Title: WP-Slimstats Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP-Slimstats Problem

 *  Resolved [ptvguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptvguy/)
 * (@ptvguy)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/)
 * I’ve was setting my site set up and decided to install wp-slimstats for some 
   basic blog stats. However, after I activated this plugin and went to view the
   new stats, I received the following error:
 * > Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: cachedfilereader in /home/
   > httpd/vhosts/ptvguy.com/httpdocs/wp-includes/wp-l10n.php on line 67
 * I went back and deactivated it, but now the whole site is messed up. The main
   page still looks fine, but clicking links to pages, individual posts, comments,
   categories, all gets me a 404 error. These all worked fine before. I’m using 
   the Regulus 2.1.3 theme if that makes any difference.

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 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387953)
 * Any chance it did something to your .htaccess file?
 *  Thread Starter [ptvguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptvguy/)
 * (@ptvguy)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387956)
 * I didn’t even think of that one. I just went and checked and discovered that 
   the .htaccess file was completely removed. I put it back, and now even the home
   page displays that same fatal error. I tried removing the .htaccess again from
   the server, but the fatal error still shows up on the home page now. Whatever’s
   wrong is getting worse.
 * Addendum: I just reactivated and deactivated the slimstat plugin and got my home
   page back, but the link problems with the 404 errors are still the same. I would
   just remove all the slimstat components from my plug-in directory, but I think
   that part of the activation, included some additions to the database.
 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387958)
 * Yeah, I don’t have much expirience with slimstat, but it does have some issues.
   You might try contacting the developer (I think it’s Shaun Inman, but I can’t
   remember)
 *  Thread Starter [ptvguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptvguy/)
 * (@ptvguy)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387971)
 * Thanks, anyway, Resiny. As it turns out, that exact error was covered in the 
   README text file that came with the plugin. I know, it’s the first place I should
   have looked.
 * For the curious, you have to open wp-config.php and find this line:
 *  define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
 * and replace it with this line:
 *  define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en_US’);
 * Then you have to open the “lang” folder that came with wp-slimstats and rename
   the file from wp-slimstat-en_US.mo to just en_US.mo. That gets slimstats working.
 * However, the rest of the problem (pages, posts, etc. giving 404 errors) is still
   there. Perhaps it wasn’t related to slimstats.
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387972)
 * It’s not Shaun. He wrote the original code for short stat, but slim stat is a
   fork. I don’t think the author of slimstat wrote the plugin either. The original
   script can be found here [http://wettone.com/code/slimstat](http://wettone.com/code/slimstat)
   and can be used as a stand alone install, with some code in your WP footer (or
   header) to track the stats.
 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387979)
 * ah…
 * ptvguy: thanks for doing that. Too often people never post what was actually 
   wrong, so people with the same problem come along searching, find all these threads,
   but never actually find the solution. If everyone did this we’d probably have
   fewer people unable to find solutions.
 *  Thread Starter [ptvguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptvguy/)
 * (@ptvguy)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-slimstats-problem/#post-387983)
 * Well, let me go one better on that, because miklb just answered the other part
   of the problem in another thread. ([http://wordpress.org/support/topic/72243?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/72243?replies=3))
   It seems that if you rename a page title and the slug no longer matches the title,
   it throws everything off. I had to go through my page titles, find the one I 
   renamed, rewrite the slug to match the new name, and {Viola!} everything’s fixed
   and working now. I think that I’m going to like these forums.

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