{"id":4907,"date":"2018-04-16T01:39:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T05:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2018-04-13T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:59:09","slug":"what-does-it-mean-when-wordpress-removes-a-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2018\/04\/16\/what-does-it-mean-when-wordpress-removes-a-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean When WordPress Removes a Plugin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4334\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_13251382_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_13251382_s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Expect the unexpected.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_13251382_s-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_13251382_s-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_13251382_s.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expect the Unexpected.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just today WordFence notified me that the Feedburner WordPress plugin had been removed from WordPress.org. What does that exactly mean for you?<\/p>\n<p>When a plugin is removed from WordPress.org it means either the plugin has been compromised, it does not work with\u00a0current WordPress versions, \u00a0or that it has been abandoned.\u00a0 Plugins cannot work with\u00a0current \u00a0versions of WordPress if the plugin author is not doing regular updates.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.org polices their plugin archive and if a plugin may cause problems with new versions of WordPress they tag it. WordFence, which we use for security management of WordPress applications, scans the WordPress.org archive and advises us if plugins in use in a client WordPress installation are up to date.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several instances lately where plugins dropped from WordPress.org had been used by bad actors on the web to send out malware and to spamvertise a website.<\/p>\n<p>My rule is that if the plugin has been removed from WordPress.org, we remove it from our client sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/what-to-do-when-a-plugin-is-removed-from-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more about this topic today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just today WordFence notified me that the Feedburner WordPress plugin had been removed from WordPress.org. What does that exactly mean for you? When a plugin is removed from WordPress.org it means either the plugin has been compromised, it does not work with\u00a0current WordPress versions, \u00a0or that it has been abandoned.\u00a0 Plugins cannot work with\u00a0current \u00a0versions of WordPress if the plugin author is not doing regular updates. WordPress.org polices their plugin archive and if a plugin may cause problems with new versions of WordPress they tag it. WordFence, which we use for security management of WordPress applications, scans the WordPress.org archive and advises us if plugins in use in a client WordPress installation are up to date. There have been several instances lately where plugins dropped from WordPress.org had been used by bad actors on the web to send out malware and to spamvertise a website. My rule is that if the plugin has been removed from WordPress.org, we remove it from our client sites. Find out more about this topic today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-plugins","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}