I am going to submit my first plugin to the repository. How do I find out the Requires tag value for which my plugin would work? I know its somewhat vague, but how do you guys figure out? Like my plugin just add some info in the head section. The only thing required for its functionality is wp_head hook. So I just did a grep and checked the inline documentation that it was introduced in WP v1.2
So am I right? This is how I should be doing it? Any tips?
Yepp, if you really only use that hook, that would be the way to go. But it’s pretty likely you also use a couple of WP functions…if so, you should check these functions, too, before going too low with your required version.
Generally, i wouldn’t go below 2.0 (which i smore than 5 years old) for any new plugin. I think even going lower than 2.5, which is about 3 years old, is unnecessary.