{"id":19031201,"date":"2026-09-28T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/new-release-crashes-wordpress-instances-below-php-8-3\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:53:29","slug":"new-release-crashes-wordpress-instances-below-php-8-3","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/new-release-crashes-wordpress-instances-below-php-8-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New release crashes wordpress instances below PHP 8.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried updating the plugin from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3 and it proceeded to crash my entire WordPress instance. My site is on PHP 8.2.33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the problem is that you have made the nonce static and initialised it with a function call, that&#8217;s only supported from 8.3 onwards, but your plugin falsely claims it&#8217;s still supporting PHP versions from 7.4 onwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.variables.scope.php<\/p>\n<cite>Prior to PHP 8.3.0, static variables could only be initialized using a constant expression. As of PHP 8.3.0, dynamic expressions (e.g. function calls) are also allowed<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you please fix this by either upping the minimum PHP version for the plugin, or defining the nonce in a different way? Thanksss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19031201","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19031201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19031201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}