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Hi everyone, welcome to K2 blogging and in this video we will talk about how to upgrade
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the PHP version in WordPress and maximize the speed performance in WordPress
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So as you know WordPress is built on PHP and if you upgrade your PHP version in WordPress then
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you will see a significant boost in speed performance and that's because WordPress
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uses the PHP version to query the database and here cloudways done a benchmarking test in
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different PHP version and here as you can see in this graph PHP 8.0 has the less average response
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time which is good for better speed in website and here you can see that the success response
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count in PHP 8.0 is higher so you should upgrade your PHP version from 7.3 or 7.4 to PHP 8.0
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So let's check how can upgrade your PHP version and if you don't know how to check the PHP version
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in WordPress then you can do it using various plugins so let me just log into the admin panel
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of WordPress. Okay now I am logged into my WordPress dashboard and to check the PHP version
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of WordPress you can use the RankMath plugin so I will go to RankMath and I will click on
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status and tools and then I will click on system status and then if you click on RankMath then it
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will show the RankMath version and if you click on server it will show that the web server is
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based on light speed and the PHP version is 7.4.32 so you can upgrade the PHP version by logging to
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your hosting panel so as I am using hostinger in this website I will log into hostinger
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and then I will scroll down and make sure to select the right website here and then let me
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just click on advance here and here I will see this option PHP configuration so let me just click on
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here and here as you can see the PHP version is selected to 7.4 so let me just select it to PHP
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8.0 so PHP 8.1 is the latest version but we don't use the 8.1 because in new version you may see
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some problems that's why we will select the PHP 8.0 and let me just update this
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now it will ask you to confirm this setting so let me just confirm this and as you can see you
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will see the success message PHP version is updated successfully and if you are using Bluehost then
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you can also upgrade your PHP version by logging into your Bluehost hosting panel and then you can
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click on advance here now you need to scroll down to the bottom and here you will see this
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option software section and here you will see this option multi PHP manager so just click on here
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and here you can see the list of domains you have in the Bluehost and you can select that domain
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and then you can select the PHP version from here so this website already has PHP 8.0 so if you
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have any other version then you can select the PHP 8.0 and click on apply so that it will change
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the PHP version of your WordPress website so this is how simple it is to upgrade your PHP version in
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WordPress now let me just log into WordPress again so I will click on dashboard again now
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again go to rank math and click on status and tools now let's click on system status now let's
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click on server here and as you can see the PHP version is selected to 8.0 so we have successfully
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upgraded our PHP version so by upgrading your PHP version you can speed up your server response time
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in WordPress I hope you found this video helpful and if this video helps then make sure to hit the
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like button and do subscribe our channel for more upcoming videos like this and if you have any doubt
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regarding this then you can ask me in the comment section I will see you in the next video thank you
