Today, while creating a brand new course for RankYa Fans, I got this warning message in my WordPress Dashboard
Your Site Could be Faster and More Secure with a Newer PHP Version
If you are also seeing this WordPress Dashboard warning message and want to change the PHP Version on your Web Hosting cPanel, then simply follow these steps:
Contact your web hosting company to get them to change it for you as most modern web hosting companies will do that at no charge to you to keep you as their customer happy. But if you want to tackle it yourself, then do this:
- Login to Your Web Hosting Account
- Locate ‘Select PHP Version’
- Note Down Current PHP Version (because you can always revert back if something goes wrong)
- Change PHP Version to 7.0 (or 5.6)
- Save Changes
- Visit Your Website and double check if all is okay (if not revert back to previous PHP Version)
Options for Changing to Newer PHP Version 7.0 in Crazy Domains Web Hosting
Login to Your Crazy Domains Web Hosting Account (here’s help section)
Then change to desired PHP Version (preferably the Version 7.0 as recommended by WordPress) and set as default
Options for Changing PHP Version in GoDaddy Web Hosting
For GoDaddy Linux Self Hosted WordPress sites (depending on your web hosting package you signed up for, you may not have Version 7.0 available, if so, set it to 5.6 at minimum)
Options for Changing to Newer PHP Version 7.0 in DreamHost Web Hosting
- Login to DreamHost Control Panel
- Domains > Manage Domains > Web Hosting (Edit)
- Locate Web Options and change to PHP 7.0 FastCGI
Video Tutorial for Fixing Your Site Could be Faster and More Secure with a Newer PHP Version Message in WordPress CMS Dashboard
As with all software, they get updated often as technology evolves, PHP is no different, so if your web hosting allows you the option to change the PHP Version your WordPress site is built upon, then upgrade it because it is better and faster for PHP processing.
