The called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0

Hi Sriom,

Thank you. We have already fixed this issue https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/issues/184 and the new release will out very soon.

Thanks

Hi saurabhd,

Just wondering when you think the next release will be out?

Thanks

We are planning to release new recent version in this month only.

Any news on this one? When I upgraded to WordPress 4.4 it generated a slew of errors and bumped me out of memory allocation, preventing (among other things) Contact Form 7 from sending emails ??

When I hacked the appropriate two files (both called class-aihrus-widget.php) to the new widget constructor method, everything started working OK (though, bizarrely WordFence is still reporting errors, even though WP_DEBUG isn’t?!?)

Anyway, please could you at least fix this as soon as possible – I don’t wnat to have to hack this on every site! Thanks ??

Hi wwwolf,

We are doing some major changes with existing class names in the plugin and would be releasing soon.

I’m sorry about the troubles and please accept my apologies for the delay.

Thanks

Ouch! Off topic, but please tell me you’ll be providing documentation on the class name changes — all my implementations use significant amounts of site-specific custom CSS, so I’ll need to be really careful with every update. It would be fantastic to have, at the very least, a list of those class names which are removed or have significantly changed properties! Many thanks ??

@subharanjan
Hello, any change you could share a temporary fix for the deprecated issue. I’m having hundreds of these errors in my debug log because of the deprecated use of the WP-Widget, perhaps you could suggest what i temporary can change inside the plugin files? Perhaps change some code lines. Because the error is actually occasionally causing a server error (500)..

I’m not a php programmer, nor a plug-in developer, and I know this simple substitution will not work in all circumstances, but it appears to work OK with this plugin. At least, the plugin still works, and my server errors stopped ??

Back up the plugin.

Then, in these two files:

testimonials-widget/includes/libraries/aihrus-framework/class-aihrus-widget.php
testimonials-widget/includes/libraries/aihrus-framework/includes/class-aihrus-widget.php

change the following line:

$this->WP_Widget(

to read:

parent::__construct(

Bingo!

@subharanjan – are you happy with this for now, or could you improve on it as a temporary fix? Thanks!

Thank you so much for your help @wwwolf.

The fix mentioned above by Wwwolf has already been in the latest release candidate here: https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/tree/3.2.1RC6 . Please download the zip file and install for temporary fix.

Note: We are testing the above RC version and will be releasing soon.