I installed photosmash on our blog and once the plugin is activated, I get the error only on pages, but not on posts, categories, etc

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in
/path/to/wp-includes/query.php on line 27

I haven't tried the beta version, using 0.8.00

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Byron,

Thanks for the follow-up.

I ssh'd in and rm -rf'd photosmash directory, removed all the photosmash tables from the DB and reinstalled via WP. Previously had ftp'd the .zip and unzipped via command line.

Unfortunately, no luck. I went through each plugin and deactivated them one by one, but in every case the error, only on pages, not cats or posts, was triggered if photosmash was activated.

I will have to replicate the environment on a non-production server to do some more extensive testing. If I find anything I will let you know.... we really want to use your plugin!

Using 2.9.2.

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Bryon,

Found the problem.

I often use the PageofPosts code in my pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

It appears that unsetting the default $wp_query is the culprit

$temp = $wp_query;  // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
  $wp_query = null;
  $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);

the code there attempts to reset the original query later on with

$wp_query = $temp;

but that doesn't work with photosmash.

Putting the default query in $temp, then resetting it always felt like a crude hack. This one seems to be WP's fault as I can just as easily achieve the desired result of PageOfPosts by using $temp as such

$args=array(...);
  $temp = new WP_Query($args);
  if( have_posts() ) :
		while ($temp->have_posts()) : $temp->the_post();
               ....
                endwhile;
   unset($temp);

Not sure what the long term solution is, but I fear anyone using Photosmash with the PageOfPosts code will run into the same issue.

Thanks
Chris

p.s. Now I get to go play with Photosmash!