GoDaddy now has PhP 5.6 on Managed WordPress – Anspress 4.0 needs…??
Ok, the previous goDaddy tech support made a mistake php 5.6 isn’t out until Dec. 15th. The tech support guy who correct the previous support person said WP on their blog says 5.3 is the minimum php version and 6.0 is goDaddy’s target but nobody in their right mind would jump to 7.0.
Looking ahead, when goDaddy upgrades to 5.6, will I be safe to upgrade Anspress from 2.4.8 to 3.7 and/or to 4.0?
Thank you.
George
Cagliostro edited comment on answer
Cagliostro commented
There is no PHP 6 !! Who told you that ? ROLF … (goes to godaddy and not you).
And WordPress minimum are set by WordPress and not by godaddy.
https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
Also keep in mind that vs 4 could take a long time to stabilize, while 3.0.7 is stable enough (with some fixes you can get from github).
WordPress is suggesting / moving to PHP 7 and SSL. Totally. They don’t even suggest any hosting company that doesn’t offer by default PHP 7. So PHP 5.6 is …..
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/moving-toward-ssl/
“Separately, I also think the performance improvements in PHP7 are particularly impressive, and major kudos to everyone who worked on that. We will consider whether hosts use PHP7 by default for new accounts next year as well.”