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Home > Software > New minimum PHP recommendation for WordPress is now 7.2

New minimum PHP recommendation for WordPress is now 7.2

WordPress bumped the lowest branch of PHP which is receiving security updates to 7.2 and the lowest branch of PHP which is actively supported to 7.3.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
June 15, 2020
1 min read
New minimum PHP recommendation for WordPress is now 7.2

WordPress announced the ServeHappy API is updated to set the new minimum PHP recommendation for WordPress. According to the announcement, the lowest branch of PHP which is receiving security updates is now 7.2 and the lowest branch of PHP which is actively supported is 7.3. Websites using the older version will now receive an alert from the ServeHappy dashboard widget that urges them to update. According to WordPress stats, 24.3% of WordPress websites using PHP 7.2, 24.7% are using PHP 7.3 and only 4% are using PHP 7.4. Approximately 47% of the websites are using older versions of PHP.

47% using older versions

Adoption of the latest PHP versions will also boost the security for the website owners and for users. Marius Jensen offered the change by a ticket on WordPress.org. Jensen stated,

“Currently, the ServeHappy dashboard widget is showing the upgrade notice to uses of PHP 5.6 or lower.

After discussing with the core Site Health team, and the Hosting Team, it has come up that the most sensible next move is to show the upgrade notice to users of PHP <=7.1 (this means setting ACCEPTABLE_PHP to 7.2)

Looking at the numbers, we’re seeing roughly 25% of sites running a WordPress version that includes ServeHappy would then get an upgrade notice.

Along with this, the attached patch also updates other relevant versions numbers for the SUPPORTED_PHP and SECURE_PHP versions which relate to the actively supported, and security updates only versions respectively.”

Sergey Biryukov from the WordPress team responded to the ticket and made the change and the official announcement.

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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