[wp-hackers] "Outdated plugin" notice (was: load_plugin_textdomain() )

[Stephen Rider]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Otto wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Stephen Rider
>> I think we need a narrow column in the plugins screen that can  
>> display
>> icons, and the icons either have a mouseover "tiptext" and/or are  
>> clickabel
>> to pop up a message window.  This could cover both this caution  
>> message, and
>> the "not checked for updates" message (and whatever else comes up  
>> down the
>> road.)  (Or maybe put said icons in the "version" cell?  Better  
>> than a whole new
>> column....)
>
> I'd put it in front of the plugin name.
>
> However, given the separation of plugins in 2.6 and 2.7-bleeding, I'd
> prefer to simply create a new section at the top of the page: "Plugins
> that need attention."
>
> Move plugins that need updates, plugins not checked, plugins found to
> use deprecated functions, etc, all up there.

FAR to intrusive.  There should be a notice, but they shouldn't  
radically alter the plugin organization.  These are relatively minor  
cautions, not major RED ALERTs.

On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Adam Hunter wrote:

> create a mechanism ( using the same concept that updates the  
> plugins ) to check them against a depreciated function list before  
> updating wordpress to a new version?


Interesting idea, but probably a bit much.  What we could do, RE the  
idea above, is to have different levels of warning --

1) This plugin contains outdated (deprecated) code.
2) This plugin contains obsolete (called functions are gone!) code.

I was almost going to suggest auto-deactivation, but I don't think we  
should go that far, as the outdated code might be part of minor  
functionality and we shouldn't DEMAND that the user can't try to use  
the plugin.

What we're really doing is telling them where to look first if there's  
a problem.

Stephen

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