Title: PHP 5.3 error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PHP 5.3 error

 *  [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * (@ryanhellyer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-53-error/)
 * I have a WordPress theme which keeps leaving the following message in the users
   admin panel:
    “Sorry, but this theme only supports php 5.3 or above. Some features
   may or may not work as expected.”. Any ideas on how
 * I could have sworn I didn’t use any PHP 5.3 code in there, and am failing at 
   working out what code I supposedly used which is not PHP 5.2 compatible.
 * Do any of you know how I can work out where the incompatible code is? The theme
   itself appears to be working fine. I’ve had a good test and couldn’t see any 
   bugs but I’m guessing something somewhere is failing.

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 *  Thread Starter [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * (@ryanhellyer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-53-error/#post-2148515)
 * Sigh. Just ignore me. I was being a total bafoon.
 * dd32 just showed me the error of my ways. I added an error message for 5.3 support
   some time ago when the theme required PHP 5.3. I forgot to remove it and that
   was the message I was seeing.

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