Title: Shortcode deprecated error
Last modified: December 6, 2016

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# Shortcode deprecated error

 *  [Colleen Gratzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gratzergraphics/)
 * (@gratzergraphics)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-deprecated-error/)
 * I just updated CF7, after installing the Conditional Fields and Multi-Step Forms
   add-ons, and got this:
 *  Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! 
   Use wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use
   wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use
   wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use
   wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use
   wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * Notice: wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use
   wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /usr/home/gratzergraphics/public_html/clients/
   ggllc/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 351
 * If I deactivate the add-ons, the error message goes away. Do I need to contact
   those developers?
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Colleen Gratzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gratzergraphics/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-deprecated-error/#post-8522521)
 * Maybe. I don’t know who manages the Conditional Fields and Multi-Step Forms plugin,
   though.
 * More than that, you’d better not use [_WP\_DEBUG = true_](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
   on a live site. It’s for debugging.
 *  Thread Starter [Colleen Gratzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gratzergraphics/)
 * (@gratzergraphics)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-deprecated-error/#post-8526581)
 * I didn’t use WP-DEBUG. I simply updated CF& and that showed up.
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-deprecated-error/#post-8527314)
 * You see the notice because you use WP_DEBUG.
 *  [hasandhk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hasandhk/)
 * (@hasandhk)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-deprecated-error/#post-8560844)
 * Hello, I got this issue when I updated Plugin “wpcf7_add_shortcode is deprecated
   since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use wpcf7_add_form_tag instead. in /home/findbave/
   public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 
   351.
 * That is the 351 number line ” trigger_error( sprintf( __( ‘%1$s is **deprecated**
   since Contact Form 7 version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.’, ‘contact-form-7’ ), $function,
   $version, $replacement ) );”
 * Can you tell me where will I change?
 * Please help me.
 * Thanks

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