Title: Plugin Broken under PHP 5.3
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin Broken under PHP 5.3

 *  [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/)
 * Plugin broken under PHP 5.3.5 on WordPress 3.2 and 3.2.1
 * Under PHP 5.3.5 my home page loop reports 404, blog won’t show and dashboard “
   All Posts” to show Auto Saves and what I’m guessing are post revisions… Disabling
   the plug returns everything to normal.
 * I discovered this only because the site I just installed this on last week was
   kicked off it’s shared server for excessive resource usage. I copied the site
   to my local environment which is PHP 5.3.x. I don’t know definitively that this
   plugin was to blame for the excessive resource usage, but it’s a reasonable place
   to start.

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 *  [squrler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squrler/)
 * (@squrler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183594)
 * I can confirm this: have PHP 5.3.3 and activating this plugin made my site completely
   unresponsive. After deactivating the plugin I even had to flush the memcache 
   to make the site come back up.
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-8960782)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183759)
 * Realize this thread is 6 months old but host just upgraded to PHP 5.3 and this
   plugin caused major headaches on a site. Had to completely remove to get it to
   come back. Once removed site behaved as expected except for hidden categories
   are now visible.
 * Anyone have an idea how to fix it? Client would like that feature back.
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183760)
 * Rather then use the plugin just remove the categories from the query yourself.
   There is a
    Good example in the codex. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Queries#Category_Exclusion](http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Queries#Category_Exclusion)
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-8960782)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183761)
 * That works for me, who can code and knows PHP etc, but not for my clients that
   just edit their sites and occasionally add new categories etc. It is not a very
   user friendly solution for them and they don’t want to pay me all the time to
   do it for them.
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183762)
 * That’s why your client hired you 🙂
 * Either debug ACE (that’s the beauty of Open Source, you can fix it yourself),
   or write a custom plugin for your client. Personally I found it easier to just
   custom code a category exclusion option into my clients theme then mess with 
   debugging a 2 year old plugin with lots of features I didn’t actually need. YMMV.
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-8960782)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183763)
 * In a perfect world I could take the time to debug and write custom code for every
   client, but this is not a perfect world. Of course then I would not be using 
   WordPress for clients sites to begin with because I would create my own. 🙂
 * So for those interested we went with the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/)

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/advanced-category-excluder.svg)
 * [Advanced Category Excluder](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-category-excluder/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-category-excluder/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-category-excluder/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-category-excluder/reviews/)

 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: Anonymous User
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-under-php-53/#post-2183763)
 * Status: not resolved