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Minimum Required PHP Version for Plugins

Brandon Himpfen

Brandon Himpfen

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Minimum Required PHP Version for Plugins
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WordPress has introduced a way for developers to set a minimum required PHP version for their plugins.

If you are a WordPress plugin developer and want to set a minimum required PHP version for your WordPress plugin, simply add Requires PHP: to your WordPress plugin's readme.txt file.

=== Better WP Search === 
Contributors: bhimpfen 
Donate link: https://himpfen.com/ 
License: GPLv3 
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html 
Tags: search, wordpress, wp, find 
Requires at least: 4.6 
Tested up to: 4.8.1 
Stable tag: 5.3.3 
Requires PHP: 5.2.4

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