Title: Upgrading to PHP 8.0 Breaks the “Basic” Theme
Last modified: April 13, 2022

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# Upgrading to PHP 8.0 Breaks the “Basic” Theme

 *  [mpturner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpturner/)
 * (@mpturner)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-to-php-8-0-breaks-the-basic-theme/)
 * We updated to PHP 8.0 and the theme broke completely (it throws a “critical error”
   and simply won’t load anything other than the main menu.

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 *  [sianeliz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sianeliz/)
 * (@sianeliz)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-to-php-8-0-breaks-the-basic-theme/#post-15694975)
 * Have you managed to fix it yet? I’ve mentioned it to our webmaster and hope he
   hasn’t got auto update on!
 *  Thread Starter [mpturner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpturner/)
 * (@mpturner)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-to-php-8-0-breaks-the-basic-theme/#post-15695209)
 * [@sianeliz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sianeliz/) – It appears to be
   working for us now. I have no idea what has changed, as the theme was not updated
   and we didn’t update anything else. I did notice a minor release of PHP 8 was
   auto-installed on our server (WP Engine is our host) so perhaps that fixed it.
 *  [sianeliz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sianeliz/)
 * (@sianeliz)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-to-php-8-0-breaks-the-basic-theme/#post-15696075)
 * Ah excellent, had me worried. Hope yours stays ok.

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