How do you fix a fatal error for Jetpack?

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  umadoshi · Member · May 18, 2011 at 8:11 am

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  I am hosted at GoDaddy.com, and have performed a wordpress update on their system… that might very well be the fatal error… however, the blog was working properly… and now it returns the following:

  Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_file_data() in /home/content/u/m/a/umadoshi/html/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php on line 278

  I have deleted jetpack plugin, downloaded the latest version, and uploaded it to the proper location on the FTP server. The error remains.

  I am using CreativeSpark theme.

  Here is the code that supposedly is causing the error:

  /**
  * Load module data from module file. Headers differ from WordPress
  * plugin headers to avoid them being identified as standalone
  * plugins on the WordPress plugins page.
  */
  function get_module( $module ) {
  $headers = array(
  ’name’ => ’Module Name’,
  ’description’ => ’Module Description’,
  ’sort’ => ’Sort Order’,
  );
  $file = Jetpack::get_module_path( Jetpack::get_module_slug( $module ) );
  $mod = get_file_data( $file, $headers );
  if ( empty( $mod[’sort’] ) )
  $mod[’sort’] = 10;
  if ( !empty( $mod[’name’] ) )
  return $mod;
  return false;
  }

  Thanks for your help…
  Blog url: http://www.umadoshi.com

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  westi · Staff · May 18, 2011 at 8:22 am

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  It looks like your WordPress install is missing or has corrupt versions of some core files.

  Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_file_data() in /home/content/u/m/a/umadoshi/html/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php on line 278

  This is for Jetpack trying to call a core WordPress function – get_file_data which is defined in wp-includes/functions.php.

  It sounds like during the upgrade of your WordPress install some files got corrupted. The best thing to do is to replace the wp-includes/functions.php file with a new version and see if this resolves the error or a new one appears.

  You can do this by downloading the zip file for your WordPress version from here: http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ and then uploading the file using FTP.

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  umadoshi · Member · May 18, 2011 at 8:32 am

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  Thanks for the reply… I will give it a shot.

  If it doesn’t work, I will just try to rever back to the initial installation of wordpress.