In reply to Utah Web Design Pros.

Php 7.x issues exist only because theme and plugin developers do not follow the new php 7 coding way. These developers should have updated their code a long time ago as most of the notifications have been in their development environment since php 5.4. So they knew already they should improve their coding. But even wordpress itself who includes f.e the wordpress importer plugin has still not undertaken any steps to make it php 7 compatible regardless of all the suggestions in the plugins reported issues threads. It is unbelievable that users are reporting fixes and they are simply ignored. And then their are so many scripts and plugins that are abandonned by the developers but their code are still used by themes and other plugins. It is a long way to go. WP should just stop working on old 5.x php versions. That would immediately cause all hosters to update or loose their clients. I asked my hoster to update a server. I got a answer it was a old server and they would move all clients to a new one soon. That was 2 years ago and it still did not happen. Btw woocommerce is already doing this for a long time telling people that their php version is not ok.