WordPress 5.1 rolled out to users on Friday complete with Site Health, a new security mechanism designed to alert site owners when they are using outdated versions of PHP.
According to the developers of the world’s most popular CMS, when installing new plugins, Site Health will check to see if the add-on requires a version of PHP that’s incompatible with the site.
If so, WordPress will prevent web admins from installing the plugin.
According to Felix Arntz, a Google engineer and WordPress core committer, the move will helpclose the server-side capability gap while also improving the performance and security of the web.
Web admins who have not yet updated to WordPress 5.1 can do so through their dashboard, or via the WordPress core download page.
