Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare get_avatar_url()

Same problem here. After WordPress got updated to 4.2 I got this error and don’t know how to fix it please help.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_avatar_url() (previously declared in /home2/victory/public_html/wp-includes/link-template.php:3414) in /home2/victory/public_html/wp-content/themes/ninezeroseven/functions.php on line 807

coding:
function get_avatar_url($get_avatar){
preg_match(“/src='(.*?)’/i”, $get_avatar, $matches);
return $matches[1];
}

That’s a theme issue – see the post here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/read-this-first-%E2%80%93-wordpress-42-master-list?replies=5#post-6860958

you can just remove the code related to avatar

I did this and the site work again

Someone did, and they posted a fix too. ??

Give this a read.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/read-this-first-%e2%80%93-wordpress-42-master-list?replies=5&view=all#post-6860958

See the part that says “Fatal Error with Cannot redeclare get_avatar url()”, follow those instructions.

I had the same problem yesterday with the 4.2.1 update.
I only commented the function in the functions.php file and everything go back to normality.

Thank you Jan Dembowski, your post was the most useful.

Look into your functions.php file in your theme and delete these lines

// get gravatar URL
	function get_avatar_url( $get_avatar ) {
	    preg_match("/src='(.*?)'/i", $get_avatar, $matches);
	    return $matches[1];
	}

Hi Rafal. Thank you so much. It really helped me fix the bug. ?? Great help!

THANKS A LOT!!! This really helped and WORKED! I’ve just commented on the lines :

/*function get_avatar_url($get_avatar){
preg_match(“/src='(.*?)’/i”, $get_avatar, $matches);
return $matches[1];
}*/

And VOI-LA! Website back on track !!!
Cheers!

Thanks for the post rafadizeo. The get_avatar code line which caused my issues in the function.php file read like:

function get_avatar_url( $id_or_email, $args = null ) {
	$args = get_avatar_data( $id_or_email, $args );
	return $args['url'];
}

and I changed to:

/*function get_avatar_url( $id_or_email, $args = null ) {
	$args = get_avatar_data( $id_or_email, $args );
	return $args['url'];
}*/

Everything seems to working ok since the change, and I can access my website again. Happy days ??