Plugin info

Total downloads: 132,822
Active installs: 4,000
Total reviews: 19
Average rating: 4.3
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 7 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 7/21/2025 (163 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/30/2008 (17 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 2.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.99
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Maintained • Last updated 163 days ago • 19 reviews

54/100

Is Better Plugin Compatibility Control abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 163 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 2.9
Tested up to: 6.8.99
Requires PHP: f

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Description

Better Plugin Compatibility Control makes it easy for the blog administrator to check compatibility of all installed plugins. The plugin adds version compatibility info to the plugins page to inform the admin at a glance if a plugin is compatible with the current WP version and PHP version. Until now you had to look it up on the respective plugin page. It’s now up to the admin wether to deactivate a non-compatible plugin or not.

Included languages:

  • English
  • German (de_DE) (Thanks to me ;-))
  • Finnish (fi_FI) (Thanks to C. Hellberg for contributing finnish language)
  • Belorussian (by_BY) (Thanks for contributing belorussian language goes to Marcis Gasuns)
  • Russian (ru_RU) (Thanks for contributing russian language goes to iPower)
  • Uzbek (uz_UZ) (Thanks for contributing uzbek language goes to Alexandra Bolshova)
  • French (fr_FR) (Thanks for contributing french language goes to tolingo translations)
  • Spanish (es_ES) (Thanks for contributing spanish language goes to nomeconsumas.org)
  • Hebrew (he_IL) (Thanks for contributing hebrew language goes to Atar4U / https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahrale/)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) (Thanks for contributing simplified chinese language goes to 斌果)
  • Italian (it_IT) (Thanks for contributing italian language goes to venerdi)

Developer on Twitter

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Licence

This plugins is released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.

Installation

  1. Download the plugin and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder better-plugin-compatibility-control/ to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel.
  4. Installation finished.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why isn’t this or that implemented to improve the plugin interface?

If you have suggestions please let me know by dropping me a line via e-mail or the wp.org forums.

History?

Please visit the official website for the latest information on this plugin.

Where can I get more information?

Please visit the official website for the latest information on this plugin.

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Screenshots

  1. The added compatibility version information below plugin titles.

    The added compatibility version information below plugin titles.

Changelog

6.8.0

  • Added PHP compatibility info

6.6.0

  • compatibility bump

6.4.0

  • compatibility bump

6.3.0

  • Version bump

6.0.1

  • PHP 8.2 compatibility

6.0.0

  • WordPress 6.0 compatibility

5.9.0

  • WordPress 5.9 compatibility

5.8.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.8 compatibility

5.7.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.7 compatibility

5.6.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.6 compatibility

5.5.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.5 compatibility

5.4.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.4 compatibility

5.3.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.3 compatibility

5.2.0.5

  • Fixed a rare but annoying Undefined property error (thanks divavocals & pchenriques!)

5.2.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.2 compatibility

5.1.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.1 compatibility

5.0.0

  • Version dump
  • WordPress 5.0 compatibility

4.9.5

  • Version dump
  • Minor bug fixes
  • PHP 7.2 compatibility

4.9.0

  • WordPress 4.9 compatibility

4.8.0

  • WordPress 4.8 compatibility

4.7.0.1

  • Fixed an Undefined property: stdClass::$tested issue

4.7.0

  • WordPress 4.7 compatibility
  • PHP 7 compatibility

4.6.1

  • Fixed a small bug in version coloring

4.6.0

  • Version bump

4.5.0

  • Added italian localization (Thanks to venerdi!)
  • Version bump

4.4.0.2

  • Code and compatibility improvements (thanks AlfonsBerger!)

4.4.0.1

  • Prepared for localization on wp.org
  • Visual improvements (thanks Demetrio Mendozzi!)
  • Fixed readme.txt typo (thanks Demetrio Mendozzi!)

4.4.0

  • Version dump

4.1.1

  • Added hebrew localization (Thanks to Atar4U!)

4.0.999

  • Version dump
  • Code cleanup and improvements

3.8.1.10

  • Change of how version compatibility indications are handled (e.g., instead of indicating 3.8.1 as incompatible on an 3.8 install, it now indicates all 3.8.x versions as compatible, so if a plugin supports a major version, it’s assumed to support all minor versions too) (props GermanKiwi!)

3.8.1.5

  • Lowered the plugin’s minimum WP requirement
  • Improved multisite compatibility

3.8.1.1

  • Fixed long line of unwrapped text in version info in some cases

3.8.1

  • Code cleanup

3.8

  • Version dump
  • Code cleanup and improvements

3.6

  • Code cleanup and improvements

3.5.1

  • Version dump

3.5

  • Readme.txt updated to be more compliant with the readme.txt standard
  • Moved screenshots off the package to the assets/ folder

3.4.1

  • Maintenance Release (Thanks a lot Gary Gale!)

3.4

  • Maintenance Release

3.3

  • Maintenance Release

1.1.1

  • Now combines information from local readme.txt files and wordpress.org repository data, preferring local data
  • Multisite support

1.1

  • New min version set to WP 2.8
  • Improved and more up-to-date compatibility info parsing by using plugins_api instead of parsing the plugin’s local readme file
  • Code cleanup

1.0.1

  • WordPress 2.8 compatibility

1.0

  • Plugin released