[Plugin: Bei Fen – WordPress Backup Plugin] Bei Fen Error after installation

yes exactly the same problem an hour ago. Any access at all to the plug in produces that exact same fatal error. Be grateful for a quick answer to this one. Thanks

Looks like this is happening because Ben’s feed is down.

FIX:
In /wp-content/plugins/bei-fen/pages/bf-info.php, comment out lines 5-8, e.g.

include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
$rss = fetch_feed('https://www.beifen.info/feed/');
$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5);
$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);

Becomes

// include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
// $rss = fetch_feed('https://www.beifen.info/feed/');
// $maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5);
// $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);

Thank you Bryn. What is the difference in your fix between the “old” and the “becomes” script. They look exactly the same. Or am I being silly here? Rgds chris

The “becomes” section has // at the beginning of every line, which makes your server ignore the code.

Side note: This is a useful lesson for plugin developers – if you’re going to include a feed like this, make sure it fails gracefully!

Hi Peter
Im a dummy for missing that. I feel proper stupid now. Anyways that worked fine thank you. Can I ask you a couple of other questions:

1) what exactly is this backup tool backing up from the following list?
wrdp database?
themes?
plug in?
uploads?
anything else?

2) will it continue to work do you think bearing in mind Ben seems to have gone AWOL on us?

Rgds
Chris

Thanks…it worked perfectly!

In the case the RSS will be up and runing sometime in the future, replace lines 5-8 in /wp-content/plugins/bei-fen/pages/bf-info.php

include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
$rss = fetch_feed('https://www.beifen.info/feed/');
$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5);
$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);

WITH:

include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
			$rss = fetch_feed('https://www.beifen.info/feed/');

			if (!is_wp_error( $rss )){ // Checks that the object is created correctly
				$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5);
				$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
			} else {
				$maxitems = 0;
				$rss_items = array();
			}