Title: [Plugin: Meteor Slides] error on upload
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Meteor Slides] error on upload

 *  [Paul de Wouters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauldewouters/)
 * (@pauldewouters)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-error-on-upload/)
 * Hi
 * I’m getting the following error when uploading an image as a featured image with
   the meteor slides plugin
 * Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in …\wp-content\plugins\
   hammy\WPThumb\phpthumb\src\thumb_plugins\backgroundFill.php on line 34
 * referring to this other plugin support thread
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hammy-error-on-image-upload?replies=3#post-3149503](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hammy-error-on-image-upload?replies=3#post-3149503)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/)

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 *  [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-error-on-upload/#post-3029621)
 * The issue is that WP Thumb uses call time pass by reference:
 * foo( &$var );
    Which has been removed in PHP 5.4.
 * We’ll fix this in the next version of WP Thumb.

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 * Last reply from: [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-error-on-upload/#post-3029621)
 * Status: not resolved