Plugin requires PHP 8 and breaks older sites
Plugin dropped support for PHP 7.x, so sites on older PHP versions break after an update.
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8 public reports · first reported 17 September 2024 · last reported 10 March 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that the Meta pixel plugin dropped support for older PHP versions, including 7.3 and 7.4, without much notice. After an update, sites running those versions crashed or stopped working. Some owners say other plugins in their stack still need the older runtime, so they cannot upgrade PHP yet. Others point out that auto-updates made the break happen silently. The opportunity is a compatibility checker that flags plugin PHP requirements before an update and tests the change on a copy of the site first.
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Products affected
Meta pixel for WordPress.
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Who has this problem
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