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Yoast developer portal is the company blog at developer.yoast.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Yoast's developer blog for its 2020 report on WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility. Commenters cite it as the source for the PHP 8 breaking-change discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Apparently some of the deprecations will make this the most backward compatibility breaking version jump of PHP since V4 to V5. (Read a german interview here: https://www.heise.de/news/PHP-8-im-Experten-Check-Der-erwart... ) There's a long report on Wordpress and PHP 8 and it's not pretty: https://developer.yoast.com/blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-...
Comment linking /blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/
on “PHP 8”Submitted WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> There's a reason it took a decade to get projects onto python 3, but PHP can swiftly move the entire ecosystem from v5 to v7 in a year. PHP did well with v5 to v7. It took more than a year but your point is well made. The PHP v7 to v8 move is not as easy [1, 2, 3]. Not having Python 2 to 3 fresh in everyone's minds is one reason; not having failed PHP v6 is another. The breakages that led to the downfall of PHP6 m…
Comment linking /blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/
on “WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets”Submitted A Better, Faster Approach to CSS in WordPress Themes – Yoast Developer Portal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConclusions here: https://developer.yoast.com/blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-...
Comment linking /blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/
on “WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report”