# Admin menu feature: view installed plugins

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 1, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353 "2014-02-01T11:37:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353/2 "2014-02-01T11:52:47Z")

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I’d love it if [SemVer](http://semver.org/) was strongly recommended or even _required_.

Author URL should be optional.

Recommended additions, both mandatory:

```
# Compatibility: Last version of Discourse tested against.
# Contact: How can the developer(s) be reached?

```

I don’t know how exactly WordPress does its compatibility check that prompts the “this plugin has not been tested with your version”-notice when you install/update a plugin from within the admin panel, but I think it’s an incredibly useful heads-up and I figured this would be a decent first take on it.

(I think it’s based on the “Broken/Works” user vote data they gather **after** the plugin has been submitted. Still don’t know where they get the “Required: some version” and “Compatible up to: some version” though.)

As for contact, it’s just my belief that any self-respecting open source developer ought have an open line of communication of some sort. It wouldn’t have to be an e-mail, but there should be _something_ put there that indicates how the developer would prefer to be contacted.

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