[Resolved] GP Premium Update Crashed My Site

[Valen]

Hi, I got a notice tonight to update my plugin from you. (I’m using the Premium beta version) As soon as I did, I can no longer access my WP dashboard. Instead, I get this message:

Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in /home/content/68/10171568/html/wp-content/plugins/gp-premium/inc/activation.php on line 353

I’m afraid to delete the plugin as I don’t want to lose everything I’ve done for the site.

GeneratePress 2.0.2

GP Premium 1.5.6

[Tom]

Thanks for reporting this.

The easiest fix is to call your hosting and get them to update your PHP version to at least 5.6. You’re running a very old PHP version which is no longer secure.

I’ll get this fixed in the next beta regardless.

Thanks again!

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[Valen]

Is there another way to fix this? The hold time is over an hour tonight, so I don’t have time that.

[Tom]

The other way would be to upload the GP Premium 1.5.6 files (downloaded in your account) to the wp-content/plugins/gp-premium folder.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Glad it came up in a beta version, and also glad that you’ll be updating your server – PHP 5.3 is very old and vulnerable to hackers.

You won’t lose any of your settings by replacing the current files with the 1.5.6 files.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
Ongoing Development: https://generatepress.com/ongoing-development

[Valen]

Thank you so much! It’s probably good that it happened, so you could point this out to me!

[Tom]

No problem! Your website will be much faster if they update you to PHP 7 🙂

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Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
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