Upgrade to PHP 8.2 or PHP 8.1 on live sites

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Having now spent nearly three months updating my plugins and themes to support PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 ( #103 ) it's time to actually update the live sites.

This involves switching the active version of PHP from the current version, 7.4.33, to either 8.1.26 or 8.2.13.

• Which version I choose depends on the plugins and themes activated on each site.
• PHP 8.1 went out of active support 7 days ago.
• See https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
• But several 3rd party plugins produce messages with PHP 8.2.
• These are mostly the same as the ones that I had to deal with
• So some sites will need to be on PHP 8.1 for a while.
• PHP 8.1 still has security support until Nov 2024.

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SiteGround's Speed Optimizer plugin v7.4.4 produces several messages with PHP 8.2.
Their AI chat suggested updating to the latest level. Useless answer.

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I was unable to get the messages again on the site I had problems with ( herbmiller.me? ) but I got them after switching to PHP 8.2 on seriouslybonkers.com

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$ignored_query_params is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$bypass_query_params is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$bypass_cookies is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$output_dir is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$logged_in_cache is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$cache_secret_key is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property SiteGround_Optimizer\File_Cacher\Cache::$logged_in_cookie is deprecated in /home/customer/www/seriouslybonkers.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/File_Cacher/Cache.php on line 53

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Message from anchorgolf.com on WordPress updates page

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/customer/www/anchorgolf.com/public_html/wp-admin/update-core.php:520 Stack trace: #0 /home/customer/www/anchorgolf.com/public_html/wp-admin/update-core.php(1118): list_plugin_updates() #1 {main} thrown in /home/customer/www/anchorgolf.com/public_html/wp-admin/update-core.php on line 520