diff -Nru wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/changelog wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/changelog	2016-02-05 09:34:56.000000000 +0000
+++ wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/changelog	2016-03-24 07:50:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+wordpress (4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * Update to PHP7.0 dependencies (LP: #1544352).
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:13:31 -0700
+
 wordpress (4.4.2+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release Closes: #813697
diff -Nru wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/control wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/control
--- wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/control	2016-02-05 09:34:56.000000000 +0000
+++ wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/control	2016-03-24 07:50:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: wordpress
 Section: web
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-linktree
 Build-Depends-Indep: gettext,
@@ -26,15 +27,15 @@
 Package: wordpress
 Architecture: all
 Depends: apache2 | httpd,
-         libapache2-mod-php5 | php5,
+         libapache2-mod-php | php,
          ca-certificates,
          mysql-client | mariadb-client,
-         php5-gd,
-         php5-mysql | php5-mysqlnd,
+         php-gd,
+         php-mysql | php-mysqlnd,
          ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: wordpress-l10n,
          wordpress-theme-twentysixteen
-Suggests: mysql-server (>= 5.0.15), php5-ssh2
+Suggests: mysql-server (>= 5.0.15), php-ssh2
 Description: weblog manager
  WordPress is a full featured web blogging tool:
     * Instant publishing (no rebuilding)
diff -Nru wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/nginx-wordpress.conf wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/nginx-wordpress.conf
--- wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/nginx-wordpress.conf	2016-02-05 09:34:56.000000000 +0000
+++ wordpress-4.4.2+dfsg/debian/nginx-wordpress.conf	2016-03-24 07:50:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         fastcgi_param            SCRIPT_FILENAME         $request_filename;
         fastcgi_index            index.php;
         fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
-        fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+        fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
 
     }