Is there a way to revert back to a previous version without losing all the data (i.e. ads, groups, etc.)?

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/adrotate/

I was convinced that WordPress is compatible with PHP 5.2.17 while it is not, due to the extensive use of is_a() statement which should have been replaced by instanceof.

I may suppress the error presentation but the performance, of course, will suffer anyway.

Is there any workaround?

Thanks for your support.

Carmine Iaciofano
Area

https://sitename.com/phpinfo.php
Just create a php page that has this:

<?php
phpinfo()
?>

Tonight I straight forwardly said that I needed to upgrade my php to 5.4 do update a key plugin and if this was not possible, I would be moving my hosting elsewhere. He said no problem and put me on hold.

I wanted them to do a account backup prior to doing it just incase but when he came back he had already added the two lines of code.

I suspect it was this
https://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/hardware-software/php-5-4

# Use PHP 5.4
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php

Which I had just tried and it broke the site giving me 500 error page which it also did to him. He put me back on hold and went and did something… and then it started working again.

So yay! Here I go to upgrade.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/threewp-broadcast/

I have now updated WordPress to version 3.8 and the problem still persists.
I have been unable to locate the .htaccess file on the server to check or find any reference to the php version in the WordPress server files.

Can anyone help and please keep it fairly simple.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/noisyox/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/the-online-booking-calendar-widget/index.php on line 12

Kindly assist

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/the-online-booking-calendar-widget/