How I Got an Old WordPress Running on Modern PHP — And Made It Faster Than New Versions
When I started rebuilding my site, I didn’t begin with the latest WordPress release, a shiny new theme, or a fresh list of “expert-recommended” plugins. The new versions are too heavy and does not provide protection against large companies. Yes you hear wright, Large Companies. My starting point was much simpler: an old WordPress version 6.0.1, an old cool news theme (SuperNews), and a server already running modern PHP 8.3 to bulid The fastest blog website in the World. It wasn’t ideal. It wasn’t recommended. It wasn’t “best practice”. But…
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