Title: Plugin compatibility with WordPress 4.3+ Last modified: October 11, 2016 --- # Plugin compatibility with WordPress 4.3+ * Resolved [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/) * If you enable debug mode You will see error message like this: * ``` PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; randomize has a deprecated constructor in .../wp-content/plugins/randomize/randomize.php on line 30 PHP Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget in randomize is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use 
__construct()
instead. in .../wp-includes/functions.php on line xxx ``` * Can somebody fix it please? Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8306787) * Hi! I will fix this in the next few days. Thanks for reporting! * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8331869) * This issue is fixed now. * [danposmaytee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danposmaytee/) * (@danposmaytee) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8332830) * Hi Basti @se_schwarz * Loving the plug in – got a couple of questions. * If I update it will it remove the data I have put into it? And second, is there anyway of exporting the data out to an excel file or word document? * Awesome plugin either way this is what I’m using it for: [http://pagetopixels.co.uk/story-generator-writing-prompt/](http://pagetopixels.co.uk/story-generator-writing-prompt/) * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8332925) * Hi danposmaytee, * thank you for your interest. I would like to answer to your questions. * > When you using the direct update, no data will be lost. Only if you uninstall the plugin completely, all entries will be lost. * > at this time there is no export function available. But I think, I will implement this feature soon. Stay tuned. 🙂 * Basti * [danposmaytee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danposmaytee/) * (@danposmaytee) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8332961) * Thanks Basti! * Would you be able to explain how the shortcode works a little more: [randomize category=”EXAMPLE_CATEGORY” random=”1″]. * What does “Random=”1” do? * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8332976) * Random = 1 means, that the entries of this category will be randomly shown. If Random = 0, the entries will be shown in an ordered sequence, one after the another * Thread Starter [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8333762) * thanks for update! * Thread Starter [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8333778) * bad news: `PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; randomize has a deprecated constructor in /hosting/www/xxx/www/wp-content/plugins/randomize/randomize.php on line 30` with updated version :/ * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8333790) * Interesting. I tested the update by myself, and had no PHP warnings. * Okay, so…. this is not disadvantage at this time. It should be done by disabling WP Debugging in wp-config.php * I will try to fix that in the next update. * Stay tuned! * Thread Starter [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8334151) * yes I know, i was only curious, so I enabled debug. I am using latest WP on PHP7 maybe this is it. * Thread Starter [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8334195) * definitelly PHP7 issue * ``` FILE: /hosting/www/mikrom.cz/www/wp-content/plugins/randomize/randomize.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 32 | ERROR | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ``` * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8336698) * I will follow it up by reading the code by hand and make it compatible to PHP7. * Thread Starter [mikrom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikrom/) * (@mikrom) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8410492) * any news with `PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; randomize has a deprecated constructor in /hosting/www/xxx/www/wp-content/plugins/randomize/randomize.php on line 30`? * Plugin Contributor [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * (@se-schwarz) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8421304) * Very soon, I’m working with a friend on it. 🙂 Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘Plugin compatibility with WordPress 4.3+’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/randomize_8b8d98.svg) * [Randomize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/randomize/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/randomize/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/randomize/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/randomize/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/randomize/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/randomize/reviews/) ## Tags * [deprecated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deprecated/) * [outdated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/outdated/) * [resolved](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/resolved/) * [update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update/) * 14 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Sebastian Schwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/se-schwarz/) * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-with-wordpress-4-3/#post-8421304) * Status: resolved