From e0b8653ebd96c597f4293e96bdcd4424b0dbf7c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dion Hulse <dion@wordpress.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 14:35:08 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Title Check: Avoid Deprecated warnings when there's no
 file contents.

---
 checks/class-title-check.php | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/class-title-check.php b/checks/class-title-check.php
index 2d7bae69..b09c24b0 100644
--- a/checks/class-title-check.php
+++ b/checks/class-title-check.php
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@ class Title_Check implements themecheck {
 	 */
 	public function check( $php_files, $css_files, $other_files ) {
 
-		$php = implode( ' ', $php_files );
-
 		foreach ( $php_files as $file_path => $file_content ) {
 
+			if ( empty( $file_content ) ) {
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			// Check whether there is a call to wp_title().
 			checkcount();
 			if ( preg_match( '/\bwp_title\b/', $file_content ) ) {

From 8030fb8f1fbe0ae184a6699c066b5da5111f61af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carolina Nymark <hi@themesbycarolina.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:22:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update class-title-check.php

Check that file_content is a string, both before and after the preg_replace.
---
 checks/class-title-check.php | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/checks/class-title-check.php b/checks/class-title-check.php
index b09c24b0..f76b8720 100644
--- a/checks/class-title-check.php
+++ b/checks/class-title-check.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public function check( $php_files, $css_files, $other_files ) {
 
 		foreach ( $php_files as $file_path => $file_content ) {
 
-			if ( empty( $file_content ) ) {
+			if ( ! is_string( $file_content ) || '' === $file_content ) {
 				continue;
 			}
 
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ public function check( $php_files, $css_files, $other_files ) {
 			// Look for anything that looks like <svg>...</svg> and exclude it (inline svg's have titles too).
 			$file_content = preg_replace( '/<svg.*>.*<\/svg>/s', '', $file_content );
 
+			if ( ! is_string( $file_content ) ) {
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			// Look for <title> and </title> tags.
 			checkcount();
 			if ( ( false !== strpos( $file_content, '<title>' ) ) || ( false !== strpos( $file_content, '</title>' ) ) ) {