Title: PHP Error re: Extension Manager
Last modified: October 19, 2018

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# PHP Error re: Extension Manager

 *  Resolved [Summer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmsummer/)
 * (@fpmsummer)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/)
 * Hello!
 * I do not have Extension Manager installed, since I don’t see any of the extensions
   as items I need. But now I’m noticing an error msg popping up now and then:
 * `opendir(/wp-content/plugins/the-seo-framework-extension-manager): failed to 
   open dir: No such file or directory`
 * Is there a new requirement that I must have Extension Manager installed in order
   to keep using SEO Framework? Couldn’t I just choose to disable any checks for
   Extension Manager if I don’t have any extensions installed?

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 *  [Pierre LeBaux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lebaux/)
 * (@lebaux)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10795611)
 * Hi [@fpmsummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmsummer/)! TSFEM is not
   required to run TSF. Can I ask, where the error message pops up for you? I have
   couple of sites that have only TSF installed, and I never saw the error message
   in frontend/backend.
 *  Thread Starter [Summer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmsummer/)
 * (@fpmsummer)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10796311)
 * I’m seeing it in reports generated by Query Monitor (I’m currently troubleshooting
   one site for a different problem).
 * Over the past week, I’ve seen it pop up in there under “PHP Errors” now and again,
   so it’s not a fluke activation related thing.
 * I don’t see it in every back end admin action, but it is a repeating event.
 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10796354)
 * Hi there 🙂
 * Do you get this error on the plugins overview page in your admin dashboard?
    
   And, is the server you’re getting these errors on Windows-based?
 * The only call TSF makes is silenced by WordPress– which means it should never
   output an error. So, I’m a bit confused about this behavior.
 * TSF only looks for the plugin’s existence to remove the (easily missed) link 
   to the plugin’s page (because you’d already have it installed), it’s completely
   independent of it otherwise.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/).
      Reason: explaining what it does
 *  Thread Starter [Summer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmsummer/)
 * (@fpmsummer)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10798137)
 * I poked around a little bit more, and it happens whenever I activate or deactivate
   a plugin, any plugin.
 * It displays as a PHP Error in the reports produced by the Query Monitor plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10800024)
 * Thanks for all the info!
 * I have poked around in this issue, and I did find a way to prevent this from 
   happening:
    [https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/374](https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/374)
 * This enhancement will be shipped in a future version.
 * For now, you can safely ignore this error.
 * Showing this error is not intended or even expected behavior in PHP. The PHP 
   configuration might be a little too sensitive on this. There’s probably a feature
   enabled which helps developers find issues:
    [http://php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.track-errors](http://php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.track-errors)
 * When such issues occur, we can choose to silence them. This is exactly what WordPress
   does, and it’s what I chose to utilized as a feature in the code.
 * For more in-depth dev information, see:
    [http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php](http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php)

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-re-extension-manager/#post-10800024)
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