Title: Update crashes complete multisite install Last modified: September 1, 2016 --- # Update crashes complete multisite install * Resolved [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * (@johanneseva) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/) * Hi, * Last update crashes my WordPress sites (Multisite) with following error: * `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/polylang/ modules/wpml/wpml-config.php on line 78` * ``` 76 foreach ( $this->xmls as $context => $xml ) { 77 foreach ( $xml->xpath( 'admin-texts/key' ) as $key ) { 78 $name = (string) $key->attributes()['name']; ``` * I hat to deactivate the plugin. I wonder what got wrong – any help welcome! * Cheers, Johannes * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626073) * Hi Could you please tell me what’s your PHP version? * Thread Starter [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * (@johanneseva) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626083) * Hi, thank you for your fast answer 🙂 PHP Version is 5.5.37 * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626120) * I would expect this syntax working on PHP 5.4 and higher (I tested with PHP 5.4). Nevertheless, please update to Polylang 2.0.1. It should fix this error. * Thread Starter [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * (@johanneseva) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626207) * Hello Chouby, * and thank you for the fix and for your fast answer… except it generates another crash: * ``` Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/wpml-config.xml:4: parser error : expected '>' in /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/polylang/modules/wpml/wpml-config.php on line 64 Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: _cas_taxonomy in /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/polylang/modules/wpml/wpml-config.php on line 64 Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ^ in /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/polylang/modules/wpml/wpml-config.php on line 64 Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in /EXAMPLE/wp-content/plugins/polylang/modules/wpml/wpml-config.php on line 79 ``` * Would be grateful for any hint. Cheers, Johannes * Thread Starter [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * (@johanneseva) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626208) * OK, I checked this support thread: [Another fatal error after update from 1.9.3 to 2.0.1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-fatal-error-after-update-from-193-to-201?replies=7) * Deactivating “Content Aware Sidebars” solves the problem for me – is ok as I don’t need it so much as I need polylang. * Keep up with the good work 🙂 * Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/) * (@chrystl) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626214) * Hi Chouby has just proposed a fix to the Content Aware Sidebars: [https://github.com/intoxstudio/content-aware-sidebars/pull/6](https://github.com/intoxstudio/content-aware-sidebars/pull/6) * A quick fix: go in your plugin folder, open the wpml-config.xml then at line 4 remove the ‘s’ at the end of ``: * ``` _cas_taxonomy ``` * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626232) * Polylang 2.0.2 should not break anymore on a malformed wpml-config.xml file. It will just ignore it. * However, as the file is ignored, multilingual features of the corresponding plugin/ theme will not work as expected. * People having WP_DEBUG set to true will see warnings. * Thread Starter [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * (@johanneseva) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626236) * Problem solved in Polylang 2.0.2 – see the mentionned thread for Details. A big thank you to the plugin author! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Update crashes complete multisite install’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/polylang/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3433336) * [Polylang](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/reviews/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Kakemphaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanneseva/) * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-crashes-complete-multisite-install/#post-7626236) * Status: resolved