BROKEN with the WordPress 4.7 update
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Causes errors to appear on every admin page.
FeedWordPressHTTPAuthenticator::set_auth_options() expected to be a reference, value given in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 300
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Hey all, so, I’m working on a fix for the problem this weekend. I need to do some testing and will then push all needed fixes out with a new official release on the WordPress plugins repository.
It looks like the issue is that WP 4.7 introduced a new call to the http_api_curl hook, which FeedWordPress attaches itself to in order to implemenet some advanced options for HTTP authentication when retrieving feeds. That’d be fine but the handling of referencing parameters is incosnistent between the two calls to that hook, so in one case the relevant method in one of FeedWordPress’s classses is being called without the parameter being referenced as it expected it to be. So I made a small tweak very similar to @garymarkfuller and confirmed that it seemed to solve the issue on at least one site that was having this issue in the wild. While I was there I also removed a deprecated-file warning that also came along with the WP 4.7 upgrade. If you feel comfortable grabbing a development version from Github and testing it out, the fixes appear on the master branch at https://github.com/radgeek/feedwordpress/
If you install the development version and successfully install it, let me know if it solves the problem for you. The fix makes a minor change that affects a function that FWP uses to set HTTP authentication options; so if you use HTTP Authentication (especially if you use HTTP Digest Authentication) to retrieve any of those feeds, you should make sure to double-check those feeds and confirm that FWP can still successfully fetch them without any negative side-effects. If you happen to have a set-up that allows you easily to test this with feeds you retrieve using HTTP Authentication, please feel free to get in touch with me here or via e-mail at <[email protected]> to let me know what you’re seeing; it’d be very helpful in allowing me to confirm that the fix works as expected.
HOWEVER, if as @cogdog suggests there are negative side-effects for other related add-ons like SIC ‘Em or Add Attribution, you may want to be cautious about proceeding with the test if you use either of those problems. I’ll be testing the other add-ons this weekend also and hopefully we can get these issues ironed out soon.
@cogdog , could you send me the text of the fatal errors you’re seeing from the other plugins, either here or via e-mail? I’ll be able to take a look at these later this afternoon.
ATTENTION! New Version breaks complete site when < WP 4.7
In my case, it’s 4.6.1, @radgeek
@radgeek – here’s the error in PHP:
[11-Dec-2016 18:32:57 UTC] PHP Warning: require_once(/var/www/webroot/wp/wp-includes/class-wp-feed-cache.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/webroot/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php on line 100
[11-Dec-2016 18:32:57 UTC] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/var/www/webroot/wp/wp-includes/class-wp-feed-cache.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/webroot/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php on line 100I’m on WordPress 4.5.4.
class-wp-feed-cache.php is new to 4.7
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