There has been talk for a while now about the PHP requirements of WordPress. WordPress still supports PHP 5.2.4, however, PHP 5.2 was deprecated on January 6, 2011, over 4 years ago as of the time of this writing. PHP 5.3 was deprecated August 14, 2014. Why is WordPress continuing to support such antiquated versions of PHP? The main reason is backwards compatibility, and the millions of sites that