PHP 7.3 Selector Extensions For WP

  • Looking at the list some of the “required” extensions are not available on my hosting provider’s panel when selection PHP extension for v7.2 let alone v7.3 – SimpleXML, exif, filter, ftp, hash, and iconv to mention a few.

    My hosting provider has finally provided v7.3, so I am upgrading my PHP version. Some of the extensions which were available are no longer available (ssh2 being one of them), and I am unfamiliar with how WP-CLI command works and I don’t understand the GitHub instructions. So what are the current required and recommended PHP extensions for PHP7.3 for optimal WordPress running?

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  • Some of the extensions which were available are no longer available (ssh2 being one of them)

    Some are not available because are not compatible with PHP 7.3, and I doubt the newest release of WordPress would require an extension no longer available.

    Check the requirements here:

    https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

    Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    That’s an interesting list. Here’s some comments about a few of them.

    gmagick and posix are not needed for WordPress. I have no idea why they are on that list. Note that posix is usually built into PHP, so it will probably be available even if WordPress doesn’t need it.

    ssh2 and/or ftp are only needed if PHP does not have write access to the WordPress filesystem. If you are on shared or reseller cPanel hosting, then PHP has write access to the filesystem, so these two extensions are not needed for WordPress.

    imagick is in the “nice to have but not required” category.

    exif is required to auto-rotate JPG images uploaded from smartphones. If you don’t plan to upload JPG images from smartphones, then you probably don’t need exif.

    All the others on that list are either built into PHP, or WordPress will not run correctly (or at all) if the extension is not present.

    Two extensions not on that list, but should be, are zip and sodium. Every build of PHP I create for clients will have both extensions available.

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