[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41763: Create a new site info page within wp-admin

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#41763: Create a new site info page within wp-admin
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 Reporter:  danieltj            |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration      |    Version:  4.8.1
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, administration  |
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 This is mainly related to this comment
 (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40934#comment:42) in a ticket
 about minimum PHP versions. I'd like to propose a simple and to the point
 page within WordPress that should some statistical information about the
 current version of WordPress, PHP and MySQL.

 Personally I think it'd be ''a very bad idea'' to put these bits of
 information in the footer of wp-admin because when an update is available,
 this information is no longer in the footer and is replaced with an
 upgrade link.

 My thoughts on this right now is to include stats/information page within
 wp-admin that shows current site and host config data to administrator
 users via manage_options. Or potentially a new capability of
 read_config_info.

 Whilst having an entire page dedicated to this information may seem
 somewhat overkill, it's always handy to know this sort of thing and would
 probably come in hand more than we may realise. Additionally, this could
 pave the way for usage stats to be collected etc but that's a whole
 different thing for another conversation.

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