PHP 7 Upgrade WordPress Impact – Important Points for Compatibility

An update is always contain some important fixes and twinks some time it’s become necessary for a software developer to leave old code and write new one to improve performance but it also impact on millions of user in case of PHP 7 and WordPress because hosting companies also have to provide a latest upgrade option to their user.

PHP 7 Upgrade WordPress Impact – Important Points for Compatibility

• Before doing any PHP 7 upgrade make sure check your website with PHP Compatibility Checker Plugin and run plugin test from Dashboard > Tool
• Scan your all of plugin and theme you wish to use after PHP 7 upgrade so any incompatible plugin won’t create problem for future.
• Also you should check if custom php code present into website are they compatible for new PHP 7
• You should take a backup of whole theme and it’s data before engineering it.

After the PHP 5.4 and 5.6 they released PHP 7 because of some issue with version PHP 6 it’s not produced.

• PHP 7 Made for higher performance
• Optimized memory uses
• Now code execution will more faster with same resources and uses
• PHP 7 allow developers to easily error handling.

There are many things done with new version of PHP 7 by zend engine so users can take benefits of it. We still are waiting for more result and users test.

Here is PHP 7 Performance Infographics