About Wordpress 6.0
To see if our results would match other published benchmarks.Our hosting setup has been tuned to make WordPress sites as fast as possible, and the Server-side Caching feature in particular is a great tool to significantly improve loading times for all WordPress sites on our servers, even ones on the latest PHP versions. However, we disabled that feature for our tests, as well as all WordPress caching plugins, so that we could measure actual WordPress page generation performance.The results show consistently faster loading times for WordPress 6.0 running on PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.x compared to PHP 5.6. Here is a sample comparison of twenty sequential requests to the same WordPress website with several PHP versions that show the page generation time differences:Page generation times for WordPress 6.0 running on different PHP versionsFor our tests, we isolated only the WordPress page loading times. Network-related tasks like establishing a connection and TLS negotiation were ignored in order to provide a clear picture of raw PHP performance.Overall, the results are in line with recent PHP benchmarks that show a solid improvement in loading times and execution time for new PHP versions. Synthetic benchmarks do not always match real-world performance exactly, but in this case PHP really delivers. Although the improvement for a complex workload like WordPress is not quite double like some of the PHP benchmarks we've seen, it is still very substantial and well worth upgrading.And while this post focuses on performance, it is important to stress that security should also be a serious concern for any website owner. Security updates for previous PHP versions are no longer provided on a regular basis and that may leave your website vulnerable to hacking if a serious vulnerability in PHP is discovered. The best thing you can do to improve the security of your website is to keep all software it runs on up-to-date.So why do we keep all these old PHP versions around?While PHP 5.3 and 5.6 are at this time obsolete and no longer used by new applications, there are legacy applications that have to be upgraded from PHP 5 to
Key features of the Wordpress 6.0 that are enabled through these drivers include:
- WordPress 6.0 Download - FileHorse
- WordPress 6.0 Development Cycle – Make WordPress Core
- WordPress 6.0 Planning Roundup – Make WordPress Core
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 1 – WordPress News
- WordPress 6.0 Field Guide - Make WordPress Core
- WordPress 6.0 Development Cycle Make WordPress Core
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 1 WordPress News
On July 13, 2022, WordPress 6.0.1 was released to the public. This version is available for “download” from wordpress.org and not in the Synology Package Center. So, if you want to download and install WordPress 6.0.1 on your Synology NAS, you have to follow my step by step guide on how to manually update a new version of WordPress in your Synology. I recommend everyone use the official version of WordPress on their NAS until Synology ‘restarts its engine’ in the package upgrading process.This security and maintenance release features 13 bug fixes.These bugs affect WordPress version 6.0 and all older versions since 3.7, so you’ll want to upgrade. WordPress 6.0.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be WordPress 6.1 which will be released to the general public in October 2022.To see the full list of changes, you can browse the 6.0.1 documentation page.Note: If you have any questions regarding the WordPress official version vs WordPress Synology Package, Contact me. Note: mariushosting has been hosted from home on a Synology NAS device since January 9, 2019.This post was updated on Wednesday / August 10th, 2022 at 9:25 PM
