{"id":643,"date":"2020-06-04T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=643"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:17:03","slug":"how-to-change-php-version-for-wordpress-hosting","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-change-php-version-for-wordpress-hosting","title":{"rendered":"How to change PHP version for WordPress Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>How to change PHP version for WordPress Hosting?<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>click on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PHP<\/a>\u00a0Settings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"213\">2. On your WordPress control panel dashboard, click on PHP Settings<\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"216\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-dib fr-fil inline-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14078076098\/original\/KHVvaZw2EXjBpKtLWkNDJXv7ftDZ73m_ng.png?1612248777\" alt=\"How to change PHP version for WordPress Hosting\" width=\"879\" height=\"364\" data-fileid=\"14039901329\" data-identifyelement=\"217\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"14078076098\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"220\">3. Select the PHP version according to your requirement. We recommend to run your PHP as &#8220;FPM application served by nginx&#8221; as that will helps to speed up your WordPress website loading speed.<\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"223\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-dib fr-fil inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14078076099\/original\/iTLJ6-iyfm1d0py52HeQqIofITd7c7VXUw.png?1612248778\" data-fileid=\"14039901403\" data-identifyelement=\"224\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"14078076099\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"227\">4. Click OK upon complete to make the changes applied to your account. The change of the PHP will apply across to all your WordPress installation on your hosting subscription.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to change PHP version for WordPress Hosting? click on\u00a0PHP\u00a0Settings 2. On your WordPress control panel dashboard, click on PHP Settings 3. Select the PHP version according to your requirement. We recommend to run your PHP as &#8220;FPM application served by nginx&#8221; as that will helps to speed up your WordPress website loading speed. 4. Click OK upon complete to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[25],"kbtag":[1558,1134],"class_list":["post-643","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-gettings-started-with-wordpress-hosting","kbtag-php","kbtag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5758,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/643\/revisions\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}