[wp-hackers] Plugin Compatibility Stats

[Chip Bennett]

If you're using do_settings_sections(), the easiest approach would be just
to add an additional settings section, and use the setting description to
output whatever content you want.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can one go about putting that in a theme option page that is using
> the api provided by wordpress?
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Michael Clark
> <dc153464a11bcf5aeb18180db28017fb.wp-hackers at planetmike.com> wrote:
> > 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()
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> >
> 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
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> >>>>
> >>>> 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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