Plugin updates trigger PHP errors and site crashes
Plugin updates cause PHP warnings, fatal errors, or HTTP 500 errors that stop ads or whole sites.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 11 November 2023 · last reported 28 February 2026
What's going wrong
After several updates, site owners report PHP warnings for undefined variables and array keys, a fatal error when a string is used as an array on PHP 8, a fatal class-not-found error tied to a page builder, and HTTP 500 errors that took down several sites at once.
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