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https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2996
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Find replacements for incompatible plugins #34

Open felixarntz opened 6 years ago

felixarntz commented 6 years ago

When an incompatible plugin is detected by using the PHP Compatibility Checker or any other means, what needs to be said about finding replacements? This is quite the tricky one, since there certainly are alternatives to several plugins out there, but there isn't one for everything.

Particularly if a plugin was custom developed, in many cases the only solution would be to contact the original (or another) developer again to fix the issues.

We also need to think about themes here. These are usually less functionally complex, so there's a lower chance for issues, but there is still a chance for breakage.

Mte90 commented 6 years ago

Keep a database for alternative plugins is not easy but we can suggest to use the same tags of the plugin in use the search an alternative or contact the developer using the support forum as example.

schlessera commented 6 years ago

Related: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3208

schlessera commented 6 years ago

This involves migrating existing data between plugins as well.