[wp-testers] SimplePie Issues On The Dashboard

[Ryan Boren]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Joseph Scott <joseph at josephscott.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Matt Martz wrote:
>
>> I see from your site that it appears that you are using the lifestream
>> plugin.  The lifestream plugin contains and uses SimplePie.  WP 2.8
>> now includes SimplePie.  Because that plugin and WordPress are both
>> trying to load SimplePie you will get that error.
>
>
>
> I ran into this exact same problem as well.  I ended up adjusting the
> lifestream.php file and replaced:
>
> ----------
> if (!class_exists('SimplePie'))
> {
>    require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/lib/simplepie.inc.php');
> }
> ----------
>
> with:
>
> ----------
> require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-simplepie.php';
> ----------
>
> This just makes the lifestream plugin use the simplepie that ships with WP
> 2.8+

I added a class_exists check to class-feed.php.  Ideally, plugins
should be upgraded to use fetch_feed() so that the WP cache and HTTP
transport is used by SimplePie.