feature request: check and ALERT on LATEST WordPress version

Hi ikookmaar,

I’m not sure why adding another colour would be needed. A plugin is either compatible with the current WP version (green) or it is not (red) according to the plugin author.

Checking for future versions of WP is problematic as most plugin authors do only test their plugins with released versions, so checking for 3.9 at the current date would result in like 90% of all plugin’s readme files to indicate “tested up to 3.8(.1)”, so 90% would be indicated incompatible even though the authors simply havn’t updated their compatibility info.

Thanks Oliver, but you seem to misunderstand me;
By LATEST I don’t mean devellopment versions, but the CURRENT version of Wordpres (3.8.1 now).
Your plugin does not only display the version numbers in green if a plugin is compatible with the CURRENT (latest) version of Wordpres, but if it is compatible up to the INSTALLED version of WordPress, the one they are running on, no matter how outdated it is.
It does not provide a clear view to help me decide wether I’m ready to upgrade my (already outdated) WordPress version to the latest (current) version.

Okay, but I’m still not sure what’s the problem there, sorry. ??

So, let’s say, you’re on WP 3.5.3… and you’re planning on updating to WP 3.8.1 so you check each plugin’s compatibility infos (provided by the Better Plugin Compatibility Control plugin), right?

So, if a plugin author indicates his plugin compatible from 3.1 to 3.8.1, both max and min version numbers would be green and you’re safe to update to WP 3.8.1.

Pardon my lack of coffee this morning, but can you give an example to help me understand more? ??

OK, have another coffee first.
In your example ALL the plugins that are compatible only up to 3.5.3 would be shown in green. At least that’s what happens in my case, with all 41 (I know, way too many) plugins compatible only up to 3.6 running on WordPress 3.6.
So I still have to read the (green) numbers carefully and take note of all them, to see which ones actually are compatible up to 3.8.1 (or later). Displaying only the ones that are compatible with the current version (3.8.1) in green, the ones only compatible up to the installed version (in my case 3.6) in yellow and the ones only compatible up to an even earlyer version in red would make it a lot clearer to see in a single glance if I’m ready to upgrade or not.
Also, take note of my earlier suggestion to also check on that “voting thingy”, to see if a plugin is also “proofed” to be compatibel.
Time for coffee for me too now..

Peter

ikookmaar, had my coffee. I get it now. ??

However, having three different colour indicators now might be confusing for most users at first, but I’ll think about something to make it clear for the users.