Our business website uses WordPress. We have a theme bought from the market place and Elementor for page designs. The whole setup costed us something below 200$ & we are happy with the way the site delivers all our needs (not forgetting dozens of plugins that we use for basic features)

Recently we noticed “Elementor” throwing few errors while the pages were getting loaded. Errors were like “Deprecated: _register_skins is deprecated since version“. A quick Google search landed us on this discussion & rolled back Elementor to a previous version as suggested by one of the users and expected no further issues.

We were wrong. We started getting serious issues related to Jetpack, a plugin that is provided by “Automatic”, WordPress’s own repository. Our pages started showing some weird messages while loading and we were completely denied WordPress Admin page access. Our hosting company renamed the plugin folder & we were able to log on and disable Jetpack plugin, which was not recommended by many.

Much of the Jetpack related errors were like get_name(), get_title(),get_description(),get_long_description(),get_features(),get_pricing_for_ui(),get_manage_url() should not be abstract in & Warning: Cannot modify header information…

Then I remembered about a PHP related warning I have noticed during the last admin panel visit. WordPress was recommending PHP upgrade as they were in the process of stop supporting PHP 5.x versions. So I approached our hosting & asked them to upgrade the available PHP options for us. Once after they installed the latest available versions, we switched to PHP 7.4 (7.3 is deprecated already) from 5.6 . Proceeded with enabling Jetpack and upgraded Elementor to latest.

Everything started working as expected. So if you started facing Elementor or Jetpack related errors all of a sudden, before breaking your head anywhere else, check the version of PHP & give a try by upgrading it to one of the not deprecated versions.