Title: welcome-panel.php temp fix
Last modified: October 20, 2021

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# welcome-panel.php temp fix

 *  [vitaleffectconnor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitaleffectconnor/)
 * (@vitaleffectconnor)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-panel-php-temp-fix/)
 * If you go into wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/admin/includes and open welcome-
   panel.php as this is where you are having issues (mostly older versions of php).
 * Line 9 change print to printsomething
    Line 223 change $column->print(); to $
   column->printsomething();
 * I don’t think older versions of php like using print as the name for a function
   since it’s a built in function. This fixed contact-form-7 on all my websites 
   that have to run on 5.6 hope it helps you.

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 *  [iraqiboy90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iraqiboy90/)
 * (@iraqiboy90)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-panel-php-temp-fix/#post-14990334)
 * Thanks for this fix. php 5.6 is dead but I’m currently forced to stay with it,
   for now…
 *  [russ773](https://wordpress.org/support/users/russ773/)
 * (@russ773)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-panel-php-temp-fix/#post-14991475)
 * Thanks for the fix, like above I’m currently forced to use an older version but
   least the contact form is working again…for now!
 * Thanks bud

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-panel-php-temp-fix/#post-14991475)
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