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Version 6.4.9.7 on WP 4.7 does not work either.

I’m experiencing the same issues as well. It looks like the same issue may apply to WordPress 4.6 as well, though not 100% confirmed.

Just to close the loop on this, I updated the server to PHP 5.4.2, updated the plugin and all worked well.

Thank you for identifying the root of the issue.

No worries. I know I should update PHP – this shared host is a bit behind the times still.

My comment referencing WordPress support being within the plugin updater itself. For example, they say that there are X number of plugins that need to be updated. But my WordPress install should know what version of PHP I am on, and if your plugin isn’t compaitable with my PHP version it should not allow me to update the plugin. Maybe display an info box like “this plugin has an update but given your version of PHP it is not possible to update it at this time”. Something like that. But again, I’m quite certain that is a WordPress feature that is not available at this time.

Thank you MW Delaney,

Yes, my server is on PHP 5.2.17.

I’m guessing this is a WP limitation, but it’d be nice if WordPress didn’t suggest that I update to a version of the plugin that isn’t compatible with the server…

I downloaded bootstrap-3-shortcodes version 3.3.6 via Github, added it to my plugins directory and the site is functional again and the shortcodes are functioning correctly again.

I am an admin on my site and could turn off the random Google search boxes.

However I’ve gone one step further and turned off the entire plugin. The way I see it, the developer doesn’t have the same vision or ethics as me and this I don’t want to utilize this any longer.

I am not a huge fan of social buttons already to be honest… I know every best practice article says they need to be there, but Facebook in particular does slow down page load time, and looking at the stats from this plugin, no one uses the buttons on my site.

For now I’m going without. I’m quite certain there are other plugins to do the same that I may explore some day… But for now my page looks much better without these ugly seldom used buttons.

You sir, are a life saver.

You are right, that it’s a simple PHP array syntax to retrieve the data. The key for me here was that I could use that same PHP syntax as the name field and that would save back to the WP database for me. That saved me a huge amount of headache and work for how I figured I’d have to solve this problem…

Thanks so much for posting this! If this information is elsewhere on the internet, I wasn’t able to find it.

I’ve manually added a @ sign to line 42 through 44 to suppress the error message. The plugin still works fine this way.

If others have a better fix than this bandaid I’m all ears though!

I agree – this plugin is awesome with the exception of the error message that shows on the live site and the wp-admin.

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\xampp\htdocs\annblog2\wp-content\plugins\crop-from-top\crop-from-top.php on line 42

Any thoughts on a fix?