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With the most recent version of RSS Aggregator installed on our WordPress site, running PHP 5.6 we experience the following issues:
-When I edit a post or page and try to “Add Media” but the media library will not load. If I upload an image, the image will not appear in the page or post. It acts as if I did not make any change at all.
-Other plugin updates error out, particularly jetpack.
-Backups through updraft plus will not run.
-The site loads extremely slowly.
-Server 500 errors with every 3rd page load or so.
-A directory plugin that we use could not load at all. It is a core feature of the website, so doing without it is not an option.

If I disable RSS Aggregator – *all* of the problems go away.

Troubleshooting:
I disabled all plugins and re-enabled them one by one, testing paged/media editing and a few other things as I went. This allowed me to narrow it down to RSS Aggregator.

Knowing Jetpack to be buggy and deciding we could do without it, I removed Jetpack and RSS Aggregator completely, waited 24 hours for server caches to clear. Then I did a fresh install of RSS Aggregator and the problems all came back.

Since I have a very basic need to scroll linked article titles from an RSS feed, I have figured out a javascript solution as an alternative to your plugin. So, I do not need to open a ticket at this time.

Nonetheless, I thought you should know that in our case (our host is DreamHost) the PHP compatibility issue was causing major problems and I could not revert to PHP 5.5 on this host. They only offer 5.6 and 7 at this time.

The problems were so strange and site-wide that for the longest time I was convinced that it could not possibly be caused by RSS Aggregator, but I was wrong.

I am in the same boat. Dreamhost forced us all up to 5.6 with no recourse. Now the RSS Aggregator plugin is making a hash of the site. I only need the very simplified list version of the Simple Feeds Bundle. Any timeline on 5.6 compatibility?

I have figured out a way to do what we need to do without the plugin – gravity forms add-on.

Turning off the plugin stopped all PHP errors.

I have figured out that only 5 users were affected. I am assigning them new user IDs and assuming the previous ones are just lost.

Good enough.

Fixed! It was the permalinks. I checked the box about having trouble with permalinks in the settings and that fixed it.