Disabling Strict Standards Errors in WordPress 3.7 with PHP 5.4 Disabling Strict Standards Errors in WordPress 3.7 with PHP 5.4 wordpress wordpress

Disabling Strict Standards Errors in WordPress 3.7 with PHP 5.4


In Wordpress 3.7, the function wp_debug_mode (defined in wp-includes/load.php, and called from wp-setings.php) sets error_reporting( E_ALL ).

Since wp-settings.php is itself loaded at the end of wp-config.php, you cannot change this setting from wp-config.php (or rather, you can, but it will be overridden).

A solution is to create a "Must Use plugin", that is to say a .php file located in the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder containing :

<?phpif (WP_DEBUG && WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY) {   ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED);}


I found that only

error_reporting = off

works, as STRICT errors have become part of ALL as of PHP 5.4 which is annoying.


If you set WP_DEBUG to 'false' in wp-config.php file. These do not affect your website.

Bot the problem is that above does not work sometime.That can happen on cheap/shared hostings that force displaying PHP ERRORS, warnings and notices.In that case, you can remove this line from your wp-config.php file:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

and place this:

ini_set('log_errors','On');ini_set('display_errors','Off');ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );define('WP_DEBUG', false);define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

in my case its working.