Site wouldn’t load until SEO Framework disabled

  • Resolved hellothereuk

    (@hellothereuk)


    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    I had to contact my hosting company today because my site wouldn’t load. They got it working and told me it now loads because they’ve disabled the ‘autodescription’ plugin, which seems to actually be SEO Framework? My PHP log shows multiple errors coming from the plugin too:

    [05-Mar-2024 09:42:51 UTC] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/regency1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autodescription/inc/functions/api.php on line 113

[05-Mar-2024 09:42:51 UTC] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/regency1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autodescription/inc/functions/api.php on line 113

[05-Mar-2024 09:42:52 UTC] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/regency1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autodescription/inc/functions/api.php on line 113

[05-Mar-2024 09:43:09 UTC] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/regency1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autodescription/inc/functions/api.php on line 113

    Any ideas how to fix it? Everything was running fine yesterday, but I can’t have the site not loading!

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    Have you just updated TSF?

    TSF v5.0 or higher requires PHP 7.4 or higher. If you update the plugin or activate it outside the standard plugin management interfaces, you can bypass that requirement, and your site could crash.

    The PHP Group no longer supports PHP 7.4, but we chose that minimum because still too many sites use that version. Any version older than PHP 7.4 shouldn’t even be considered for sites in production. I recommend updating to PHP 8.2 (or 8.1 if you experience issues with 8.2).

    Please see https://www.ads-software.com/support/update-php/.

    Thread Starter hellothereuk

    (@hellothereuk)

    I don’t know what TSF is, would I have explicity have to have gone in and changed it? If so, no. I’ve not edited any of the SEO Framework settings for months as it does such a good job doing its thing in the background.

    I’ll ask my hosting if they can try changing the php to 8.1 or 8.2

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    TSF is an acronym we use for “The SEO Framework.”

    This isn’t a settings issue but a server issue.

    WordPress itself wouldn’t have allowed you to update to TSF v5.0 or later for PHP compatibility reasons. Perhaps your host forced an upgrade of the plugin for security reasons, though TSF hasn’t been susceptible to those in a decade.

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