Recently getting into wordpress plugin development, I started to investigate how to make my code backward compatible to php 4+. I’ve focused only on php 5.1+ for the past 5 years, so this was an ordeal.
Anyway, when looking at some plugins, one of them had this description:
IMPORTANT: This plugin is not compatible with PHP 4. If you try to install it on a host running PHP 4, you will get a parse error. WordPress is ending support for PHP 4 as of version 3.2
Is it true that wordpress is going to stop supporting php prior to php 5?
Yes, version 3.1 is the last version to support PHP 4.
Based on that announcement page, I’d actually expect 3.2 to be released a little later this year (i.e. early Q3), since 3.1 ended up a few months later than that page projected (not a knock on the dev team, FYI – just conjecture on my part).
This is true. See the announcement here.