Use of depracated function call like_escape

I have just had a conflict when searching for a short term ‘eis ‘ in the wordpress search, this Notice: like_escape is deprecated since version 4.0! Use wpdb::esc_like() instead.

so I replaced :

$search_term = like_escape( esc_sql( $search_term ) );

with :

$search_term = $wpdb->esc_like( esc_sql( $search_term ) );

on line 874 of controllers/controller-frontend.php

Please can you update the code to use this new method (with fallbacks for older versions of WP).

https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2014/06/20/like_escape-is-deprecated-in-wordpress-4-0/

Thanks,

Andrew

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