Title: PHP 5.4 disables pages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP 5.4 disables pages

 *  [scottshaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottshaw/)
 * (@scottshaw)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/)
 * My WordPress blog is hosted on Bluehost. They recently updated to PHP 5.4, which
   has broken all the page links on my blog. Bluehost support suggested the following,
   neither of which has worked.
    1. updated Permalinks 2. add Velvet Blue plugin
   and update URL’s
 * Any ideas for a fix would be very welcome, as the blog is useless as it is.
 * The blog: [http://scottshaw.org/](http://scottshaw.org/)

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 *  [Lorenzo Orlando Caum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorenzocaum/)
 * (@lorenzocaum)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191904)
 * I tried clicking on a couple of the navigation links and it showed the same page
   each time.
 * Have you tried temporarily turning off all plugins through WP Plugins and then
   turning pretty permalinks on?
 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191906)
 * BlueHost has 5.4 available, but I am still using 5.3 there while trying to prepare
   for 5.4. Do you not have the same option?
 *  [Lorenzo Orlando Caum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorenzocaum/)
 * (@lorenzocaum)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191907)
 * You may still have an option to select PHP 5.3, see this link:
 * [https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/447](https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/447)
 *  [Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scriptrunner/)
 * (@scriptrunner)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191908)
 * I’ve had a few plugins break when Bluehost switched to PHP 5.4. It’s really an
   issue plugin authors should have caught, as it was deprecated in earlier versions
   of PHP:
 *     ```
       Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in...
       ```
   
 *  [Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scriptrunner/)
 * (@scriptrunner)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191909)
 * [http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php](http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php)
 * Call-time pass by reference has been removed.
 *  Thread Starter [scottshaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottshaw/)
 * (@scottshaw)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191913)
 * Thanks everyone! Problem solved. I turned off all plugins, then changed the Permalinks
   setting to post name, saved, then back to default and saved again. Immediately
   after the blog was back to normal. I guess the problem is with plugins, rather
   than the update to 5.4 itself? Anyway, thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [scottshaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottshaw/)
 * (@scottshaw)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191915)
 * PS: when turning the plugins back on one by one, I found the culprit: Photopress.
   Turning it back re-created the problem, while shutting it down fixed it again.
   FYI.
 *  [Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scriptrunner/)
 * (@scriptrunner)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-disables-pages/#post-4191916)
 * Well, both sort of. But it’s really more a case of plugins not keeping up with
   changes in PHP. I’ve had a couple plugins that gave me this error in the last
   few months. We host most of our smaller WordPress sites on Bluehost. One plugin
   I simply rewrote and put on the repository, the other I had to make an emergency
   fix to, but I think the author has updated his plugin now. The call-time pass-
   by-reference removal is the only issue I’ve had with PHP 5.4.

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