Saving widget rules crashes on PHP 8 and fails
Saving a widget's display rules throws a fatal error, a 500 page, or a blank screen on PHP 8 sites, and the widget can revert to static.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
6 public reports · first reported 14 November 2019 · last reported 5 March 2024
What's going wrong
Site owners across several years report that saving a widget's display conditions causes an error screen. Some see a fatal error and a blank page, others see a server error or warnings that break the admin page. On PHP 8 sites, the failure is most frequent. One owner reported that the widget was converted to a static widget after the error, with no way to restore the rule. Others had to reload the page or downgrade PHP to get past it. Owners need a dependable save path and a way to know when the save step will fail, before the site breaks.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Dynamic Widgets.
Related problems
Who has this problem
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