I guess you’re referring to WordPress mentioning that “This plugin has not been tested with the latest two major versions of WordPress”.
WordPress is constructed in a way that makes it really back-compatible. A simple plugin that was developed several years ago and hooks into some basic parts of the WordPress programming interface may still work perfectly well. The “shortcode” function is such a thing that didn’t change much over the years. So I’d expect this plugin to work just fine as long as YouTube doesn’t change the URL structure on their side.
“Tested up to” is just a declaration from the plugin developer about what version of WordPress they’ve tested their plugin with.
I’m not related to this plugin in any way.
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Lars
(@thelogbookwebsite)
@tobifjellner precisely that – my host (one.com) and their “Health Monitor” does however report this as “not compatible with the last two major WordPress versions.” under a Vulnerability header with a recommendation of:
“If a plugin hasn’t been tested to work with the last two major WordPress releases, we recommend using an alternative plugin.”
Maybe the fix is to simply redress the current release with a new version number to shut WordPress up. 🙂
That is indeed what the plugin developers would need to do after testing to make sure their plugin works. 🙂
