wp-load for now (urg). I have resetup a plain dev wp site for now for testing. </p>