Opened 4 months ago
Last modified 4 days ago
#61211 new enhancement
List minimum version required when showing plugins that are "Incompatible with your version of WordPress"
Reported by: | JeffPaul | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | low |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Plugins | Keywords: | needs-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
I happened to be testing something using WordPress 5.9.9 and went to add a plugin, in the example screenshot Gutenberg is the example here, and saw the standard "This plugin doesn’t work with your version of WordPress. Please update WordPress." and "Incompatible with your version of WordPress" error messaging on the plugin card (I'll leave aside the fact that double messaging here is probably not necessary).
The item that would be helpful alongside the error messaging is the minimum version of the plugin that is required. In the case of the Gutenberg example I have to click "More Details" to get the plugin modal overlay showing that at the current day Gutenberg "Requires WordPress Version: 6.4 or higher". Having that 6.4 version noted within the plugin card would be helpful context. Perhaps updating the first error message to something more like "This plugin doesn’t work with your version of WordPress. Please update WordPress 6.4 or newer." would be a more helpful error message.
Gutenberg plugin card on WordPress version 5.9.9