Adding “old” widgets to sidebar triggers PHP warning

  • ngoncalves

    (@ngoncalves)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Widgets registered using wp_register_sidebar_widget() triggers a PHP warning when they are added to a sidebar.

    The cause is in inc/widgets.php, in the graphene_dynamic_sidebar_params function.

    It expects $params to have 2 elements however in these widgets, $params only has 1 elements so PHP complains about accessing the element at index 1.
    This is easily fixable by moving the line $widget_number = $params[1]['number']; inside the if condition. Since you pass a function to wp_register_sidebar_widget(), the condition isn’t triggered for older widgets.

    Here’s a basic implementation of a older widget for testing: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_register_sidebar_widget/

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  • Thread Starter ngoncalves

    (@ngoncalves)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Here’s another warning I found, it doesn’t deserve a full topic so I’m adding it here, too bad I can’t change the title. Here’s another PHP warning when showing comments:

    PHP Warning:  Attempt to read property "display_name" on bool in /data/wp-content/themes/graphene/inc/comments.php on line 232

    When the plugins tries to fetch the author of a comment, it uses get_userdata to get the WP_User object. If the author doesn’t exist anymore, the function returns false, so it tries to get the display_name of a boolean, hence the warning.

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