You may have noticed our messaging on your helpdesk regarding PHP version required to use OptimizePress
We ask for this version as a minimum as this brings speed advantages to your site as well as security fixes and updates which make your site more secure
OptimizePress now recommends PHP 8.0 or higher
Any version of OptimizePress 3 released on or after April 15th, 2022 are fully compatible with PHP 8.0 or higher. PHP 8 was built to be much faster than PHP 7 so we do suggest taking advantage of this by updating your sites to PHP 8. Please ensure that your other plugins and themes are compatible before upgrading.
The OptimizePress Smart Theme v3, 1.0.20 is also compatible with PHP 8 or higher.
Let our team know by opening a support ticket if you find any issues while using PHP 8. Please note that most issues we see are due to other plugins or themes not being compatible with PHP 8 that can cause issues for the site, so please ensure that all plugins and themes you are using are compatible prior to upgrading your PHP version.
Please note that if you are still using OptimizePress version 2 on your sites, you can not use a PHP version higher than PHP 7.4. As that platform was originally designed on PHP 5, it would be difficult to upgrade it to work on PHP 8. We have sunset support for version 2 back in March 2022 and there are no further updates planned for that version at this time.