The WordPress open-source content management system, CMS, will indicate warning in its backend admin panel whenever the site is being run on an out-of-date PHP version. The plan in place is to make the warnings display for sites making use of a PHP version preceding the 5.6.x branch (<=5.6). There will be an inclusion of a link within the warnings; the link will lead to a WordPress support page containing information that sites owners can follow to update the PHP version in their servers. However, if the owners of the sites are using tightly-controlled web hosting environments to run their WordPress portals, then the web host will be presented with the opportunity of altering this link with a custom URL[…]
