create_function Deprecated Problem

You can’t fix this error as that’s coming from one of the theems template files. The authors of your theme need to fix it and release a new version. Please contact them to report this, and ask for their assistance.

I think you missed the first paragraph.

The theme is no longer being updated, hasn’t in several years. I suspect the company is out of business and there’s nobody to contact.

That is no reason not to fix a template file so it can continue to work with newer PHP versions, especially if it’s not a difficult fix.

Peace,
Gene

I didn’t miss it. ??

If you know how to, or can find someone that knows how to, program in PHP, they will be able to fix this by updating the code. Without that knowlege it won’t get changed.

As it’s a custom child theme that’s been built on the top of the Headway theme, which is commercial, no one here will ahve access to the code to know what it does and how it works.

As it’s a child theme, you have the option of going to the authors of the parent theme (Headway) and purchasing the theme from them, so it will have updated and support.

Obviously I posted the error here hoping someone who knows PHP can provide a fix for me.

Third time: The company that made Headway is evidently out of business, so I wouldn’t know whom to contact about this. The support links in my clients WP Dashboard no longer work. That’s why I posted this query here, but clearly you aren’t able to help, so hopefully someone will.

Peace,
Gene

https://headwaythemes.com/

They are still around. Note that’s not the company/person that built your sites theme. This is the comapny that supplies the parent theme that your sites child theme was built on top of. They won’t be able to help for your child theme but they are the ones that supply the parent theme for it, which is where the error that you’re seeing is coming from.

If youwoudl prefer to hire someone to fix it, please post a job on your preferred platform. Job offers are not permitted here.

As I’ve also said before, no one can help you from what you’ve said as there is not enough information, no code examples and nothing that anyone can debug. Without full access to that code, there’s no way that anyone woudl be able to fix it.

The site works, but the last entry is in 2016, and there’s no way to contact anyone.

If you know of a way to contact the individuals involved, thanks.

Still I would hope that the error is sufficient for someone to figure out.

No, we have no budget for something that we hoped would be an easy fix.

Please do not respond any further. I’d like to hear from other people.

Peace,
Gene

OK, here’s another person. You have two choices, with (2) being the much better choice:

1) Edit your wp-config.php file and change define('WP_DEBUG', true); to define('WP_DEBUG', false);. This is the “what I don’t know won’t hurt me” solution, and it will “work” as long as you never update PHP beyond the 7.4 branch. I put “work” in quotes because create_function() has security issues…which is why it was deprecated in PHP 7.2 and removed in PHP 8.0.

2) Hire someone to convert all uses of create_function() to closures. This can’t be done online here because it requires looking at the code to determine how to properly do the conversion(s).

It would be nice if we had the budget.

So far there are at least half a dozen uses of this code in the files I examined, but I only did about three quarters of them.

Peace,
Gene