Title: Plugin compatibility between your own plugins versions
Last modified: May 26, 2022

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# Plugin compatibility between your own plugins versions

 *  Resolved [Scott Trsar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scotttrsar/)
 * (@scotttrsar)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-between-your-own-plugins-versions/)
 * I submitted this support ticket with TEC, but wanted to post it here too as well
   in case anyone else has experienced this issue. Feel free to chime in.
 * ———
 * Hi,
 * Do you know where I could find or can you could send me what your guidelines 
   or best practices are as it relates to backward plugin compatibility between 
   your own plugins?
 * We’ve run into issues in the past with the main events calendar requiring specific
   versions of its other plugins (PRO, filter bar, community, etc.) and recently
   with the release of v5.15.0 it brought the entire site down (returning a 500 
   on all frontend pages).
    [https://theeventscalendar.com/release-notes/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar-5-15-0/](https://theeventscalendar.com/release-notes/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar-5-15-0/)
 * I feel the methodology of not supporting any version prior between each other
   isn’t a very safe approach. Which is what happened with the v5.15.0 update.
 * Is it possible, or have you considered to run a check that if compatibility is
   going to be a problem on update, to disallow it until the others can support 
   it? Would help to mitigate compatibility errors for everyone.
 * The error that was being throw was this on all frontend pages:
    `Uncaught exception'
   RuntimeException' with message 'Error while making 'community.main': Class community.
   main does not exist' in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/common/vendor/
   lucatume/di52/src/tad/DI52/Container.php:358`
 * The other premium plugins didn’t get updated at the time the main events calendar
   did because these updates are not coming from the wordpress public repo.
 * Auto updates are running via WP-CLI w/ command `wp --skip-plugins --skip-themes
   plugin update --all`. skip-plugins is in there to avoid critical errors and reduce
   server load on update. I may risk changing this to run w/o skip plugins depending
   on if we can’t come up with a better solution. So I wanted to get your feedback
   on this and if anyone else has experienced this same issue and if there’s anything
   we can do here.
 * Please let me know,
    Thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-compatibility-between-your-own-plugins-versions%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [WilloftheD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzlevelup/)
 * (@abzlevelup)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-between-your-own-plugins-versions/#post-15690515)
 * Hello [@scotttrsar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scotttrsar/), good to
   know that my colleague John was able to help you with this one. Since you have
   an active Pro License, we would be able to help you better in our HelpDesk. If
   you do have some follow-up question, you could reply to the previous thread, 
   or you could bump a new ticket on our way.
 * Lastly, you could also check the compatibility with our versions here:
    [https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/version-compatibility/](https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/version-compatibility/)
 * Have a great day, Scott.
 * Cheers,
    Abz

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 * Last reply from: [WilloftheD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzlevelup/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-compatibility-between-your-own-plugins-versions/#post-15690515)
 * Status: resolved