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WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8 Compatibility

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP 8 ...
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As End of Life Nears, More Than Half of Websites Still Use PHP V5

Support for PHP 5.6 drops on December 31 – but a recent report found that almost 62 percent of websites are still using version 5. Almost 62 percent of all websites are still running PHP version 5 – ...
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WordPress Proposes Plan for 61% of WP Sites Using Outdated PHP

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues. Except ...
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Around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks

But on December 31, 2018, security support for PHP 5.6.x will officially cease, marking the end of all support for any version of the ancient PHP 5.x branch. This means that starting with next year, ...