Contact Form 7 caused error in WP

  • Resolved john.1111

    (@john1111)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Wordpress sent me an email saying Contact Form 7 caused a fatal error on the site. I wasn’t able to assess my dashboard without using the link they sent for getting into recovery mode. I assessed the site and had to deactivate Contact Form 7.

    the error details are:
    An error of type E_PARSE was caused in line 9 of the file /home/***REDACTED***/plugins/contact-form-7/admin/includes/welcome-panel.php. Error message: syntax error, unexpected ‘print’ (T_PRINT), expecting identifier (T_STRING)

    When I tried to assess the site the error message I got said something about this line 9 was trying to print before it was called so it would always return a FALSE. You can’t print something that’s not there.

    I hope this helps you to fix the issue, you have a great plugin there.
    Thanks

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  • Yep, I just got the exact same error as above?

    Any update on this?

    I had to sneak in safe mode and deactivate it but now it won’t let me activate the plugin.

    Thanks guys!

    Ditto – crashed the backend and had to call support to find the problem. Plugin cannot be reactivated. Think it might be a problem with latest PHP version, but not certain.

    Error details the same as OP’s.

    Thread Starter john.1111

    (@john1111)

    I updated PHP to 7.4 and now no problems with Contact Forms 7, yeaaaa! I did have to update one other plugin though, make sure to backup before updating your PHP. Thanks Takayuki for the tip to update PHP.

    John

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