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 ... Publishers Have Until 2022 to Update to PHP 8?

Upgrade statistics compiled days after the WP 5.0 release revealed that 85 percent of WordPress 5.0 users were running their sites on PHP versions of 5.6 and later, hence only a small subset of ...

“I would like to propose we trigger displaying the PHP update widget for users of PHP 5.6 in WordPress. At the time of writing, the WordPress stats show that: PHP 5.6 has a usage share of 29.1% ...

The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins ...

WordPress has released a new version - 6.4.2, that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability. Used in pair with another flaw, hackers could run arbitrary PHP code on a WordPress website, and as ...