Which PHP extensions are needed to run a fully operational WordPress site?

  • I have one website and on Godaddy cpanel, I have a message that i need to update to PHP 7.2. Some of the modules (extensions) are checked-off but what do I really need and do I need to check-off more? There is virtually nothing on the net about this. Here is a list:

    apcu igbinary nd_pdo_mysql posix uploadprogress
    bcmath imagick oauth propro uuid
    brotli imap oci8 pspell vips
    dba inotify odbc raphf wddx
    dbase interbase opcache redis xdebug
    diseval intl pdo snmp xmlreader
    dom ioncube_loader pdo_dblib soap xmlrpc
    eio json pdo_firebird sockets xmlwriter
    enchant ldap pdo_mysql sqlsrv xsl
    ffmpeg lzf pdo_oci ssh2 yaf
    fileinfo mailparse pdo_odbc stats yaml
    gd mbstring pdo_pgsql sysvmsg zip
    gender memcached pdo_sqlite sysvsem zmq
    geoip mongodb pdo_sqlsrv sysvshm
    gmagick mysqli pgsql tidy
    gnupg mysqlnd phalcon3 timezonedb
    http nd_mysqli phar trader

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  • Hi, the default extensions are supposed to be enough for running an application like WordPress. And looking at that list it should satisfy WordPress requirements.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress topic.

    Thread Starter iacino

    (@iacino)

    But only some of these are checked. Are you implying that I should go with what the host has checked?

    See my answer to a previous version of this question: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/php-7-2-selector-extensions-for-wp/

    According to this WP-CLI command, these are required:

    dom
gmagick
SimpleXML
ssh2
xml
xmlreader
curl
date
exif
filter
ftp
gd
hash
iconv
imagick
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
openssl
pcre
posix
sockets
SPL
tokenizer
zlib

    And these are recommended:

    gmagick
ssh2
exif
imagick
    Thread Starter iacino

    (@iacino)

    I did a search and didn’t see this, but thanks for providing. But, half of these are not available for php 7.2 list.

    Hi, usually the host’s default extensions are all you need.

    I did a search and didn’t see this, but thanks for providing. But, half of these are not available for php 7.2 list.

    They’re probably just not on the list because they’re not optional on your host. You’ll need to check with them if you’re not sure.

    Thread Starter iacino

    (@iacino)

    I think I will go with the host default extensions as Wurpe Hosting probably knows best if they are a hosting company. Thank you.

    Thread Starter iacino

    (@iacino)

    I went from 5.6 to 7.2 with just the default plugins and then proceeded to backup the site and was shocked at the size. THE SIZE DOUBLED! Is this normal?

    Hi, this is not normal and I’m not sure how something like this could possibly happen. Are you sure that your site doubled in size? Are you backing up everything (database, log files, site files, account data) or just the site?

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