diff --git a/fromgplus/fromgplus.php b/fromgplus/fromgplus.php
index 0f208037..78cbc83d 100644
--- a/fromgplus/fromgplus.php
+++ b/fromgplus/fromgplus.php
@@ -363,11 +363,11 @@ function fromgplus_handleattachments($a, $uid, $item, $displaytext, $shared) {
 					}
 				}
 
-				if ($images["preview"] != "") {
+				if (!empty($images["preview"])) {
 					$post .= "\n[url=".$images["page"]."][img]".$images["preview"]."[/img][/url]\n";
 					$pagedata["images"][0]["src"] = $images["preview"];
 					$pagedata["url"] = $images["page"];
-				} elseif ($images["full"] != "") {
+				} elseif (!empty($images["full"])) {
 					$post .= "\n[img]".$images["full"]."[/img]\n";
 					$pagedata["images"][0]["src"] = $images["full"];
 
diff --git a/pumpio/pumpio.php b/pumpio/pumpio.php
index c0f36c1d..5cda94d0 100644
--- a/pumpio/pumpio.php
+++ b/pumpio/pumpio.php
@@ -1620,7 +1620,9 @@ function pumpio_fetchallcomments(App $a, $uid, $id)
 			$like->object = new stdClass;
 			$like->object->id = $item->id;
 			$like->actor = new stdClass;
-			$like->actor->displayName = $item->displayName;
+			if (!empty($item->displayName)) {
+				$like->actor->displayName = $item->displayName;
+			}
 			//$like->actor->preferredUsername = $item->preferredUsername;
 			//$like->actor->image = $item->image;
 			$like->actor->url = $item->url;
diff --git a/superblock/superblock.php b/superblock/superblock.php
index 24111486..96529df8 100644
--- a/superblock/superblock.php
+++ b/superblock/superblock.php
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ function superblock_item_photo_menu(&$a,&$b) {
 
 	$blocked = false;
 	$author = $b['item']['author-link'];
-	if(is_array($a->data['superblock'])) {
+	if(!empty($a->data['superblock'])) {
 		foreach($a->data['superblock'] as $bloke) {
 			if(link_compare($bloke,$author)) {
 				$blocked = true;