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03/02/2024 06:33:18 PM (15 months ago)
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  • Ticket #60398, comment 96

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    33I have already been unable to install several plugins due to this issue. I have had to re-archive them to install or use the filter. And I only know this because I am "in the know" and actively on social media. Any average user will be stumped and not know who to turn to and may take days to get resolved after they have perhaps chased down their web host who then tells them to talk to their plugin or theme dev.
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    5 This needs fixed in a patch, not next major version. Core team is wrong to think the workarounds are practical for the vast majority of people in the world. And that 6.5 will fix this. People will be running 6.4.3 for a long time, and the people most impacted will be end users any person providing support at any level for WP including designers, builders, web hosts, etc.
     5This needs fixed in a patch, not next major version. Core team is wrong to think the workarounds are practical for the vast majority of people in the world. And that 6.5 will fix this. People will be running 6.4.3 for a long time, and the people most impacted will be end users as well as any person providing support at any level for WP including designers, builders, web hosts, etc.
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    77This isn't just a theme and plugin developer issue. To think of it that way is very myopic. This fundamentally impacts users and will continue to impact users for a long time if not fixed in 6.4.
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    12 There will be so many Envato plugins and themes with incompatible archives.
     12There will be so many Envato plugins and themes with incompatible archives. The ripples of this will be felt for a long time. 
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    1414What is fundamentally the problem here is not understanding how the real world uses WordPress. How real people use WordPress, and how real users approach problems. And that's whom we should be concerned with in the end. Not the developers but the users.