Site Broken After Upgrading from SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle 1.60.0

Greetings,

This has been an issue for quite a while, but I figured it would get worked out over time so never sought support.

Our WP site is running the Sportix theme with the SportsPress and Sportix Features plugins. Whenever we update from SiteOrigin Widget Bundle 1.60.0 to any of the more recent versions, our site breaks in a big way.

With DEBUG set to true, we get the following error messages:

1)

There has been a critical error on this website.

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2)

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/base/inc/post-selector.php:114 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/sportixfeatures/so-widgets/sportix-post-list/tpl/sportix-post-list-template.php(6): siteorigin_widget_post_selector_process_query() #1 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php(227): include(‘…’) #2 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/renderer.php(890): SiteOrigin_Widget->widget() #3 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/renderer.php(1261): SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer->the_widget() #4 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/renderer.php(1229): SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer->render_widget() #5 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/renderer.php(1138): SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer->render_cell() #6 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/renderer.php(587): SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer->render_row() #7 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/siteorigin-panels/inc/widgets/layout.php(52): SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer->render() #8 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php(394): SiteOrigin_Panels_Widgets_Layout->widget() #9 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/widgets.php(845): WP_Widget->display_callback() #10 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/themes/sportix/footer.php(7): dynamic_sidebar() #11 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/template.php(810): require_once(‘…’) #12 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/template.php(745): load_template() #13 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/general-template.php(92): locate_template() #14 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/themes/sportix/page.php(41): get_footer() #15 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include(‘…’) #16 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once(‘…’) #17 /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/index.php(17): require(‘…’) #18 {main} thrown in /var/www/reddingcolt45s.com/public/wp-content/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/base/inc/post-selector.php on line 114

I’m thinking this is some sort of incompatibility with our theme (Sportix) and its related plugins (SportsPress and Sportix Features). In fact, disabling the “Sportix Features” plugin removes the fatal error, but then we lose necessary widgets for our site.

I’ve tried manually reinstalling SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle, as well as all of the Sportix + SportsPress files, but no luck.

This is most certainly an issue related to plugins packaged with our theme, and I’ll reach out to them for info as well, but if anyone has any additional thoughts or ideas about why the Widgets Bundle is currently upset then that would be helpful.

— Chad