WordPress 7.0, scheduled for April 2026, will drop support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, raising the minimum supported version to 7.4.0 while keeping the recommended version at 8.3. This decision follows usage of PHP 7.2 and 7.3 falling below 4% of monitored installations, well under the historical 5% threshold. Sites running older PHP versions will remain on WordPress 6.9 and continue receiving security backports as a courtesy. The change aims to improve long-term maintainability across the WordPress ecosystem, including plugins, themes, and developer tooling.