Show current and recommended PHP version

  • richbhanover

    (@richbhanover)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Feature request

    I’m using Health Check 1.3.2 on WP 5.2.1. The report says that I should update PHP. But it doesn’t say what version I’m using, nor does it recommend a better version. See the screen shot at: https://imgur.com/gallery/6NqRm7U

    Request: Could this pane show the current and recommended PHP version? Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hiya,

    I’ll have to check with our copy-editors, as they recommended removing it, possibly to not cause confusion for users when numbers that have little or no meaning to them are shown (is my guess at least), but I suspect we could find a way to include some more information here, yes 🙂

    Thread Starter richbhanover

    (@richbhanover)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for checking into this. I want to mention that I *loved* the old Health Check Site Status tab – it showed everything at one glance. (Here’s a link to what it looked like… https://imgur.com/gallery/MYNGTM7 )

    Plugin Author Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    It did have a lot of information at a glance, yes 🙂

    That was actually a little bit problematic, for a lot of users we found that to be too much information, most of which wasn’t important since they’d really only need to address any critical failures/recommendations, especially as we worked on including it in WordPress 5.2 it was important to keep the requirements for understanding it as low as possible.

    That said, we’re always looking for input on how to improve both this and other parts of the plugin (and subsequent WordPress it self), so if you have input we’re all ears.

    Thread Starter richbhanover

    (@richbhanover)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    I appreciate your need to simplify the UI for the majority of your customers.

    But here is feedback on the trouble I had when trying to find my current PHP version. (It turns out that this was one of the primary reasons I started using Health Check – just to see the PHP version.)

    1. The old Site Status tab seems to have been replaced by the new Info pane. So far so good. But that pane’s accordion-like structure makes it hard to find any particular item. I had to hunt around, opening and closing several of the items, to find where you decided the PHP version should be displayed.

    2. The “Copy Site Info to Clipboard” does indeed provide all the details underlying the accordion view. But it’s hard to use: after I click the button, I then have to find a place to paste the info so I can see it all at once.

    3. The “View extended PHP information” button is hard to find, since you have to scroll way down to the bottom of the page. And clicking it loses my context: I wasn’t in any of the Site Health panes (Status, Info, Troubleshooting, Tools)

    4. Also, the names “Status” and “Info” don’t really convey the difference between the contents of those two panes. From their names alone, I couldn’t guess what they’re going to show without actually clicking.

    To address all these, perhaps you could:

    a) Rename the “Info” pane to “Details” and

    b) Put three tabs into the Details pane:
    – an “Info” tab, containing the current accordion list
    – a “Full Info” tab, displaying as text the info I get when clicking the “Copy” button
    – an “Extended PHP Info” tab, with the contents shown by “View extended PHP information”

    Thanks.

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