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I am marking this issue as resolved.
If however at some time the member becomes active again and the issue still exists, don't hesitate to reopen it and post an update on your current status.

Cheers!
Ari.

Hey there.

Did you read the usage tab:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/recent-global-author-posts-feed/#usage

It gives you the instructions you need for this. There are no settings, you just have the feed link.

Take a look and if you get stuck then feel free to ask questions so we can help.

Taka care.

Hopefully I am replying in the proper manner now. My host moved the file but there isn't a way to activate it. Are we missing something?

Is there something we are missing in order to activate the plugin?

This is my host's message to me: "I moved the file but there isn't a way to activate it."

Thank you!

Also as noted from those instructions which Joe recommended, you put the file in the wrong place.

/home/womenpar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php

It actually goes in:

/home/womenpar/public_html/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php

That's the reason for the fatal error.

Cheers.

Thank you! I will let my host know so she can install the additional plugin.

Greetings jerrilynn_b__thomas,

Welcome to WPMU DEV!

Sorry to see that you are having an issue with the Global Author Posts Feed and it appears that you have not installed the Post Indexer plugin as indicated in the Global Author Posts Feed plugins instructions.

Please advise if this is indeed the circumstance.

Look forward to hearing from you in any event.

Cheers, Joe

I received the following message when trying to activate the plugin:
global-author-posts-feed-2.3

Warning: require_once(../wp-load.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/womenpar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../wp-load.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/womenpar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30

How do I rectify the problem? My current MU installation is WordPress 3.5.1.

Auto Resolved.

Thank you so much, Timothy. I moved the file and will check it out.

Cheers! :)

Hey there.

Looking at the errors it is indeed looking for a file which isn't in the right path, it's because this file:

recent-global-author-posts-feed.php

Needs to be uploaded to:

/wp-content/

and not:

/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/recent-global-author-posts-feed/#usage

If you can move it to the /wp-content/ folder you should be fine.

Take care.

Hi again!

This newbie is keeping you on your toes! LOL

Sorry, but I have something else to report. The installed plugin Global Author post feed cannot be activated because of a fatal error. Here is the message I got:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Warning: require_once(../wp-load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/bosoraweb063/b1343/ipg.soulfulwriter/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '../wp-load.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php-5.3.13/lib/php') in /hermes/bosoraweb063/b1343/ipg.soulfulwriter/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30

Now, you might say, "well, it's looking for a file under soulfulwriter/wp-content NOT soulfulwriters (with an "s" at the end) but the other plugins have been activated OK under soulfulwriters/wp-content since soulfulwriter is no longer a directory or URL (although it's the main domain I opened the hosting account with) because I changed it to my other domain soulfulwriters.com, which is set up at root level as the network kahuna. So, because the other guys have not had a problem activating, I infer that something in this plugin must have triggered the fatal error. You are the geniuses so you will know best why this baby doesn't want to walk.

Kind regards,

Barbara

@qlikco sorry it took me a while to get back to you. Basically with the feed style plugins you just copy the .php file only upto the content folder.

as long as you have installed the indexer as mentioned in the usage tabs you are good to go.

There are very few plugins that don't work the standard way when it comes to installs. But all of them have the install process documented in the usage tab if there is something different than the normal install.

But anytime you are not sure, don't worry just drop a question here and one of us will get back to you asap

Tom, I appreciate your expertise, however this should be made clearer to the end users.
As a super admin, I put total faith in the WPMUDEV dashboard which enables me to install plugins. I assume that there is no fiddling about with folders and FTP upload....otherwise this should be specified up-front.

What do I have to put in the wp-content folder: the whole plugin folder (eg: recent-global-author-posts-feed) or some of its contents, such as .php file.

Furthermore, there are other plugins showing similar behaviours (eg: tag feed, recent-global-comments-feed, recent-global-posts-feed, post-indexer): what shall I do with these: copy the entre plugin folder to wp-content or some of its contents only, such as the .php file.

Thank you for your support.
QlikCo

@qlikco hey there again :p

So did you follow this step

This plugin MUST be uploaded to /wp-content/ using FTP this isn't a standard plugin it's a feed generator and these site in the wp-content root folder.

cheers tom

Hello, I hope that you are all good!
I have tried to install the following plugin on my WP Multisite (latest version). This is the error message I get:

Warning: require_once(../wp-load.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/qlikco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30

Please advise. Thank you.
QlikCo

Hey there, hope you are well!

Just checking in to see how things are going and if you need further assistance.

If you do then please feel free to reopen this thread or create a new one.

Take care and have a fantastic day!

That is a real RSS feed. It uses the WordPress system to generate a XML feed and that is how that feed is formated.

I wonder if some readers don't pick it up because of the date there was a publication last made. Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:15:08 +0000

Perhaps make a new post and then try again?

let me know.

I want to bring the "Global Author Posts Feed" Adress to the people, the problem ist, that the URL is a PHP Adress. The built-in RSS Reader of Wordpress can read it, but "outside" I have not found any reader, who can read this adress as a real RSS Feed and I always get a 404 Failure back!

On my site it looks this way:
http://domain.com/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=2

How can I force the Plugin to transform the feed into a real and working RSS Feed? Perhaps an update by WPMU Dev would be very useful!

Has anyone else this problem and found a solution?

Excellent glad to see that is now resolved! :)

After a long search I solved the problem after I found out that a plugin (Plugin Performance Profiler) was the causes of the problem! So I removed it and everything works find now.

thank you very much for your assistance!

Ya as you noticed the original issue was due to not being installed correctly in /wp-content/

For this new error, I was just testing on my own install and it seems to work just fine.

I'm don't believe this is the plugin as your normal RSS feeds are just the same:

domain.com/feed/

Please enable the default Twenty Eleven theme and then test again. You can also test with all plugins disabled to ensure there is no conflict there.

The error usually happens when there is an extra space somewhere I believe.

Let me know how you go.

Solved the problem of the error message, but got another one! You can see it in the picture, there it is shown what you see on the widget itself.

When I type in:
http://domain.com/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=2

I get the following message:

"This page contains the following errors:

error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error."

Anyone an idea?

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Greetings together!

I used the plugin for a longer while in my WPMU installation, for maintrance it shut it off, as I wanted to reacrivate it, I got this error message:

Warning: require_once(../wp-load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/http/lakajira.com/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '../wp-load.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /srv/http/lakajira.com/wp-content/plugins/recent-global-author-posts-feed/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php on line 30

Has anyone an idea what is happening there? Can anyone help me?

Gerrit

Now its working properly... thanks!

I've updated those instructions now. :-)

1. Install the Post Indexer
2. Download the Recent Global Author Posts Feed plugin file
3. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
4. Upload recent-global-author-posts-feed.php to /wp-content/

Thanks.

Saying that, they appear to have been changed to be incorrect. You need to copy the recent-global-author-posts-feed.php to wp-content directory. It shouldn't be in the plugins directory.

Please read the installation instructions for this plugin, the files go in non-standard locations.