Title: Deprecated Optional Parameters in disordered sequence?
Last modified: October 29, 2024

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# Deprecated Optional Parameters in disordered sequence?

 *  [jaymax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaymax/)
 * (@jaymax)
 * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deprecated-optional-parameters-in-disordered-sequence/)
 * Hi!
   Magazine Theme 3.0.8 (magazine-basic-child: version: 1.0), WP 6.6.2 .
 * Package throwing a **“Deprecated: Optional parameter $depth declared before required
   parameter $output is implicitly treated as a required parameter in ‘****/…/…/’
   wp-content/themes/magazine-basic/functions.php on line 566″** message.
 * There are 5 instances of $depth in the functions.php file:
   line 351line 376line
   378line 566line 571Line 566 has **“$depth=0”**Could this be the cause of the 
   message? would changing it to just $depth, like the others, solve the problem
   w/o breaking the site?Thanks!

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