Title: PHP 5.5 compatibility Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # PHP 5.5 compatibility * [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/) * (@wandriska) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/) * Hi there, Hostgator is requiring its users to upgrade their sites to PHP 5.5 compatibility ( one can elect to stay on 5.2, but they are suggesting best to upgrade). I tested my site with 5.5 and found that the only problem was this plugin. * Is this to do with the coding of this plugin or to do with something on my site that is talking to this plug in. * thanks, Andrew * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * (@hcabrera) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4889885) * Hi Andrew, * Couldn’t know for sure without seeing the errors. Please post the error messages so I can take a look. * Thread Starter [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/) * (@wandriska) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890040) * Hi Hector, * There is no error when I run the site with PhP 5.5 but the plg in does not load, just the heading * ta * Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * (@hcabrera) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890042) * Do you have _WP\_DEBUG_ (see config.php) set to _true_? Otherwise, WordPress will hide all PHP warning / error messages. * Could you please verify? * Thread Starter [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/) * (@wandriska) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890067) * I appear to have FirePHP (Firefox Firebug addon). * Will that suffice..? * Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * (@hcabrera) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890083) * No, unfortunately that won’t help. * To avoid displaying warning / errors messages on your site, try this: * 1. On _config.php_, set WP_DEBUG to true. It should look like this: `define(' WP_DEBUG', true);`. * 2. Add the following two lines of code right after `define('WP_DEBUG', true);`: * ``` define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true); // Saves error messages to wp_content/debug.log define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false); // Disables the output of error messages on screen ``` * 3. Enable the plugin again, browse a couple of pages and then post here the contents of _wp\_content/debug.log_ (or upload the file somewhere so I can download it). * Thread Starter [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/) * (@wandriska) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890103) * Yeah, I wish I could. I can’t find any mention of that WP_DEBUG in my config file * Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * (@hcabrera) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890104) * You mean _wp-config.php_, correct? * It should be right after: * > /** > * For developers: WordPress debugging mode. * * Change this to true to > enable the display of notices during development. * It is strongly recommended > that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG * in their development environments.*/ * If it’s not, which would be odd since [it’s been included by default in wp-config.php since WordPress version 2.3.1](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Debug), you can add it like this: * ``` define('WP_DEBUG', true); // Enables PHP debugging define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true); // Saves error messages to wp_content/debug.log define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false); // Disables the output of error messages on screen ``` * Place this block of code right before: * > /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ * Thread Starter [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/) * (@wandriska) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890113) * Huh, you were right.. I just didn’t get to the end! * The one I had was a simple one liner…I actually tried to install yours as it looked more comprehensive, but it ended up giving the site issues (wouldn’t load) so I just changed the one I had to “true” * Doing this threw up error messages for another plugin (even with PHP 5.2) but nothing came up for yours…. * Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * (@hcabrera) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890131) * > The one I had was a simple one liner…I actually tried to install yours as it > looked more comprehensive, but it ended up giving the site issues (wouldn’t > load) so I just changed the one I had to “true” * Yes, by default only WP_DEBUG is present on wp-config.php. The other two (WP_DEBUG_LOG and WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY) are additional constants for developers to enable logging without outputting anything on screen. * > Doing this threw up error messages for another plugin (even with PHP 5.2) but > nothing came up for yours…. * I see. That’s odd. Could it be another plugin causing the issue? Have you tried disabling all other plugins but WPP? * What’s your site’s URL, by the way? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘PHP 5.5 compatibility’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wordpress-popular-posts/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1232659) * [WP Popular Posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/) ## Tags * [PHP compatibility](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-compatibility/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/) * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility/#post-4890131) * Status: not resolved