Title: ‘Creating default object from empty value’ error
Last modified: November 19, 2022

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# ‘Creating default object from empty value’ error

 *  Resolved [njwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/njwp/)
 * (@njwp)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-default-object-from-empty-value-error-4/)
 * We have an auto popup on time-delay with a cookie set on popup close to not repeat
   for 1 month. It displays on all pages of the website
 * We use the Cerber plugin for security
 * With Cerber we blocked the access to wp-login.php
 * With this setup if you go to wp-login.php then the page is blocked (shows error
   404) as expected but there is a warning in the error_log for popupmaker:
 * PHP Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /wp-content/plugins/
   popup-maker/classes/Site/Popups.php on line 173
 * So not a real error in the sense that it would be expected that things may not
   behave correctly on a blocked wp-login.php page however I did find a way to avoid
   these errors.
 * I had Cerber set to use this setting ‘use 404 template from active theme’ for
   the blocked wp-login.php page
 * If I changed that setting to ‘display simple 404 page’ then popupmaker is no 
   longer logging warnings.
 * Posting this here in case others are getting the same error. Took me a while 
   to troubleshoot to find which URL was triggering it as it was too intermittent
   to be from all pages.

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 *  Plugin Support [Kim L](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimmyx/)
 * (@kimmyx)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-default-object-from-empty-value-error-4/#post-16222384)
 * Hi [@njwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/njwp/),
 * Thank you very much for taking the time to post your findings regarding the error
   you encountered along with your security plugin, Cerber . This will be helpful
   for anyone who will come across the same issue.
 * Let us know if we can assist you further regarding this. 🙂

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