Title: PHP 8 Compatibility
Last modified: January 29, 2021

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# PHP 8 Compatibility

 *  Resolved [20sigd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/20sigd/)
 * (@20sigd)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-7/)
 * Hi, I’ve been experiencing problems with a lot of very important plugins for 
   backup, invoices, and mail.
    Is WP mail SMTP compatible with PHP 8? I’ve got 
   it running on my server and can NOT downgrade to 7.4 because my WP site is not
   compatible with it. I don’t receive emails from purchase etc. Not sure if it 
   is fault of the WP mail SMTP plugin as I can’t test it out because with the PHP8
   upgrade, it could be pretty much anything.
 * Thanks.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fphp-8-compatibility-7%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Sanjeev Aryal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanzeeb3/)
 * (@sanzeeb3)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-7/#post-13990523)
 * Hi [@20sigd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/20sigd/),
 * Thanks for reaching out. Currently, WP Mail SMTP isn’t compatible with PHP 8.0.
   Our development team is working to make it compatible and hopefully, it will 
   be available in one of the future releases. However, due to some major changes
   in PHP 8.0, we are not able to provide an estimated time for its availability.
 * Have a good one!
 *  Thread Starter [20sigd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/20sigd/)
 * (@20sigd)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-7/#post-13990563)
 * Hi [@sanzeeb3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanzeeb3/),
 * Thank you for your help. I have found a way to downgrade my theme and wordpress
   to PHP 7.4 again which has solved the issues.
 * Looking forward to the update.
 * Until then, this issue is resolved.

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 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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 * Last reply from: [20sigd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/20sigd/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-7/#post-13990563)
 * Status: resolved