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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by antsar on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:38AM (#19461942)
The hard part isn’t updating. It’s checking what got broken by the update, and fixing that. Then finding out one of the plugins is no longer supported, researching alternatives, and rebuilding half the site to use a new thing.
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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by piotrkubisa on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:38PM (#19465553)
Tip: static analysis tools for PHP helped me during a rewrite from 5.6 to 7.0. It was really good experience, I'd say.
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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by antsar on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:31PM (#19479726)
Same here. Sadly, I don't know of any static analysis tools that can detect inter-compatibility of different versions of WordPress plugins/themes/core. That's one aspect of WordPress maintenance that can get real hairy.
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