Title: Not Compatible With PHP 5.4 And PHP 5.5
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Not Compatible With PHP 5.4 And PHP 5.5

 *  [ranacseruet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranacseruet/)
 * (@ranacseruet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-php-54-and-php-55/)
 * Can you please make the changes to make it compatible with php 5.4/5.5? Currrently
   it shows a lot of erros for these versions of php.
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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-php-54-and-php-55/#post-5246477)
 * Would you please quote the errors you saw? I recently had no trouble with the
   importer under PHP 5.4.
 *  Thread Starter [ranacseruet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranacseruet/)
 * (@ranacseruet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-php-54-and-php-55/#post-5246610)
 * In PHP 5.5, whenver I land on the import page, it shows the following error:
 * `Strict Standards: Declaration of WP_Import::bump_request_timeout() should be
   compatible with WP_Importer::bump_request_timeout($val) in /usr/share/nginx/html/
   dev/codesamplez/web/app/plugins/wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php on 
   line 38`
 * I also checked on 5.4, and got error, but don’t remember the error message, should
   be something similar.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-php-54-and-php-55/#post-5246613)
 * Ok, that’s actually more of a warning than an error.
 * Strict standard really aren’t necessary unless you’re trying to debug something
   that’s actually broken. More often than not, Strict Standards simply catches 
   things that exist the way they are just so they will continue to work in lower
   PHP versions (like 5.2.4 and higher), but could be done differently if you’re
   only supporting the version of PHP currently in use, not necessarily something
   that is actually broken.
 * There are a variety of ways to disable the errors.
 * The best way is to find this in your php.ini file:
 * `error_reporting = E_ALL`
 * and change that to:
 * `error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT`
 * Alternatively, you could add this to your .htaccess file:
 * `php_value error_reporting 30711`
 * They look weird, but both methods disable Strict Standards errors will leaving
   other errors operational.

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