Title: Plugin has significant PHP 8 issues
Last modified: October 23, 2025

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# Plugin has significant PHP 8 issues

 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eizzumdm/)
 * (@eizzumdm)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-significant-php-8-issues/)
 * There is no reason why anyone should still be running this 14-year-old plugin,
   but there are over 500 installs, including our multisite network (I am embarrassed
   to say).
 * This plugin changes the global wp_version to an integer with a random 3-digit
   string on each page load. This causes deprecation warnings for any plugin that
   tries to evaluate $wp_version. It even causes a fatal error in recent version
   of Object Cache Pro.
   If you have WP CLI access to your site, you can run the 
   following to verify: `wp eval var_dump($GLOBALS["wp_version"]);` Expected value:`
   string(5) "6.8.3"`Example value after being overwritten by Hide WordPress Version(
   integer is random):`int(585)`

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eizzumdm/)
 * Last activity: [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-significant-php-8-issues/)
 * Status: not resolved