How To Fix FeedWordPress For WordPress 2.7

FeedWordPress is a fantastic plugin, and is a major part of the multiblogging system I will be writing about soon on Blerz. I use it on most of my WordPress sites, and its a part of my default WordPress setup package (also soon to be posted to Blerz).

Update: This has been fixed in the latest version of FeedWordPress. Go download the latest version here

FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress webblog

So you can imagine how annoyed I was when, after upgrading to WordPress 2.7, I discovered that Feedwordpress no longer worked properly. I got a ‘Fatal error: Class ‘Snoopy’ not found in…’ message after activating the plugin. Here’s how to fix Feedwordpress to work with WordPress 2.7:

• Download the latest version of Snoopy from SourceForge and upload it to your host. Make a note of where you uploaded it. The file to upload is Snoopy.class.php
• Download the latest version of Feedwordpress from the developer’s site
• Open Feedwordpress.php in your text editor of choice and do a search for this line: $client = new Snoopy(); – right above that line, add: require_once(”/path-to-snoopy/Snoopy.class.php”); – remember to change path-to-snoopy to the place where you uploaded Snoopy.class.php. Alternately, paste the path that was shown in the ‘Fatal error: Class ‘Snoopy’ not found in…’ message you got after activating Feedwordpress.