Comments on: Better Plugin Compatibility Control

By: Board Directory

Board Directory — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:24:14 +0000

Hello,

I love using this plugin on my blog, it really gives that neat overview of what plugins to look out for that may not work on the blog.

Regards,
Matt

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By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:28:12 +0000

Thomas, for the time being, you could just install an earlier version of the plugin where it should be like you want it to be.

I’ll have a look at it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:25:32 +0000

Hi Oliver,

love your plugin, I use it on a big multisite install with 100+ plugins and 40 blogs. But I have to oppose the opinion of Ted, I would like to show the normal blog admins the compatibility info as well. I do not have the time to check all the plugins with every wp-update, as I admin that site in my spare time for our artist collective. And should they have troubles with their blogs, that compatibility info could be a hint for them what could be the reason.
Maybe you could make an option page where you could configure the needed capability to see your plugin output?

Best wishes,
Thomas

By: Ted Clayton

Ted Clayton — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:13:33 +0000

Ah, yes, that’s a help alright! I didn’t know that control was there…

And that should be another good way to investigat how the Plugins Table is managed.

By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:42:08 +0000

Havn’t heard of a plugin for that. There are built-in options for the plugins page, though. Just click “Screen options” on the upper right of the plugin page which opens the page options where you can hide the plugin description. Maybe that helps?

By: Ted Clayton

Ted Clayton — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:33:12 +0000

Hello Oliver,

I installed the 2 recent upgrades consecutively. The first upgrade cleaned up the last couple minor formatting issues that appeared with a couple plugins. The new location of the version-information with the Description is very good.

With a long/large plugin table like I have, it is noticeable that the Description column cells usually have much more content than the Plugin title & controls column cells, and thus take up more height … because the 2 columns are near the same width.

I have thought to look into modifying the widths of these columns, so their heights average about the same. That will make the Plugins Table more compact. It would be nice to have an interface to allow settings-controls for that, and maybe other parts of the table (font size).

Are you aware of such a thing already having been done? A plugin that allows this control? I would likely use your plugin as a guide.

By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:46:12 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: marikamitsos

marikamitsos — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:16:21 +0000

Excellent work Oliver. Thank you so much. Works like a charm.
One of the most valuable and unique plugins for every site owner/administrator for both simple and multisite installations on WordPress.
Thank you, thank you and thank you again!!!!

By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:15:49 +0000

Okay, version 1.1.1 just rolled out adding multisite support. The compatibility data is showing up for every user with the rights to manage network plugins which you should have as a super/network admin.