Updating PHP for Our WordPress Sites

Announcements

• Yoast SEO 20.5 Drops support for PHP 5.6, 7.0, and 7.1
• Are AI Assistants coming to the block editor soon?

Is there a plugin for that?

With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.

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Zapier for WordPress is a plugin that will help you with your automation. The plugin is a bit old and outdated, but you can use Zapier without needing the plugin.

A few was that I use Zapier:

• When a purchase of a particular product is made, add all the purchaser’s details to a Google Sheet
• When a membership is purchased, send the details to Well World and create them an account (which triggers a new email)
• When someone registers for a webinar add them to ConvertKit
• When someone fills out a form, create a task in Asana with a link to the Google Sheets answer to the form

Updating our PHP Versions

In this episode, we focus on PHP 8.0 and its differences with previous versions. PHP is a high-level programming language that WordPress uses for web and application development. The episode talks about how to transition from older versions of PHP to the newer versions, the differences between each version, and the things that may break when you update a plugin or theme. The episode also stresses the importance of testing before updating and checking for compatibility issues.

Topics covered in the episode:

• Introduction to PHP 8.0
• Overview of PHP as a scripting language
• Upgrading to newer versions of PHP
• Testing the update on a clone site
• Common compatibility issues when updating
• Reaching out to developers for fixes
• Conversations about PHP 7.4 end-of-life
• Differences between PHP versions

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