Few issues based on Theme Review Guidelines about merlinwp HOT 8 CLOSED

As per using it in a child theme, I submitted this PR which would allow us to use in a child theme and a plugin. #118

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What would you suggest for the fourth point?

A link as such:
WP Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Wizard

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@jb510 Way I see it, about 50% of our users (a big chunk) still use pre 7.0PHP.

There aren't many compatibility issues with PHP 5.6.x if you code for PHP 7.X, unless you use the new fancy things.

Many hosts are pushing PHP7 as of now and have one-click-setups to get it on your server. Unfortunately, Envato, as well as MOJO have been quite slow in adopting new changes from what I saw as well as talking to others.

Very good point. These users aren't buying any new themes, but it's a bit skewed to look at it this way. Envato would still be missing on ~34% of the market share (pre 5.5), which is just a crime.

So, from a business perspective, you need to hold on to these users.

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I've penned in time tomorrow morning to review the PR. Thanks @JiveDig !

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All great points @ernilambar. 👍

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PHP Compat:
Mark Jaquith just published a really nice graceful failing PHP version check https://gist.github.com/markjaquith/a08623974b37c2cf0207ee2b120b54da

Just my two cents (I've followed this project with great interset for a while), but I see no reason to support pre-5.3 (actually I don't bother with pre-5.4 for new code/sites/themes). The 3% of WordPress sites still running 5.2 aren't installing new themes, and if they are now is the time they should upgrade. I personally feel the same about the 9% running 5.3, I have no qualms about pushing them to upgrade.
https://wordpress.org/about/stats/

Child Themes:
FWIW, I hope to use this for Genesis Child themes.

Plugin Installation:
Yes to checkboxes, but as a theme developer, I'd like to set some plugins to required and some optional.

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• my cent
  add the first step of verifying the version of WordPress
  as it is done in Twenty Seventeen

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@richtabor awesome thanks! LOVING Merlin so far. Also, this one could help a lot of us as well #120 (no PR though, but worth discussing)

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