


I’ll ignore the small percentage of sites still running on PHP 4.x. Here’s a quick history of relevant PHP versions, meaning 5.0 and upwards. It’s important to keep in mind that the rest of these numbers will be mostly applicable to shared hosting, only. There are of course WordPress installations on custom servers, managed systems, … etc, but they will account for a small percentage of all WordPress installations.

It’s a good thing WordPress can auto-update, or the web would be doomed. Since most of the WordPress installations are on shared hosting, it’s safe to assume they are done once, never looked at again. These stats are gathered by WordPress anonymously.

PHP versions in 2015 $ curl | jq '.'ģ versions stand out: PHP 5.3 is still used in 20.2% of all installations, PHP 5.4 on 30% and PHP 5.5 is at 19%.īut if they’re all considered end of life, why do they still account for 76% of all WordPress installations? Prologue: Shared Hosting It uses jq for JSON formatting at the CLI. Here’s the current statistics in PHP versions used in WordPress installations. It shows some interesting numbers that warrant some extra thoughts. It does not store any personal data.WordPress offers an API that can list the PHP versions used in the wild. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
