As someone who worked in the hosting industry before moving to supporting and consulting on cloud stuff, it's a couple of things.
A handful of projects really are the driving reason for PHP's ubiquity.
Wordpress/Joomla, phpBB/Invision/vBulletin, Magento...
The demand for support for these and some smaller and similar projects really drove webhosts to need to support PHP, and for a lot of the standardized tooling webhosts used, such as cPanel/WHM and Plesk, to support not only PHP, but the automated installation of these projects.
Sure, WordPress wasn't the first - phpNuke, Postnuke, etc, were really popular CMS tools before WP, but if we're talking staying power, you really can look at the stuff I listed as being why it has stuck around.
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