WordPress Theme Warning: Illegal sidebar string offset

Question

Can someone help me resolve a couple of PHP errors I'm seeing on my WordPress site?

https://prnt.sc/Gja4uuoyw3-9

These are also lines in the sidebar.php file.

https://prnt.sc/q6ECaim1sjIn

We would be grateful if you could help resolve this issue.

Thank you.

Kind regards, Erica

Answer 1

It seems that $page_meta is not an array, but a string. I'm guessing the theme expects those variable names as meta variables for that page. This also relates to sidebars, whether used or not.

Understood. I googled the theme name smt_getOption and saw this:

/* 大约在第26行 */

/*
原始代码：

$page_meta[ 'sidebar' ] = 'smt_default_sidebar';
$page_meta[ 'sidebar_position' ] = smt_getOption( 'layout', 'pagelayout' );*/

/* 更正后的代码：*/

$page_meta = array('sidebar'=>'smt_default_sidebar','sidebar_position'=>smt_getOption( 'layout', 'pagelayout' ));