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Fatal error when adding new friend

Friends · support · 2025-05-28T12:32:00+00:00

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Matze Pabst resolved
Hi! I have two websites with ActivityPub and Friends plugins enabled. On both sites the ActivityPub profile type is set to “blog profile only”. When I try to add website 2 as a new friend in website 1 and click on “preview”, I get the following fatal error: Uncaught Error: Friends\Feed_Parser_ActivityPub::handle_incoming_update_person(): Argument #2 ($user_feed) must be of type Friends\User_Feed, null given, called in /var/www/vhosts/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/friends/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-activitypub.php on line 1042 in /var/www/vhosts/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/friends/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-activitypub.php on line 1210 Call stack: Friends\Feed_Parser_ActivityPub::handle_incoming_update_person() wp-content/plugins/friends/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-activitypub.php:1042 Friends\Feed_Parser_ActivityPub::process_incoming_activity() wp-content/plugins/friends/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-activitypub.php:764 Friends\Feed_Parser_ActivityPub::fetch_feed() wp-content/plugins/friends/includes/class-feed.php:182 Friends\Feed::preview() wp-content/plugins/friends/includes/class-admin.php:2142 Friends\Admin::render_admin_add_friend() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324 WP_Hook::apply_filters() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:348 WP_Hook::do_action() wp-includes/plugin.php:517 do_action() wp-admin/admin.php:260 What’s the problem? How can I solve this? Best regards Matthias The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi Matze, thanks for the report and sorry for the late reply! This looks like it’s a problem specific to the preview and it will work when actually following that second blog. The problem was that the “feed” contains an update of the profile but at the time of the preview you are not following yet so the update cannot be applied. I overlooked this aspect when implementing it. This will be fixed in the next version, you can view the fix https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/547 if you’re interested.

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Alex Kirk 2025-06-17T08:51:00+00:00

Hi Matze, thanks for the report and sorry for the late reply! This looks like it’s a problem specific to the preview and it will work when actually following that second blog. The problem was that the “feed” contains an update of the profile but at the time of the preview you are not following yet so the update cannot be applied. I overlooked this aspect when implementing it. This will be fixed in the next version, you can view the fix https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/547 if you’re interested.