RequiredCompatibility

This is documentation about a configuration directive, which can be placed within Movable Type’s core configuration file, mt-config.cgi, to customize the behavior of the system.

Specifies Movable Type version compatibility for plugin use. Setting to an older version maintains compatibility with older plugins, but with a performance cost.

Allowed Values

• 0 (compatible with all versions)
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• etc.

Default

0

Examples

Consider a plugin written based on Movable Type 3. The API used in that version becomes deprecated in version 4 and higher, so if RequiredCompatibility were set to 4, the plugin would not work since the API could not load correctly. In this situation, you would need to use a value of 3 or lower:

RequiredCompatibility 3

On the other hand, if the plugin in question does not rely on any API, the RequiredCompatibility value could be set to 5 or higher, allowing the plugin to work faster.

RequiredCompatibility 6