Warning/Error in Admin Panel while developing theme

So you have your code in a class, let’s say it looks like this…

<?php
class WPSE82245
{
    public function action_init()
    {
        // do stuff
    }
}

Now you try to hook it into something…

add_action('init', 'array('WPSE82245', 'action_init'));

What happens is when the init hook fires, WordPress tries to call your method. It would similar to if you just wrote this…

WPSE82245::action_init();

But PHP doesn’t like that because you haven’t declare you method static, that is, able to be used without an instance of its container class (like the example directly above).

This makes sense, what if you used $this in your method? Calling it statically would cause a runtime error saying that $this was being used outside an object context.

You can remove the errors by declaring your method static…

<?php
class WPSE82245
{
    public static function action_init()
    {
        // do stuff
    }
}

Or using an instance of your class as the first element of the array the callable argument of add_action.

<?php
class WPSE82245
{
    public function action_init()
    {
        // do stuff
    }
}

$cls = new WPSE82245();
add_action('init', array($cls, 'action_init'));

The above is just an example there are many different ways to instantiate a class in a WordPress theme/plugin.

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