WordPress To Show Warnings on Servers Running Outdated PHP Versions (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:02AM from the enough-is-enough dept.

The WordPress open-source content management system (CMS) will show warnings in its backend admin panel if the site runs on top of an outdated PHP version. From a report: The current plan is to have the warnings appear for sites using a PHP version prior to the 5.6.x branch (5.6 or lower). The warnings will contain a link to a WordPress support page with information on how site owners can update their server's underlying PHP version. In instances where site owners are running their WordPress portals on top of tightly-controlled web hosting environments, the web host has the option to change this link with a custom URL pointing at its own support site. [...] Around 66.7 percent of all Internet sites run an unsupported PHP version, according to W3Techs. Almost a quarter of all internet sites run on top of a WordPress CMS.

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Deflecting blame by Dracos · 2019-01-15 06:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

Since WP's initial release in 2004, PHP has improved a lot, WordPress has not. WP is the textbook for writing terrible PHP.
Now WP thinks they can shame hosting providers into upgrading PHP, while their own product is insecure by design? Good luck with that.