Hi
I Would like to speed up my site and go on PHP 7 from my actual PHP 5.6
I get a shared premium Hosting with OVH that workd really well.
All (non newsmag) plugins are compatible with PHP 7: AdRotate, Advanced Custom Fields Pro, Akismet, SEO Redirection, WP Rocket and Yoast SEO
Questions are:
1) Is the Newsmag theme compatible with PHP 7?
2) Are the newsmag plugins I have activated compatible with PHP 7?
– tagDiv Social Counter
– WPBakery Visual Composer
3) due to your experience there is a way to proper way to proceed to this migration?
Thanks in advance
Fabrizio
Hi
Unfortunately our themes were not tested with PHP 7. There might be some elements that will not work anymore as code gets deprecated in newer versions. I’m not saying this is the case, but there could be compatibility issues. There might not be any errors at all or there could be lots of them. We are unsure as we have not tested our themes with it yet. You could try it out and run a few tests to see if everything is in order but we can’t make any recommendation at the moment.
Thanks!
I’ll be moving to PHP7 in May/June and will have some feedback then, also. Others seem to already be blazing the trail with TagDiv themes, so maybe a sticky on this might be useful.
Also note — you *can* clone your setup (make full backup of mysql dbase, etc), then switch on PHP7 and see if it works or not. Most modern hosting platforms (Plesk, cPanel, etc.) allow you to “choose” a PHP version on a “per site” basis for compatibility with 5.4, 5.6, 7, Meaning, you could make full backup, turn on PHP7, see if it works, if not, roll back to 5.6; if broken, do restore; back in business.
(IN your hosting panel, for PHP, there should be option on modern systems to use drop down selector to specify which version of PHP to run for the specific domain; same place you’d set max upload file sizes, etc.)
I’ll be doing that very thing soon. We’re debating an OS reinstall on our servers to get http/2 for Apache, and PHP7; both of which will combined speed up WordPress sites by potentially 30% (!) — or more — or just getting new servers. Pain is reinstalling or migrating sites.
Summer vacation ? What the hell is THAT ? 🙂
Checking the changelog for Visual Composer is good place to check on compatibility with PHP7.
As of January, there was still the issue with VC and PHP7:
A problem related to this piece of code:
PHP Notice: Array to string conversion. in that line of code:
$param_value = isset( $$param['param_name'] ) ? $$param['param_name'] : '';
that code used in a lot of files in js_composer/include/classes/shortcodes/ folder.
Thanks Chris S
Very interested on speed up my news site but waiting for others experience 🙂
I get 9 years of post (over 17.000) and comments (over 46.000) 4 GB of data and a DB of 180 MB
Experiments on this site takes a long long time.
Let me know your experiments results.
Thanks
Fabrizio
Yeah. Our main site online 16 years, and #2 site 11 years. So, right there with you! 🙂
Of course, we turn VC “off” and use the “Radu Shim” — so not quite the worry on that, more a worry with some of our legacy stuff.
Hi.
I’m running NewsMag on WP 4.4.2 and PHP 7.0.3-5+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 / 64Bit OS.
Been doing that for more than 6 months now. No problems what so ever.
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