[wp-hackers] Plugin Compatibility Stats

Doug Stewart zamoose at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 21:07:33 UTC 2013


Did you include a warning about the plugin calling home?


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Michael Clark <
dc153464a11bcf5aeb18180db28017fb.wp-hackers at planetmike.com> wrote:

> What I did to help troubleshoot was add a small snippet of code to the
> bottom of my plugin's code that reports out the php version, mysql
> version, WordPress version, theme name and version, plugin version
> number, and number of categories. The plugin is
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/ . While I
> still get a lot of bug reports without their system details, it is much
> more easy for me to give help when I ask for that info and explain
> where it is. And then I can a bit more easily figure out problems. Mike
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:07:45 -0800, Eric Mann wrote:
> > Considering the majority of hosts I work with on projects are on PHP 5.3
> or
> > above, I have been consistently (accidentally) committing 5.3 and 5.4
> code
> > to plugins and themes that I release on WordPress.org.  Unfortunately,
> > listing a higher version of PHP as a requirement isn't an option since
> most
> > of my systems' end users aren't tech savvy enough to know what they're
> on.
> >
> > But some, when I ask, *do* know their version and I can track things down
> > quickly.
>
>
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