Answers.Body: <p>You would need to contact your host to check that php 5.6 is available.  It very likely is in which case there is probably a facility in your cpanel or equivalent to activate this.  I recently upgraded my setup to php7 on wordpress without any problems and in fact things are working quite a bit faster.</p>
  
  <p>Hope this helps.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Awesome. Thanks a lot for the tip. It worked! So easy when you know how!
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Body: <p>I updated to CiviCRM 4.7.28 (on Wordpress). However, I have not been able to update the PHP to the 5.6 version. In fact, after much searching, I don't seem to be able to come up with the correct way to update the PHP. Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
  
Tags: <wordpress><php><upgrade>
Title: problem upgrading php
ThreadText: # problem upgrading php
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-12)
  
  I updated to CiviCRM 4.7.28 (on Wordpress). However, I have not been able to update the PHP to the 5.6 version. In fact, after much searching, I don't seem to be able to come up with the correct way to update the PHP. Any help would be much appreciated.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, php, upgrade
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-12. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  You would need to contact your host to check that php 5.6 is available. It very likely is in which case there is probably a facility in your cpanel or equivalent to activate this. I recently upgraded my setup to php7 on wordpress without any problems and in fact things are working quite a bit faster.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Awesome. Thanks a lot for the tip. It worked! So easy when you know how!  
  
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