Title: Illegal string offset error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Illegal string offset error

 *  [vahost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vahost/)
 * (@vahost)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-error-2/)
 * I’m getting a series of error messages on a page where I list categories with
   links. Here are the messages (with the path slightly altered for security purposes):
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘title_li’ in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/
   plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line 270
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘hierarchical’ in /home/username/public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line 272
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘use_desc_for_title’ in /home/username/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line
   274
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘hide_empty’ in /home/username/public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line 276
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘show_count’ in /home/username/public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line 278
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘show_last_update’ in /home/username/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line
   280
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘child_of’ in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/
   plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/template-tag-shortcodes.php on line 283
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/)

The topic ‘Illegal string offset error’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/template-tag-shortcodes.svg)
 * [Template Tag Shortcodes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/template-tag-shortcodes/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/template-tag-shortcodes/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/template-tag-shortcodes/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/template-tag-shortcodes/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [illegal string offset](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/illegal-string-offset/)

 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [vahost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vahost/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-error-2/)
 * Status: not resolved