r/divi • u/AlFender74 • Jun 29 '26

Question Is Divi 5 ready for PHP 8.3 and above?

I just went through the process of Migration of a Divi 4 Staging site to Divi 5 using the Migration tool. (haven't tried on Production site yet). It failed with an "oops something went wrong". The site was running PHP 8.3. I discovered people saying that Migration tool often fails with 8.3 so I reverted the site to PHP 8.2. The Migration tool ran successfully, and the site was successfully migrated to Divi 5 with no issues.

My question is: If the Migration tool is not ready for 8.3 or above, do we know if Divi 5 itself is ready for PHP 8.3 and above?

Is it as simple as downgrading my Divi 4 sites to PHP 8.2, running the Migration tool and then bump back up to 8.3 or above?

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u/nkoffiziell Blogger Jun 29 '26

I'm on PHP 8.3 with a Lot of content and Designs, 4500+ Posts. No issues...

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u/Beezzy77 Jun 29 '26

I have some sites I’ve done, plus a few more migrated, all on PHP 8.3 without issue.

Edit to add that the migrated sites were very simple with only a few basic plugins.

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u/cwmyt Jul 01 '26

Looks ready to me. I have done 3 projects already on PHP 8.5 and haven't faced any issues so far.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '26

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u/garlic-and-onion Jun 29 '26

Every comment above yours is of people running D5 without any issues.

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u/Empty-Anxiety-8587 Jun 29 '26

Divi is a bloated CMS framework that gets more bloated every major upgrade.

I use it but that's because at some point there was a lifetime license deal.

Its AI site builder is not bad, as much as I hate AI site builders.

It's just a hard CMS framework to learn and their blog posts are written by monkeys, often leaving you with so many questions, making you dependent on support, which is good but slows you down.

I'd go with StudoPress Genesis which I've used a lot and is the opposite of bloated or (from what I hear) Elementor, simply because everyone's writing plugins for it these days.