[wp-hackers] Plugin Compatibility Stats

[Michael Clark]

Correct, it does not phone home, it just lists the details on the 
bottom of the plugin's settings page. Many many people would email me 
with plugin problems, and trying to figure out what they were running 
was impossible. Telling them to ask their host rarely got a response. 
But now when I can tell them that their version of MySQL has a bug and 
they need to ask their host to upgrade, I'm perceived as helpful. Plus 
I'm not frustrated by them running an old version of WP and trying to 
use my plugin, or some other really odd problem. Mike

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:19:57 +0500, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote:
> I think he means it's displayed on an admin page perhaps the plugin's 
> options page.
> 
> "I ask for that info and explain *where it is*"
> 
> You can see it in ksuce_options_page()
> 
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ultimate-category-excluder/trunk/ultimate-category-excluder.php
> 
> On 11/15/2013 02:07 AM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>> 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.