Support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 will be dropped in WordPress 7.0, currently scheduled for release in April 2026. The minimum recommended version of PHP will remain at 8.3, but the new minimum supported version of PHP will be 7.4.0…. Continue Reading →
Currently, the WordPress Coding Standard explicitly forbids the use of the PHP short echo tag (<?=) along with the PHP short tag (<?). This post proposes modifying this rule to allow the use of the short echo tag for single… Continue Reading →
PHP 8.5 has now been officially released, and developers naturally want to know what kind of performance improvements they can expect across popular CMSs and frameworks. To find out, we benchmarked 12 widely used CMSs and frameworks, including WordPress, WooCommerce,… Continue Reading →
The current WordPress Coding Standard does not specify which file extensions should be used for PHP files. This proposal establishes that only the .php file extension should be allowed for PHP files. Motivation While web servers like Apache and Nginx… Continue Reading →
I’ve previously written about using Laravel Herd as my preferred PHP development environment. Outside of my day-to-day work, I’m also working with a couple of friends on a project that includes an iOS app that talks to a REST API… Continue Reading →
