Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare get_avatar_url()

Resolved furat2012
(@furat2012)

11 years ago
yesterday my website giving me white-screen
drjumana.com

after looking inside the error.log
i found this line
[24-Apr-2015 10:28:51 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_avatar_url() (previously declared in /home/jumanajfc/public_html/wp-includes/link-template.php:3414) in /home/jumanajfc/public_html/wp-content/themes/quadrum-theme/functions/filters.php on line 155

actually I don’t know my wordpress version, the filters.php file which contain the line 155 is like the following

[ Moderator note: code fixed. Please wrap code in the backtick character or use the code button. ]
```
unction get_avatar_url($get_avatar){
    if(preg_match("/src='(.*?)'/i", $get_avatar, $matches)) {
    	preg_match("/src='(.*?)'/i", $get_avatar, $matches);
   		return $matches[1];
    } else {
    	preg_match("/src=\"(.*?)\"/i", $get_avatar, $matches);
   		return $matches[1];
    }
}
```
any help plz

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

rcastro
(@rcastro)

11 years ago

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];
}

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

11 years ago

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

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

Thread Starter furat2012
(@furat2012)

11 years ago

you can just remove the code related to avatar

I did this and the site work again

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

11 years ago

Someone did, and they posted a fix too. 😉

Give this a read.

https://wordpress.org/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.

sescallada
(@sescallada)

11 years ago

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.

Hug0P1res
(@hug0p1res)

11 years ago

Thank you Jan Dembowski, your post was the most useful.
Marcelo Herrera
(@rafadizeo)

10 years, 10 months ago
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];
	}
```
swatisahoo
(@swatisahoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

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

autorall
(@autorall)

10 years, 8 months ago

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!
taskerlee
(@taskerlee)

10 years, 5 months ago
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 🙂