Title: Perplexing shortcode deprecation issue
Last modified: October 10, 2017

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# Perplexing shortcode deprecation issue

 *  [jeffrechten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffrechten/)
 * (@jeffrechten)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perplexing-shortcode-deprecation-issue/)
 * I am using version 4.9 of Contact Form 7 and experiencing compatibility issues
   with the latest version of WordPress 4.8.2.
 * This topic has been discussed several times in the forum here and it appears 
   that no solution was provided other than “change over to the new versions of 
   the shortcodes”.
 * This makes a lot of sense, especially if they’re deprecated.
 * What makes **no sense** to me is why CF7 version 4.9 wouldn’t have addressed 
   this at all. Why is it required to find and replace function calls in the plugin
   code? Shouldn’t the latest release of this plugin move away from deprecated code?
   Am I really understanding this correctly?
 * Here’s an example: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notice-wpcf7_remove_shortcode-is-deprecated/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notice-wpcf7_remove_shortcode-is-deprecated/)
 * This is the type of error I get:
 *     ```
       Notice: wpcf7_remove_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use wpcf7_remove_form_tag instead. in /home/midwestfivestar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 355
       ```
   

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [jeffrechten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffrechten/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perplexing-shortcode-deprecation-issue/)
 * Status: not resolved