# Error msg libxml\_disable\_entity\_loader

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-msg-libxml-disable-entity-loader/185883>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-msg-libxml-disable-entity-loader/185883 "2021-04-07T13:19:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-msg-libxml-disable-entity-loader/185883/4 "2021-04-08T22:56:55Z")

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Hey @Romain_Bisseret,

The issue here is arising because your hosting provider has disabled a PHP function called [` libxml_disable_entity_loader`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-disable-entity-loader.php), which is used in the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin.

That function is used in a wide variety of Wordpress plugins, and is fully supported in PHP 7.\*, however it has been deprecated in PHP 8.0. We’ll be deprecating it in the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin in the near future, alongside other work to ensure full compatability with PHP 8.0; in fact, I’m pushing that up my todo list.

Could you confirm:

1. The version of the PHP you’re using (sorry I wasn’t clear by your reference to PHP 7 if you mean that’s the version you’re running)

2. Your hosting provider. It may be worth asking them about enabling this on your instance(s). The function is a supported function in PHP 7.\*.

Thanks.

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