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umadoshi on "How do you fix a fatal error for Jetpack?"

umadoshi — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:32:09 +0000

Thanks for the reply... I will give it a shot.

If it doesn't work, I will just try to rever back to the initial installation of wordpress.

westi on "How do you fix a fatal error for Jetpack?"

westi — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:22:06 +0000

It looks like your WordPress install is missing or has corrupt versions of some core files.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_file_data() in /home/content/u/m/a/umadoshi/html/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php on line 278

This is for Jetpack trying to call a core WordPress function - get_file_data which is defined in wp-includes/functions.php.

It sounds like during the upgrade of your WordPress install some files got corrupted. The best thing to do is to replace the wp-includes/functions.php file with a new version and see if this resolves the error or a new one appears.

You can do this by downloading the zip file for your WordPress version from here: http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ and then uploading the file using FTP.

umadoshi on "How do you fix a fatal error for Jetpack?"

umadoshi — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:11:09 +0000

I am hosted at GoDaddy.com, and have performed a wordpress update on their system... that might very well be the fatal error... however, the blog was working properly... and now it returns the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_file_data() in /home/content/u/m/a/umadoshi/html/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php on line 278

I have deleted jetpack plugin, downloaded the latest version, and uploaded it to the proper location on the FTP server. The error remains.

I am using CreativeSpark theme.

Here is the code that supposedly is causing the error:

/**
* Load module data from module file. Headers differ from WordPress
* plugin headers to avoid them being identified as standalone
* plugins on the WordPress plugins page.
*/
function get_module( $module ) {
$headers = array(
\'name\' => \'Module Name\',
\'description\' => \'Module Description\',
\'sort\' => \'Sort Order\',
);
$file = Jetpack::get_module_path( Jetpack::get_module_slug( $module ) );
$mod = get_file_data( $file, $headers );
if ( empty( $mod[\'sort\'] ) )
$mod[\'sort\'] = 10;
if ( !empty( $mod[\'name\'] ) )
return $mod;
return false;
}

Thanks for your help...
Blog url: http://www.umadoshi.com