[tbelldesignco]

I believe it has to do with how Wordpress constructs themes and plugins and with PHP 8 there are significant improvements in the constructor function that makes it so you don’t have to implement a bunch of “boilerplate” code to begin initializing properties.

There were some hefty hiccups with the upgrade from PHP 6 to 7 and Wordpress and how the script package interacted with .htaccess and some of the other url rewriting components.