Title: php warning message – does not like shortcode
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# php warning message – does not like shortcode

 *  [Steve Hogan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehoganstevehogancom/)
 * (@stevehoganstevehogancom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-message-does-not-like-shortcode/)
 * This morning, after using the plugin for a couple of days without an issue, my
   site suddenly threw a php warning.
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘custom_id’ in /home/steveh8/public_html/tech-
   rx.com/wp-content/plugins/global-content-blocks/gcb/gcb.class.php on line 50
 * When I looked at the code, it is the piece that searches up the short code custom
   string and turns it into the id. The content block was displaying properly on
   the site, but I was seeing this error. When I replaced the custom string with
   the numeric id, the error went away. I cannot see anything wierd in the code.
   Thoughts?
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 * Last reply from: [Steve Hogan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehoganstevehogancom/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-message-does-not-like-shortcode/)
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