We plan to upgrade our managed WordPress platform to PHP 8.1 this April. This is a major upgrade from PHP 7, with some significant compatibility issues with older plugins and themes.
PHP 7 is officially unsupported by the PHP community, but our hosting partner is providing extended long-term support for this older version.
We have been testing extensively for a few months, and we are confident that most issues are resolved. We will update this article when the upgrade date is finalized.