You didn’t do anything wrong. WordPress 3.2 requires a higher version of PHP than what your server has installed. You need to contact your host directly to find out if they can upgrade your account. See here for a sample email to send:
Are You Ready for WordPress 3.2?
Thank you so much! They’re telling me it’ll take a month for my platform to be updated, is there anyway to down grade my wordpress version?
I have the same problem – most of us won’t check version first and will run into this problem. I want to roll back by reinstalling the old version whcih I have done BUT I am getting the same message again now even with the old version in place so I’ll be poking through the php to see where they set this. I may need to track down a file saved somewhere to get back to the old version. Very frustrating.
To downgrade a failed installation you may follow the manual upgrade procedure, using WordPress 3.1.4
Thanks I deleted wp-admin and wp-include folder from the server and copied then copied the previous release to the server and that is working now. The nifty ‘wordpress 3.2 is available please upgrade now message’ is going to catch quite a few people like me who should know better but upgraded before checking the requirments!
Hello,
I received the same error “Your server is running PHP version 4.4.9 but WordPress 3.2 requires at least 5.2.4”
My server is running PHP 5.2.4.
I have been using WP_Query on my website outside of WP and everything worked fine until I upgraded to 3.2 today:
<?php
$recent_posts = new WP_Query();
$recent_posts->query(‘showposts=7’);
?>
<?php while ($recent_posts->have_posts()) : $recent_posts->the_post(); ?>
<ul class=”blog”>
<li class=”PadLeft5 PadBot5″>
” title=”Follow to SEO Blog Post” target=”_blank” class=”font10ptNormalBlack” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Any thoughts?
Best Regards
Sean
