Fatal errors and 500 pages after PHP 8 upgrade
Upgrading to PHP 8.x makes the typography plugin throw fatal errors or return HTTP 500 pages, which stop when it is disabled.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 May 2023 · last reported 23 February 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that after moving their sites to PHP 8.0 or 8.3, pages failed with fatal errors or HTTP 500 responses that stopped only when the typography plugin was disabled.
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