[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #56199: Make the warnings about critical Site Health issues more prominent

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#56199: Make the warnings about critical Site Health issues more prominent
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 Reporter:  azaozz                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  6.1
Component:  Site Health              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  servehappy needs-design  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:12 SergeyBiryukov]:

 > Last time a minimum supported PHP version bump was discussed in #51043,
 I believe the requirement stated in comment:16:ticket:51043 was to get the
 usage of the older versions we no longer want to support (PHP 5.6, 7.0,
 and 7.1 at this time) below 5% across all sites.

 Right, this is 5% for all unsupported versions, i.e. 5% of the WordPress
 installs out there will not be able to get upgrades to the latest version
 because they are running on too old PHP. We are aiming for a minimum PHP
 version of 7.2, currently the numbers are:

 || 7.1   ||  2.23%||
 || 7.0   ||  3.16%||
 || 5.6   ||  5.90%||
 || Total || 11.29%||

 Thinking about it again, 5% is a huge number of sites. However not being
 able to upgrade sends a really strong message to site owners and hosts.
 Looking at previous times minimum required versions were bumped, these 5%
 rapidly go down to around 1-2% in few months.

 > I wonder if PHP 5.6 is mostly used with older WordPress versions, so the
 usage gradually drops due to new sites being created and not necessarily
 due to older sites being upgraded.

 Yes, that sounds quite likely. But even if most sites that are currently
 on 5.6 are also running an older version of WP, we still shouldn't just
 drop them. Hoping we will be able to reach some of the owners of such
 sites with the enhancements we are adding in this ticket.

 Actually this is a good follow-up question for the emails that Site Health
 is going to send. Thinking we should mention both the PHP version and the
 WP version if it needs upgrading.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56199#comment:15>
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