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Why Is This Important For My Website?

We all want out websites to perform well and be secure for our users. Failing to do so will, over time begin to lose you business and eventually cause your site to break.

So What’s The News?

Worryingly according to the latest WordPress Stats many websites are still running on PHP Version 5.6 and below (see diagram below).

Why Is This Bad?

Well for anyone that reads up on this stuff, you will notice that the latest release is now PHP 7.3. Up until now version 5.6  was the recommended minimal operational version for WordPress websites. However, the PHP community has now released a statement notifying us that PHP5 will receive no more updates and that support for this version will end in the next 2 months.

This means no performance or security patches and that your website will be even more susceptible to attack than it already is. You can read more about this from the recent Wordfence post here

OK So What Do I Need To Do?

Contact your developer/agency and ask them to check which version of PHP your website is using. By minimum, you should now be operating on 7.0. If your not I suggest getting a plan in place to get this done.

The update itself takes but a few moments, however additional development work may be required based on the code structure of your website theme / template and associated plugins.

A Friendly Word Of Advice

Here at Big Gun Digital, we offer our clients on-going retainer packages and services to ensure that both our clients WordPress website, associated plugins and PHP versions are consistently up to date and compatible with required technologies. If you’re looking to relieve yourself from the headache of website management in-house, then get in touch with us today!

For a friendly chat email team@biggundigital.co.uk and we will be happy to help

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