Image: Felix Arntz, WordPress.org The WordPress open-source content management system (CMS) will show warnings in its backend admin panel if the site runs on top of an outdated PHP version.

PHP is the engine that powers your WordPress site. Every time a visitor lands on your page, PHP is what pulls together your posts, pages, and theme design to deliver a functional website.

Recently Amazon has added the support of PHP and now developers can perform a git push to easily deploy PHP web applications. This brings AWS Elastic Beanstalk at par with other PaaS offerings ...