WP 3.9: Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string

Hi Andrew,

Have you first tried disabling all of your plugins?

I did, but it looks like the theme is the culprit.

Is there any easy way to revert to 3.8.3?

Have you tried to switched to another theme just to conclude that it’s really a theme issue?

Yes, it was the theme.

I have successfully reverted to 3.8.3 until the theme author fixes this issue.

This is the same issue that I’mchaving, I guess I need to contact the theme author as well.

I found a quick fix…

On in /wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line 193

Change:
if ( false === strpos( $content, '[' ) ) {

To:
if ( false === strpos( (string) $content, '[' ) ) {

Basically just cast the $content variable as a string

Is this additional code that’s added in WordPress 3.9? I want to test this code out, but I’m not seeing if ( false === strpos( $content, ‘[‘ ) ) { in in my shortcodes.php file.

It should be there…
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/branches/3.9/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php#L193

I went back to 3.8.3 when the issue occurred, so I see it will be there in 3.9 so that I can go ahead and make the changes.

Webstract Marketing – thanks, this fixed it. These auto updates are a pain in the ….. Can’t really blame the theme makers – how are they supposed to keep up?

im having the same issue it shows only in my contact us page where i added the buildin wordpress contact form maybe it has somthing to do with that?

Change:
if ( false === strpos( $content, ‘[‘ ) ) {

To:
if ( false === strpos( (string) $content, ‘[‘ ) ) {

Basically just cast the $content variable as a string

this didn’t fix my issue for some reason

ops…. never mind it worked! thanks!

Thanks for the fix @webstract Marketing. If you google the error you get tons of sites, must be a 3.9 bug.

Wouldn’t this fix be erased whenever we update wordpress? I was using TwentyTwelve and got this issue. Alterantively perhaps it will be fixed in the next update to 3.9.

What theme?

Also, what is the context here? What is the content of the post where this shows up at?