Title: Declaration incompatability error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Declaration incompatability error

 *  Resolved [flynsarmy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flynsarmy/)
 * (@flynsarmy)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/)
 * After upgrading to WP3.6 I’m getting the error
 * > Strict standards: Declaration of PageNavi_Options_Page::validate() should be
   > compatible with scbAdminPage::validate($new_data, $old_data) in /path/to/wp-
   > content/plugins/wp-pagenavi/admin.php on line 156
 * I would suggest renaming the validate method to scbValidate? Your method definition
   is different to that of the parent class. Needs to be the same.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/)

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 *  Thread Starter [flynsarmy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flynsarmy/)
 * (@flynsarmy)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066047)
 * It looks like in /wp-content/plugins/wp-pagenavi/admin.php you can just change
 *     ```
       function validate( $options ) {
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       function validate( $new_data, $old_data ) {
       	$options = wp_parse_args($new_data, $old_data);
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066056)
 * Thank you! [https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-pagenavi/commit/741ae330d09efd642be2ec323ac8e9638b113e99](https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-pagenavi/commit/741ae330d09efd642be2ec323ac8e9638b113e99)
 *  [Chuck Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryno267/)
 * (@ryno267)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066149)
 * yup same issue. i’m assuming will roll out in next version?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066152)
 * Yes it will =) I am waiting for more fixes =)
 *  [Juergen Schulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1manfactory/)
 * (@1manfactory)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066192)
 * [@flynsarmy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flynsarmy/)
    Thank you
 *  [ianarmstrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianarmstrong/)
 * (@ianarmstrong)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066272)
 * Not gonna lie, four months later a sub-version update would be welcome. This 
   is annoying to change on every single project.
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066273)
 * [@ianarmstrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianarmstrong/): done, 2.84
   to fix the problem.
 *  [ianarmstrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianarmstrong/)
 * (@ianarmstrong)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066274)
 * Awesome, thanks Lester 🙂
 * Now to warm up InfiniteWP and update a whole whack of sites. Thanks for the rapid
   response 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066275)
 * awesome =)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/declaration-incompatability-error/#post-4066275)
 * Status: resolved