WordPress 3.7 through 4.0 reached their EOL
As of today, December 1st, the WordPress security team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress 3.7 through 4.0. This move will basically end these version life.
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WordPress Page Builders – November 2022
WordPress page builders are becoming more and more popular every year. A new infographic from DisplayWP shows the size of the market and the adoption rate by WordPress websites.
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WordPress 5.9 ZIP File Size Skyrocketed by 25%
The largest file increase ever recorded in WordPress history, the total ZIP file add over 4MB. The size of the ZIP file passed 20MB for the first time.
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WordPress Infographic – September 2021
Last year, DisplayWP released its first WordPress infographic. This year, a fresh infographic is available with comparative statistics and a bunch of new data.
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WordPress Infographic – September 2020
New WordPress infographic with new stats revealed for the first time. Total releases, total downloads, supported versions ratio, release cycle efficiency, gender ratio in version naming and more.
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WordPress Upgrades Minimum Required PHP version to 7.2
WordPress finally dropped support for PHP 5.x. As of yesterday, the minimum required PHP to run WordPress is PHP 7.2.
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Proposal to Upgrade the Minimum Requirements
A long awaited proposal was raised by Gary Pendergast to upgrade the WordPress Minimum Requirements.
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WordPress Market Share is now 30%
W3Techs reports that WordPress has reached 30% usage in the content management systems market.
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Decline in usage of unsupported PHP versions
Six months ago, in July 2017, over 80% of all active WordPress sites used unsupported PHP versions. Today only 32% are using old versions. Huge improvement over a short time.
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WordPress Market Share is now 29%
Another milestone for WordPress, according to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, WordPress passed the 29% market share.
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MariaDB Penetrates the WordPress World
WordPress originally developed using MySQL databases but currently over 5% of all active installs are using MariaDB. An increase of 25% since the beginning of the year.
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SWFUpload to be Removed from WordPress
WordPress 4.9 will remove the SWFUpload open-source library from core. Will that affect the total amount of External Libraries? surprisingly not!
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WordPress Market Share is now 28%
Today, according to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, WordPress passed the 28% market share.
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WordPress Market Share is now 27%
According to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, today WordPress passed the 27% market share.
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Ending the support of PHP 5.5
Next week, on July 10th, the support of PHP 5.5 will end, this means that next week 80% of all the active WordPress websites will use unsupported PHP versions.
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