Title: Deprecated: Cannot use &#8220;parent&#8221;
Last modified: May 4, 2020

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# Deprecated: Cannot use “parent”

 *  Resolved [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-cannot-use-parent/)
 * Hello,
 * Since the last update of Ninja Forms, I get this message on all pages (back-end
   + front-end):
 * Deprecated: Cannot use “parent” when current class scope has no parent in wp-
   content/plugins/ninja-forms/includes/Abstracts/Field.php on line 210

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 *  Thread Starter [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-cannot-use-parent/#post-12776242)
 * Sorry, this is a duplicate of [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-cannot-use-parent-when-current-class-scope-has-no-parent/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-cannot-use-parent-when-current-class-scope-has-no-parent/)
 * It may come from the update to PHP 7.4, not from the update of Ninja Forms.

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