WordPress Stack with PHP7

WordPress announced a few months ago that it is fully compatible with the latest version of the PHP framework, PHP7. Nowadays most of the popular plugins are already compatible and WordPress has also published a developer guide about how to update WordPress plugins to support PHP7.

Here, at Bitnami, we baked a new WordPress stack based on PHP7 to help you run the latest, shiniest and fastest software. WordPress + PHP7 is faster than ever before.

But that's not all. If you still want to run WordPress on PHP 5.6, now you can. Use the Bitnami LAMP Stack and install the WordPress module on it, or use the WordPress Legacy Stack. The WordPress Legacy Stack will have the same and latest version of WordPress but will ship with PHP 5.6

Both new WordPress versions are available as installers, virtual machines, and cloud images on the Bitnami WordPress Stack page.

If you have questions about Bitnami WordPress or the advantages of using PHP7 over PHP5.6, please post to our community forum, and we will be happy to help you.

PHP 7 has been released: Installers, VMs, Images, and Containers

PHP 7.0.0 has been released, and you can now find it included in updated versions of WAMP, MAMP, and LAMP in the Bitnami Library. This is a great choice if you want to run a local install, a virtual machine, or deploy to the cloud (options vary by stack).

Want to create a container-based  PHP 7.0.0 runtime and framework stack? Try it out with Bitnami Stacksmith!

This new version includes many bug fixes such as various stability improvements for it's database and other functionalities, and most importantly twice as fast as the last version. 

PHP 7.0.0 also comes with a new version of the Zend Engine which includes:

• Significantly reduced memory usage 
• Abstract Syntax Tree 
• Consistent 64-bit support 
• Improved Exception hierarchy 
• Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions 
• Secure random number generator 
• Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions 
• The null coalescing operator
• Return and Scalar Type Declarations 
• Anonymous Classes 
• Zero cost asserts 

We'd love to hear how you like PHP 7 and what improvements or problems you've seen so far. Sound off in the comments below or connect to us on Twitter with your feedback.

Try out the first RC of PHP 7 right now on Bitnami!

The first release candidate of PHP has been released and we just included it in our library. You can now download the new installers for Unix and Windows systems.

This version includes a lot of bug fixes, changes, various stability improvements for database, array, assert, streams and other functionality. that you can try right now with our installers in a few clicks.

PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as:

• Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6
• Consistent 64-bit support
• Many fatal errors are now Exceptions
• Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions
• The null coalescing operator (??)
• Combined comparison Operator (<=>)
• Return Type Declarations
• Scalar Type Declarations
• Anonymous Classes

We'd love to hear how you like PHP 7 and what improvements or problems you've seen so far. Sound off in the comments below or connect to us on Twitter with your feedback.