Solving this plugin problems

If you are like me looking for a plugin to show the latest videos from aparat.com, this is the only plugin but it may have some problems that i explain here how to fix them:

1- If you use its widget and the page rendering stopped right there, the allow_url_fopen is disabled in your hosting, if you cannot change it (there are many ways to do this) you have to change wp-aparat/aparat.php and replace this line

$item_page = file_get_contents( $item->get_permalink() );
with something like this

$url = $item->get_permalink();
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo(“Error loading file”);
echo curl_error($ch);
return;
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}

if (!is_string($contents) || !strlen($contents)) {
echo(“Error loading file”);
return;
}
$item_page = $contents;`

2- it doesn’t show the date correctly, to fix this replace this
<?php if ( function_exists( 'jdate' ) ) { echo jdate( "j F Y", $item->get_date() ); } else { echo date( "j F Y", $item->get_date() ); } ?>
to this
<?php echo date_i18n( "j F Y", strtotime($item->get_date()) ); ?>
in the same file.

3- If you also don’t like the video title font, remove the following line from wp-aparat/assets/css/style.css/style file:
font-family: IRANSans-Light-web;

Good luck