Hey @davidwoods,
I’m sorry for the trouble here. The trouble with the “[” is odd because that should work fine in version 5.3 of PHP…weird!
I left other notes on your Review that I will leave here as well –?I do hope that you can try upgrading to 1.10.0, and while you mention not having control over your PHP version, if you haven’t already I’d recommend contacting their customer support and asking for a version increase. Many hosts can offer higher versions of PHP but just don’t by default unless folks ask. You never know! Now, as for my comments from your review:
I’m really sorry to hear that this caused such an annoyance for you.
I’d like to mention that I just published a 1.10.0 release that should fix the problems related to slideshow images not appearing and such.
I wrote about the release a bit here → https://portfolioslideshow.com/release-1-10-0/
As for the plugin “breaking your entire site”, this is not something I’ve heard any other reports of and indicates other issues on your site. Did any PHP errors display on your site?
Finally, for now, PHP 5.4 is not required – 5.3 is, so it should work on your hosting environment.
Just some thoughts – please share more of yours here and hopefully you can find the plugin useful on your site again.
— George