Last update seems broken

Version 1.5.5 is broken indeed. My apologies. I did a wrong copy. I’ve fixed it in 1.5.6. Be sure to delete everything withing the dynamic-widgets folder.

I have updated to 1.5.6 a few seconds ago.

It broke my site completely. When trying to access, it says:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_submenu_page() in /htdocs/web/wp-content/plugins/dynamic-widgets/dynamic-widgets.php on line 633

What do you recomend? As you will understand, it is a serious problem that has to be fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks.

I’ve deleted the Dynamic Widgets folder and replace all the files with the files from my backup from the 1.5.4 version.

Now it runs ok with the 1.5.4 version, but obviously it wants me to update to 1.5.6, so I will wait for the next update 1.5.7 or whatever number it is.

Your host is probably not meeting the requirements anymore. For version 1.5.6 the minimum PHP version has been changed to 5.2.7. See also the changelog.

Yes, it’s php 5.2.6.

Just one question: there are a lot of hostings that are still running php versions previous to mine. Will you release any version compatible to those 5.0 to 5.2.6?

No, I won’t do that. See the changelog why.

PHP 5.2 has reached end of life on January 2011.

Ok, thanks

I understand the reasoning, and can sympathise from my own experience with the pain of supporting your code on outdated platforms.

But I can’t help thinking that simply breaking people’s sites (admin and content) rather than, say, giving a warning message and deactivating the plugin, feels a bit user-unfriendly.

I agree and actually it should give that warning. However, that’s a bug currently. Hence the fatal error message in post reply #3.

Thanks – I’m trying to get my client (my brother!) to get his hosting upgraded to PHP 5.4, but am reliant on the folks at Church of Ireland Hosting Services to action that. In the meantime I managed to deactivate the plugin via ssh and get 1.5.4 reinstalled for now.

I’m quite a newbee and I have the same problem here…My site is also completely broken, it gives the same fatal error as Goodvalley. I really need to fix it quick off course (as you all want to fix yours quick I guess), but I have no idea how.
Can anyone help me with this please? What should I do to get my site back?

Delete the dynamic-widgets directory under the plugins directory. WordPress detects the plugin is gone and will disable it.

But, how am I able to do that? I don’t have any access to the site anymore.

This is the site: https://www.growingupbilingual.org/ It only gives a fatal error.

Don’t you have access to the site via FTP or some control panel?

Ehm, I don’t think so… I’m not the one who made the site and I can’t reach him right now, so I normally only have acces via the site itself.