Title: Deprecated message
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Deprecated message

 *  [AndyG93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyg93/)
 * (@andyg93)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-message/)
 * This message is appearing at the top of my blog:
    Deprecated: Assigning the return
   value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\Sites\scots-titles-uk.com\public_html\
   wp-content\plugins\xml-sitemaps\xml-sitemaps.php on line 238
 * What does it mean?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-message/#post-3006138)
 * It’s a warning that the xml-sitemaps plugin isn’t using PHP correctly. It shouldn’t
   affect you in the short term but you might want to start looking for an other
   google sitemap plugin sooner rather than later.
 *  [gillmason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillmason/)
 * (@gillmason)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-message/#post-3006412)
 * When I try and get onto my website I am getting theses error messages and can
   not get onto the signing in page
 * Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /
   home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 520
 * Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /
   home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 535
 * Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /
   home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 542
 * Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /
   home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 578
 * Deprecated: Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated in /home/gill/public_html/
   wp-settings.php on line 18
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php:520) in /home/gill/public_html/wp-content/
   plugins/cystats/cystats.php on line 199
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/gill/public_html/wp-settings.php:520) in /home/gill/public_html/wp-includes/
   pluggable.php on line 850
 * Also if my website is viewed the error messages are visible , this applies to
   my site and also my husbands
 * Can anyone tell me how to solve this please.

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 * [deprecated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deprecated/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [gillmason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillmason/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-message/#post-3006412)
 * Status: not resolved

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