Version for PHP 7?

  • janetdawson

    (@janetdawson)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    The current version of this plugin only works with PHP 8, but my host has not updated past PHP 7.4. Is an older version of the plugin that works with PHP 7.4 available somewhere? Or an alternate version?

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  • steerpike58

    (@steerpike58)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    I have a similar problem. My host does support PHP 8 (I can choose 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) but WordPress itself isn’t clear on the support status of PHP; only PHP 7.4 is fully supported. I tried setting PHP on my host to 8.x (all versions) and none of them worked with my WP installation. So I had to reset back to 7.4, and thus, I can’t use this plugin.

    steerpike58

    (@steerpike58)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    I see this in another post “Although deprecated, if you want to update the plugin without updating php, you can download the plugin as a zip file and install it by rewriting “Requires PHP: 8.0” in the readme.txt to your version.”

    I just followed this – I downloaded the file, edited readme.txt and changed php 80 reference to say php 74, and uploaded the directory. I was then able to install / activate the plugin! Never heard of using a ‘readme.txt’ to actually configure something before but … it worked.

    Now I need to learn how to use it.

    NOTE – if you don’t actually require PHP 8.0, I think it would be a great idea to change that requirement because I see LOTS of users having issues getting WP working with php 8.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by steerpike58.
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