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I was having the same problem with a large WPMU import. I muddled about a bit and seemingly found a solution.

The only caveat is that I am not creating new users with the script, and I haven’t tested to see how this alters that function.

I changed a line in /wp-admin/import/mt.php

Line 106 changed from:

$key = array_search($author, $this->mtnames); //find the array key for $author in the $mtnames array

Line 106 changed to:

$key = array_search($author, $this->get_mt_authors()); //find the array key for $author in the $mtnames array

Another chiming in that Akismet has been missing much more than normal, even though the stats disagree.

I just had the same problem activating the plugin on one of my WordPress MU blogs.

I determined it was because when I copied and pasted the API key, I included a trailing space. E.g. ‘abcdefghijk ‘ instead of the correct ‘abcdefghijk’

I disabled the plugin, re-enabled it, put in the correct API key without a trailing space and everything worked great.

I’ve successfully devised a function that has reliably grabbed the latest Tweet for the last several days for me.

For those of you who have been getting this problem and want a no-frills function that grabs only the most recent tweet, you can find the function here.

It uses the Atom feed instead of RSS. My server has had no problems with it.

The regular expression that finds and sets links isn’t robust enough to find some of the URL shrinkers.

It’s the preg_replace() on line 112 and 114. You could replace it with something you like better. (Sorry, I’m regex dumb and can’t tell one from another, try googling “preg_replace links” or “regular expressions links”

You might find something that works better for you.

Just to clarify, this is not this plugin’s error. I’ve used Twitter Tools with similar errors and even wrote a function using SimplePie to get the Twitter RSS feed instead of Magpie and it comes up with intermittent feed-grabbing errors.

The problems all seem to be server based as I have no issues whatsoever from the localhost. I’ve checked up and down Google, phpinfo(), and PHP setting changes to no avail.

I’m going to try the RSS widget next, but in order to get the feed the way I like, I’m going to have to customize this as well. I’d much rather use a simple plugin like this.

Boo! I posted too soon

Now it’s back to not working. Even with greater time outs it’s not grabbing the feed. I wonder what made it work then decide not to.

Hopefully I’ll post a new solution soon.

Alright, I have it working — at least momentarily.

You can add this line to the plugin or a functions.php

define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 5);

Feel free to change the time out to something shorter (in seconds).

The problem appears to be with the fetch_rss() function which apparently works via Magpie.

Both the plugin and a manually constructed rss fetcher work fine on my localhost test machine, but fail to grab the feed on the server.

I’ll post more if I find any solutions.