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newly released PHP 7.2 makes WordPress faster

PHP 7.2 was released late last year, and is now recommended by https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/. 75% WordPress sites are still using PHP 5.x according to https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ I just thought I’d make a comparison of performance of a few recent versions of PHP. This is a comparison of the WordPress page load speed. This isn’t the whole page loading in the […]

smarter, safer, faster, more secure php for WordPress whm/cpanel webhosting

I’ve written about this before, but I have new ideas, but I’ll start with a short recap. WordPress needs to be able write to the FileSystem for things like updates, new plugins, caching. But , for a large proportion of web requests, WordPress really only needs read-only access to the filesystem. (more detail here). What […]