Title: WP_Widget changes
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WP_Widget changes

 *  [Kees de Bruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesdebruin/)
 * (@keesdebruin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_widget-changes/)
 * With the release of WP4.3 I get the PHP error about the changed constructor usage
   for WP_Widget. The fix is simple, just change
 * `parent::WP_Widget`
 * to
 * `parent::__construct`
 * in `widgets/*.php`.

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