Your host is upgrading PHP. Autopilot fixes what would break.

How it works

1. Scan for free with PHP Upgrade Check: every plugin and theme, the exact file and line.
2. Fix automatically: Autopilot first copies the whole plugin to a backup, then rewrites only what newer PHP removed or deprecated. Every change still works on older PHP too.
3. Site check: it loads your home page and your Plugins screen. If either shows an error, the original files go back on their own.
4. Undo with one click, any time.

What it fixes today

$string{0} offsets · PHP 4 constructors · create_function() · nested ternaries · get_magic_quotes_*() · mktime() without arguments · removed filter flags · implicitly nullable parameters (PHP 8.4) · curl_close(), imagedestroy() and other no-op close calls (PHP 8.5) · long cast names (PHP 8.5) · E_STRICT (PHP 8.4) · methods that old code calls statically.

For code that can't be rewritten safely, optional compatibility shims put back each(), ereg(), split(), the common mysql_* functions (through WordPress' own database layer) and mcrypt with Rijndael-128 (AES), byte-compatible so old encrypted data still decrypts.

Not fixed automatically: other mcrypt ciphers (Rijndael-256, Blowfish) and method signatures that no longer match WordPress core. The free report explains those.

Tested on real plugins

• We scanned the code of 3,044 WordPress.org plugins: 1,205 contain something Autopilot can rewrite automatically.
• 16 widely used, abandoned plugins break on PHP 8. In a real WordPress install on PHP 8.5, four of them crashed; after Autopilot all four loaded in our test, and one still has a method-signature problem on an admin screen that needs a developer.
• Each fixed plugin was also loaded on PHP 7.4 to make sure nothing new broke.

Static analysis finds most problems, not all. Always test on a staging copy before upgrading a live site.