Sergey Biryukov

But, let’s just for a moment suspend reality, and say your worldview is correct; it still doesn’t explain why ~ probably the greatest resource possessed by the community ~ is unable to provide a simple filter to show you the only the plugins which have been certified by the developer to work with the current version.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29439 is the only ticket I’ve seen on this. That’s for the filter in WP admin, no tickets on https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ for the repository itself (feel free to create one)

I think it didn’t get much traction because most of the plugins written for an older version still work perfectly fine in newer releases due to WordPress’ strong commitment to backwards compatibility.

On the other hand, even if the plugin author marked it as compatible with the current version, it could still be incompatible with a particular install, since each environment is different and testing every possible configuration is not feasible. So the version filter might be not that helpful in the long run.

If a plugin is clearly outdated or broken, it’s usually obvious from the rating or the “hasn’t been updated in over 2 years” notice. Some plugins with that notice may still work fine though, especially those with just a few lines of code.

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