Title: [Plugin: WPBook] Upping the Minimum WordPress version?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WPBook] Upping the Minimum WordPress version?

 *  Plugin Author [johneckman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johneckman/)
 * (@johneckman)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wpbook-upping-the-minimum-wordpress-version/)
 * I’d like to simplify the posting of images along with excerpts to Facebook walls.
 * The easiest way to do that would be to use what’s now called the “Featured Image”
   but used to be called the “Post Thumbnail” which was introduced in WordPress 
   2.9
 * Right now WPBook works back to 2.6.
 * Are there lots of folks using WordPress 2.7.x or 2.8.x out there?
 * Could we require 2.9.2 or later?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bandonrandon/)
 * (@bandonrandon)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wpbook-upping-the-minimum-wordpress-version/#post-1653701)
 * I think that’s a fine idea. Many plugin authors don’t give a care about backwards
   compatability and require the latest and greatest. I have no problem asking users
   to use the lastest (and more secure) WordPress versions. If a user dosen’t want
   to upgrade they can use an older version with less features, more bugs and no
   support. As much as I want to see more people having access to WPBook I also 
   think that keeping your WordPress installation up to date is something we should
   encorage.
 * Another idea would be to wrap a conditional tag `If($WP 2.9.2+){use "featured
   images"} else {do nothing}` that may be more work than it’s worth.

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 * Last reply from: [B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bandonrandon/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wpbook-upping-the-minimum-wordpress-version/#post-1653701)
 * Status: not a support question