Title: Upgrading WP, PHP, & MySQL
Last modified: October 9, 2017

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# Upgrading WP, PHP, & MySQL

 *  [curtisbryant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtisbryant/)
 * (@curtisbryant)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wp-php-mysql/)
 * I want to upgrade my WordPress system (WP, PHP, & MySQL) and am seeking advice
   for upgrading these applications. I know how to upgrade WP but am less familiar
   with upgrading it along with PHP and MySQL.
 * Do you have a preferred order? For example, is it better to upgrade in
    this 
   order: 1. WP, 2. PHP, 3. MySQL this order: 1. PHP, 2. MySQL, 3. WP
 * Here are the versions:
 * Current PHP: 5.6.9
    Latest PHP Version: 7.1.10
 * Current WP Version: 4.6.1
    Latest Version: 4.8.2
 * Current MySQL Version: 5.1.66
    Latest MySQL Version: 5.7.21
 * Because MySQL requires upgrading one version at a time (e.g. 5.1 to 5.2), upgrading
   it will take several steps. Might it help to upgrade the three applications gradually
   together?
 * Or is the order or speed of upgrades likely to matter at all? What do you think?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wp-php-mysql/#post-9571258)
 * Do WordPress first, so if something breaks, you know it’s just WP.
 * The order doesn’t really matter. Take down httpd/apache while you’re doing it,
   though, so your site isn’t wonky to visitors.
 * How are you hosting your site? There’s not a real reason to upgrade MySQL stepwise
   and if you can switch to MariaDB, you’ll gain a little speed.
 *  Thread Starter [curtisbryant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtisbryant/)
 * (@curtisbryant)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wp-php-mysql/#post-9574394)
 * Thank you!

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

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