Title: Why not PHP 5.6?
Last modified: July 10, 2020

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# Why not PHP 5.6?

 *  Resolved [Karis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askel45/)
 * (@askel45)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-not-php-5-6/)
 * Since WordPress Core is also encouraging that as the minimum?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Lap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapzor/)
 * (@lapzor)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-not-php-5-6/#post-13104194)
 * We decided to use some PHP features that are not available in PHP 5.6. PHP 7+
   will also improve your general site speed. From our statistics we can see there
   aren’t many users left on older versions of PHP.
 * Hope that helps. If you have any questions, please let me know!
 *  Thread Starter [Karis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askel45/)
 * (@askel45)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-not-php-5-6/#post-13106252)
 * I was asking coz you say you support v5.3.

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 * Last reply from: [Karis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askel45/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-not-php-5-6/#post-13106252)
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