Title: PHP Warning: Illegal string offset 'widget_id'
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# PHP Warning: Illegal string offset 'widget_id'

 *  Resolved [tzdk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzdk/)
 * (@tzdk)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-illegal-string-offset-widget_id/)
 * Is what I see when using short code method.
 * Refer to line 205 in widget-alias.php
 * `$widget_id = $args['widget_id'];`
 * isset fixes:
 *     ```
       if ( isset( $args['widget_id'] ) ) {
           $widget_id = $args['widget_id'];
       }
       ```
   
 * I thought it was because test site PHP version is 5.5.15 but it also show up 
   on 5.3.x. Cant test 5.2.x as that other things go poof.
 * Test site not really clean but warning seems like a legit oops 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-alias/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-alias/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-illegal-string-offset-widget_id/#post-5263470)
 * Thanks so much for the heads up. I just pushed version 1.7 with your fix!

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