Title: php 7 compatibility
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# php 7 compatibility

 *  Resolved [gonowjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonowjohn/)
 * (@gonowjohn)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-70/)
 * Found a compatibility issue to address.
    I moved my site from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu
   16.04, which uses php7.
 * php7 does not include mbstring by default.
 * Since I am running my site on a private server, I was able to run this:
    apt-
   get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext libapache2-mod-php7.0
 * However, if the server was hosted, this may not have been possible.
 * You may want to consider re-writing index.php on line 23, as it throws a fatal
   error.
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 *  Plugin Author [maennchen1.de](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maennchen1de/)
 * (@maennchen1de)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-70/#post-7649850)
 * Hi!
    Thanks for your hint. There is no Linux distribution with php and mbstring
   support out of the box. There are many php modules you need to install separately(
   i.e. Exif, GD, FTP, Zip).
 * Please take a look at: [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/42098/what-are-php-extensions-and-libraries-wp-needs-and-or-uses](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/42098/what-are-php-extensions-and-libraries-wp-needs-and-or-uses)

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