Title: Illegal string errors
Last modified: September 26, 2016

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# Illegal string errors

 *  Resolved [Malae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malae/)
 * (@malae)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-errors-2/)
 * Hello Ben,
 * I have had a page with SVG images for some time and am doing some tidying up.
   I found your plug-in and have installed it. It has helped to show images of the
   SVG files in the Media library on my test site, which is useful. I noticed when
   clicking View, it is showing warnings (same for all images):
 *     ```
       Warning: Illegal string offset 'width' in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentyeleven\image.php on line 34
   
       Warning: Illegal string offset 'height' in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentyeleven\image.php on line 35
       ```
   
 * Do you have any idea why this is happening?

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 *  Plugin Author [Benbodhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbodhi/)
 * (@benbodhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-errors-2/#post-8225145)
 * Hi,
 * I’m not sure this is related to my plugin. But please make sure you are using
   the latest version (even re-install) of the twentyeleven theme. That’s a really
   old theme 😛
 * Maybe go through some standard WordPress troubleshooting steps and see if you
   can find any more information.
 * Deactivate all other plugins and revert to twentysixteen theme. Is the error 
   still there?
    If not, then activate one by one, checking each time for the error
   to find the culprit. If error still there with plain WordPress, twentysixteen
   theme and SVG Support active only, then let me know.
 * I’d be interested to see what this is caused by anyway.
 *  Thread Starter [Malae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malae/)
 * (@malae)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-errors-2/#post-8225648)
 * Thank you for your prompt reply.
 * First of all, you will be happy to know that this issue is
    - not
 *  caused by your SVG Support plug-in. The reason that I suspected the plug-in 
   was that, after installing, it was the first time that the SVG graphics were 
   visible in the Media Library and I clicked on View out of interest. It was late
   in the day and I did not have time to start eliminating the various possible 
   causes.
 * I think you will be interested to hear of my findings.
 * All my themes and plug-ins are up-to-date, with Twenty Eleven at Version: 2.5,
   released 15 August, 2016.
 * However, this issue occurs with all plug-ins deactivated and not only with Twenty
   Eleven:
 * Twenty Twelve
    Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\
   htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve\image.php on line 30 Warning: Illegal string
   offset ‘height’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve\
   image.php on line 31
 * Twenty Thirteen
    Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\
   htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentythirteen\image.php on line 46 Warning: Illegal
   string offset ‘height’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\themes\
   twentythirteen\image.php on line 47
 * Twenty Fourteen
    Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\
   htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentyfourteen\image.php on line 31 Warning: Illegal
   string offset ‘height’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\themes\
   twentyfourteen\image.php on line 31
 * Twenty Fifteen
    \Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\
   htdocs\wp-content\themes\twentyfifteen\inc\template-tags.php on line 115 Warning:
   Illegal string offset ‘height’ in H:\XAMPP-2\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-content\
   themes\twentyfifteen\inc\template-tags.php on line 116
 * Twenty Sixteen is clear!
 * Although this leaves you in the clear with your plug-in. I would be interested
   to hear your ideas on why this is happening. I will also do some further digging.
 * On an another issue, I found that the latest versions of WP themes from Twenty
   Eleven up to and including Twenty Fourteen all throw up several CSS3 errors, 
   if you attempt to validate their style.css files on W3. Presumably certain coding
   updates cannot be implemented because of the need to preserve backwards compatibility
   with earlier versions of WordPress.
 *  Plugin Author [Benbodhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbodhi/)
 * (@benbodhi)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-errors-2/#post-8479598)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry for the late reply.
    All of those themes are quite old now, I wouldn’t 
   pay much attention to them really.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-errors-2/#post-8479598)
 * Status: resolved