{"id":2181,"date":"2026-02-13T17:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/hosting-php8-4-but-the-wordpress-admin-panel-says-its-php7-4\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:42:18","slug":"hosting-php8-4-but-the-wordpress-admin-panel-says-its-php7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/hosting-php8-4-but-the-wordpress-admin-panel-says-its-php7-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The website hosting uses PHP version 8.4, but the WordPress admin panel says it uses PHP 7.4."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>1. Fix the Overridden .htaccess File<\/h3>\n<p>If you are using a hosting panel like cPanel, changing the PHP version often fails to overwrite old code blocks hidden inside your root configuration file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log into your hosting account and open the File Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to your site&#8217;s root folder (usually public_html).<\/li>\n<li>Reveal hidden files (Click Settings in the top right corner and check Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)).<\/li>\n<li>Right-click and Edit the file named .htaccess.<\/li>\n<li>Look for any code blocks that look like this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"># BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit<br \/>\nAddHandler application\/x-httpd-ea-php74 ___lsphp .php<br \/>\n# END cPanel-generated handler<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the php74 reference to php84. Save your changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Check the MultiPHP \/ Select PHP Manager<\/h3>\n<p>Your host might have a master setting and a per-domain setting. The per-domain setting always overrides the master choice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search your hosting panel for MultiPHP Manager or Select PHP Version.<\/li>\n<li>Find your specific domain name in the listed grid.<\/li>\n<li>Check if that specific domain has an individual dropdown box set explicitly to 7.4.<\/li>\n<li>Check the box next to your domain, change the dropdown menu to PHP 8.4, and hit Apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Clear Host-Level Server Caches<\/h3>\n<p>If you updated the system correctly but the WordPress admin panel won&#8217;t update, your dashboard is likely serving a cached snapshot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to your hosting control panel&#8217;s caching section (such as LiteSpeed, Nginx, or Varnish).<\/li>\n<li>Select Purge All Caches.<\/li>\n<li>Return to your WordPress admin screen and hard-refresh your browser (Ctrl + F5 or Cmd + Shift + R).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Check the .user.ini or php.ini Files<\/h3>\n<p>Some advanced hosting profiles allow folder-level configuration files to lock down PHP distributions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Return to your File Manager and inspect your public_html directory.<\/li>\n<li>Look for small files named php.ini or .user.ini.<\/li>\n<li>Open them in the text editor to see if they contain a manual path designation routing back to an old \/opt\/php74\/ binary tree.<\/li>\n<li>If found, rename the file to php.ini.bak to test if WordPress instantly grabs the correct version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Fix the Overridden .htaccess File If you are using a hosting panel like cPanel, changing the PHP version often fails to overwrite old code blocks hidden inside your root configuration file. Log into your hosting account and open the File Manager. Navigate to your site&#8217;s root folder (usually public_html). Reveal hidden files (Click Settings&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatony.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}