Browsing modules

[maxi032]

I am new to PW and I am starting to like it but it is somehow hard to navigate in backend and to search for compatible modules. May I make a suggestion? When I am here: https://modules.processwire.com/authors/soma/ it would have been nice to be able to browse modules by compatibility version if I need to browse only those compatible with v3.x

[BitPoet]

18 minutes ago, maxi032 said:

it would have been nice to be able to browse modules by compatibility version

That would be nice, I second that, but the truth is that not all modules are incompatible with older PW versions just because the author never updated compatible versions. Lots of older modules still work because the file compiler upgrades them smoothly and there is no incompatible API call or deprecated PHP function used.

Perhaps we should have an entry in module info listing compatible versions, that way changes in the source code repository to that entry would be immediately reflected in the module list. We (as in "the module authors") would probably still need an email reminder when a non-minor version upgrade occurs (like the imminent bump to 3.1) to check and update all modules in that regard.

1 minute ago, Donald said:

It would be also helpful if processwire modules area would have a nice graph or at least numbers how often modules are getting downloaded per year/month/week

I'm not a fan of the "follow the other flies" concept - it's one reason why so many people install bad plugins in WP even though there are newer and better ones available.

[kongondo]

FWIW

http://modules.processwire.com/versions/