jeffrechten

I see this:

Deprecated: Function wpcf7_remove_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use wpcf7_remove_form_tag instead. in /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 529

Deprecated: Function wpcf7_remove_shortcode is deprecated since Contact Form 7 version 4.6! Use wpcf7_remove_form_tag instead. in /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/functions.php on line 529

I’m not much of a dev so I asked Chat to weigh in. They gave me this working code:

/**
 * Marks a function as deprecated and informs when it has been used.
 *
 * @param string $function_name The function that was called.
 * @param string $version The version of Contact Form 7 that deprecated
 *                        the function.
 * @param string $replacement The function that should have been called.
 
function wpcf7_deprecated_function( $function_name, $version, $replacement ) {
	if ( WP_DEBUG ) {
		if ( function_exists( '__' ) ) {
			trigger_error(
				sprintf(
					/* translators: 1: PHP function name, 2: version number, 3: alternative function name 
					__( 'Function %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since Contact Form 7 version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.', 'contact-form-7' ),
					$function_name, $version, $replacement
				),
				E_USER_DEPRECATED
			);
		} else {
			trigger_error(
				sprintf(
					'Function %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since Contact Form 7 version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.',
					$function_name, $version, $replacement
				),
				E_USER_DEPRECATED
			);
		}
	}
}
*/

function wpcf7_deprecated_function( $function_name, $version, $replacement ) {
    if ( WP_DEBUG ) {
        // Get the backtrace with limited depth for performance
        $backtrace = debug_backtrace( DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS, 2 );
        
        // Initialize caller information
        $caller_info = '';
        
        // Check if the backtrace has the caller's file and line
        if ( isset( $backtrace[1]['file'], $backtrace[1]['line'] ) ) {
            $caller_file = str_replace( ABSPATH, '', $backtrace[1]['file'] ); // Make path relative
            $caller_line = $backtrace[1]['line'];
            $caller_info = sprintf( ' in <strong>%s</strong> on line <strong>%d</strong>.', $caller_file, $caller_line );
        }

        // Prepare the deprecation message
        if ( function_exists( '__' ) ) {
            $message = sprintf(
                /* translators: 1: PHP function name, 2: version number, 3: alternative function name */
                __( 'Function %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since Contact Form 7 version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.', 'contact-form-7' ),
                $function_name,
                $version,
                $replacement
            ) . $caller_info;
        } else {
            $message = sprintf(
                'Function %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since Contact Form 7 version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.',
                $function_name,
                $version,
                $replacement
            ) . $caller_info;
        }

        // Trigger the deprecated error with the enhanced message
        trigger_error( $message, E_USER_DEPRECATED );
    }
}

Hi- I’m having the same exact issue with cf7 up-to-date version.

@takayukister any guidance on what we can do to fix this error? Maybe it would be helpful if you could update contact-form-7/includes/functions.php:531 to print where the offending code is? I’m not able to tell since the error is returning as if there’s an issue with cf7.

There was a unquoted # in the javascript file that was loaded before jquery. With 4.5, that’s not allowed. Quoting it fixed everything.

Thanks for your input, but your username doesn’t have anything to do with security. Not a thing

While I agree with the mods’ general ideas here, it is a bit erroneous to think that a username doesn’t have anything to do with your security. Without multi-factor authentication, it’s exactly 50% of the “things you must have” equation, albeit the half that’s typically less guarded.