Need help! my Eight Paper theme got errors

Hi, my site has been using Eight Paper theme for a few years now and all had been great. but recently i found that i couldn’t customize the appearance anymore. an error would pop up:

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then I checked the log:

Message

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/themes/eight-paper/inc/widgets/ep-widget-fields.php:138 Stack trace: #0 /srv/htdocs/wp-content/themes/eight-paper/inc/widgets/ep-featured-posts.php(250): eight_paper_widgets_show_widget_field(Object(eight_paper_Featured_Posts), Array, '') #1 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php(535): eight_paper_Featured_Posts->form(Array) #2 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-admin/includes/widgets.php(276): WP_Widget->form_callback(Array) #3 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php(1166): wp_widget_control(Array, Array) #4 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php(1114): WP_Customize_Widgets->get_widget_control(Array) #5 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php(714): WP_Customize_Widgets->get_available_widgets() #6 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): WP_Customize_Widgets->enqueue_scripts('') #7 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(348): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #8 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #9 /wordpress/core/6.7.1/wp-admin/customize.php(127): do_action('customize_contr...') #10 {main} thrown in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/themes/eight-paper/inc/widgets/ep-widget-fields.php on line 138

Timestamp

2025-02-07T19:39:35.000Z

Kind

themes

Name

eight-paper

File

/srv/htdocs/wp-content/themes/eight-paper/inc/widgets/ep-widget-fields.php

Line

138

Please help me! if I have to switch to another theme it would be super troublesome as all my content’s adjusted for this theme.

thank you!