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Information page about PHP versions and updates, to be used through the WordPress.org project.
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2996
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Updates #27

Open schlessera opened 6 years ago

felixarntz commented 6 years ago

What is this about?

schlessera commented 6 years ago

Before proceeding with the PHP upgrade, you should run all the latest updates for WP core, your theme and your plugins, to make sure you got any potential compatibility updates/fixes.

felixarntz commented 6 years ago

Summary from https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/10/20/php-meeting-recap-october-16th/:

As these updates can also break the site without even getting to the PHP part, this point should therefore mentioned after the “Backup and rollback plan” point. In regards to that, it may be helpful to recommend doing an extra backup after everything has been updated (still before the PHP upgrade) – however only if storing multiple backups is possible with the solution the site owner is using for their backups.