Undefined index: WP_Widget_Recent_Comments

webcitymedia · May 2016

Updating to WP 4.5.1 started seeing this error message with Betheme version 13

"Notice: Undefined index: WP_Widget_Recent_Comments in /home/showerspark/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-head.php on line 1176"

Albert · May 2016

Hi,

please turn off all extra plugins first. If this won't help, then please send us private message with dashboard and FTP access.

webcitymedia · May 2016

It is strange. I thought I tried the normal routine of turning off all the plugins. However

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-comments version 1.5 is the conflict.

[05-May-2016 18:40:36 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: WP_Widget_Recent_Comments in /home/abcd/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-head.php on line 1176

Albert · May 2016

We did never tested this plugin and we don't know where the problem might be exactly. We suggest to do not use the plugin if it's the culprit.

webcitymedia · May 2016

Thanks for the timely responses. The plugin has been removed and in process of informing the plugin author.

Albert · May 2016

No problem.

webcitymedia · May 2016

I received the following message from the plugin author:

Samir Shah wrote:

Thanks for posting this. I'm not able to fix this from
the plugin however. You will need to ask the theme authors to fix their logic -
the theme code should be checking whether the WP_Widget_Recent_Comments widget
is registered before trying to modify its behaviour.

You can also prevent the conflict on your own install by
defining your own mfn_remove_recent_comments_style which does nothing:

function mfn_remove_recent_comments_style(){}

Albert · May 2016

This shouldn't be done like that but we will add this with next theme update.