Error after install. College Theme

[mwienold]

I installed College on a clean wordpress install and received the following error message:

Warning: Declaration of Menu_With_Description::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) should be compatible with Walker_Nav_Menu::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = Array, $id = 0) in /home6/wienoldu/public_html/marineleagueschools/wp-content/themes/college/functions.php on line 230

I found a couple other references to this type of error on the forums, but I haven’t seen a resolution other than “its your server’s fault”. If this is the case, can you be more specific? I’m not a programmer, so please be clear what I need to do in order to correct this.

Thanks
Matt

[7Theme Support]

Hi Matt,

you need to contact your hosting provider and ask to turn off PHP error messages and warnings. As soon it is turned off, the message will disappear.

[mwienold]

Isn’t that like removing the check engine light from your car’s dashboard, just because it’s lit all the time?

[7Theme Support]

The problem is that the “Check Engine” also output Warnings, this is not an error and not a problem, only a warning. The real problem is that a hacker can provoke such errors and find weak points on your website, that’s why PHP error messages should always turned off on public websites. For the warning: we added a workaround for all our themes to prevent the notice from your first post, you can use also the most recent version of the theme to remove the notice.

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