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8 out of 10 WordPress sites running on a PHP version
are no longer supported if the site owner is not
acting fast.
According to WordPress.org statistics, 26.5% of
WordPress websites are using PHP 5.6. What is the
problem? PHP 5.6 reached end of development on January
19, 2017, and it will officially stop updating on
December 31st. This means it no longer has security
support, and websites that continue to use it could be
exposed to unpatched vulnerabilities.
Next, PHP 7.0, which ended on December 3, 2018. It is
also no longer a supported version of PHP. However,
15.2% of WordPress sites are on PHP 7.0.
If you're thinking, isn't this the newly released PHP
7.0 ?! This is the version two years ago and 11 months
ago. As with any software, PHP has a release lifecycle
that it needs to stick with to keep evolving with new
improvements and features (just like WordPress). Every
major version of PHP is fully supported with security
patches and fixes for two years after its release.
And currently, about 10% of other websites are running
on unsupported old PHP versions, including 5.2, 5.3,
5.4, and 5.5.
So out of total, at the time of writing, up to 70% of
WordPress sites are either running or about to run, a
PHP version is not supported.
Only about 30% of WordPress websites are running on
the latest supported versions PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.3.
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