My site has recently started loading extremely slowly. I had my host work on it for a few hours and it still isn’t loading. I’m wondering if i need to update my php? This is urgent!!!
My theme is
<h2 class=”theme-name” style=”font-weight: 100; color: #1d2327; font-size: 32px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ‘Segoe UI’, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif;”>Bard Pro<span class=”theme-version” style=”color: #646970; font-size: 13px; float: none; display: inline-block; margin-left: 10px;”>Version: 2.91</span></h2>
<p class=”theme-author” style=”line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 25px; color: #646970; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ‘Segoe UI’, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif;”>By Royal Flush</p>
<p class=”bigger-bolder-text” style=”font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 12px 0px; font-weight: 600; color: #3c434a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ‘Segoe UI’, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif;”>Your site is running on an outdated version of PHP (7.4.33), which does not receive security updates and soon will not be supported by WordPress. Ensure that PHP is updated on your server as soon as possible. Otherwise you will not be able to upgrade WordPress.</p>
<p style=”font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 12px 0px; color: #3c434a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ‘Segoe UI’, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif;”>What is PHP and how does it affect my site?</p>
<p style=”font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 12px 0px; color: #3c434a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ‘Segoe UI’, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif;”>PHP is one of the programming languages used to build WordPress. Newer versions of PHP receive regular security updates and may increase your site’s performance. The minimum recommended version of PHP is 8.3</p>
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