From freelancer R.V., I’ve learned the following:

The problem is with the carousel/slider feature by the Specular theme author’s plugin (that is an add-on to the wpbakery plugin with code here “specular-wpbakery-addons/includes/codeless-slider/codeless_slider.php”).

See screen shot of appearance of the homepage with PHP v.8.2 before and after R.V. changed line 241. His changes are shown in above message (8:44 am Ohio time)

broken homepage, prior to R.V.’s change
https://marysadvocates.org/OutsideWordpress/Temp_to_Delete/240319_broken_homepage.png

corrected homepage, after R.V.’s change
https://marysadvocates.org/OutsideWordpress/Temp_to_Delete/240319_correct_homepage.png

web-developer freelancer R.V. says the following: “My recommendation would be to ask the theme author to apply the fix to their plugin in next update.”

When I open this page you made that shows AAA https://marysadvocates.org/aaa/ , I see the carousel/slider feature working properly. However, is this only happening because of the change in the code that web-developer freelancer R.V. made? I described to you how he changed line 241 in my above message (8:44 am Ohio time) “wp-content/plugins/specular-wpbakery-addons/includes/codeless-slider/codeless_slider.php”

I want to avoid the problem of having to hire a web-developer to make a custom update to our site every time we upload a newer version of the Specular theme. From what I understand, if you don’t correct the code on your end in the next update, my carousel/slider feature will keep failing.

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by baimac.

This is customer (baimac). I am trying to avoid having to hire a freelancer web-developer every time you update Specular theme. Can you confirm that whatever you fixed will stay fixed the next time I (or freelancer web-developer) install your future updates of Specular and the carousel/slider feature will not ‘break’ my homepage. Is that right?

Hello,

This is RV, A web developer working for Bai.

The code in your theme’s addon plugin “specular-wpbakery-addons” has one line that causes WordPress fatal error when we have a WordPress installation with PHP 8.2 version.

The file, specular-wpbakery-addons/includes/codeless-slider/codeless_slider.php needs to be updated in future version of your theme so that it does not cause this error.

“Line Old Code New Code
“241
” $extra[‘style’] .= ‘position:absolute; left:50%; margin-left: -‘.($width/2).’px; ‘;
” $extra[‘style’] .= ‘position:absolute; left:50%; margin-left: -‘.(intval($width)/2).’px; ‘; ”

See how the $width has to be supplied as int value in this line.

Please have your development team to take a note of this so they can release the next update with this issue fixed.