Carl Gross

<p>WordPress plugins frequently become abandoned by their developers, and in-turn, develop security vulnerabilities.  If one of these plugins is installed on your site, it will put your site at risk, without any warning or indication.  Outdated Plugin Notifier is a lightweight and unobtrusive plugin that helps you stay aware of these situations.  Outdated Plugin Notifier monitors your plugins and tells you exactly when each plugin was last updated by its developer.  If a plugin has been expelled from the WordPress plugin repository, Outdated Plugin Notifier will display that information as well.</p>
<p>To use, simply install and activate the plugin.  There is no additional configuration required.  After, open the plugin admin page from your WordPress dashboard and you will see a new column displayed in the table:  Last Dev Update.  This column will indicate the last date the plugin was updated by its developer.  If it has been several months–or years–since the developer last updated the plugin, you may want to contact the developer to confirm the plugin is still maintained.  If the plugin is no longer in the WordPress plugin repository, Outdated Plugin Notifier will indicate so on the plugins admin page, and suggest you remove and/or replace the plugin.</p>


Outdated Plugin Notifier

Very handy during my annual plugin check.

It does just what it says

To the plugins admin table, adds a new column indicating the last time the plugin developer released an update.

Pedro Mendonça

Roy Tanck

Torsten Landsiedel

<p>A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.</p>
<h3>Plugin Report will allow you to:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Spot plugins that are no longer maintained.</li>
<li>Get a quick overview of the “plugin health” of your site.</li>
<li>Provide clients with a detailed report, right from their own dashboard, or as CSV spreadsheet.</li>
<li>Find plugins that are no longer active on multisite installs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Thanks to Roy Tanck for trusting me to adopt this great plugin. Hartelijk bedankt!</p>
<p>Special thanks go to <a href="http://tristen.ca/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tristen Forsythe Brown</a> for the <a href="https://github.com/tristen/tablesort" rel="nofollow ugc">tablesort JavaScript library</a> licensed under the MIT License.</p>


Plugin Report

If a plugin hasn't been updated for a long time and isn't tested with the current WordPress version, it doesn't necessarily mean it's broken. But it's worth checking if there are better alternatives available that are being actively developed. 

If you easily want to check and improve your website, this plugin comes in really handy: It tells you, what WordPress version you are using and if the plugin developers have tested their plugin with that version. You can also easily check, when the plugin had it's last update. Plugins which haven't been updated lately get highlighted, which makes it even easier to take action. This all happens without much hassle: install the plugin, go to menu plugins > plugin report and give it a minute to sample all necessary informations and you immediately know, where you should try plugins which are more up to date.

Maintaining your WordPress site can be so easy, if you use such a great tool.

Great way to keep your site up to date

This plugin especially useful when you have dozens of them (in my case 50+).
Plugin Report works nicely with paid plugins as well.

I love how it loads all the plugins one by one (great UX) and "Last update" column.

Instead of "No data available" it could display juts "-". less clutter, but not critical.
The plugin lacks sorting by columns, and/or filtering, but still very useful.

Small and useful to have plugins under control


This is going straight into my toolkit.



It fills a critical need that probably should be part of WordPress core, and it does so in a simple and straight-forward way.



Thank you!


A Toolkit Must-Have

A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.

Outdated Plugin Notifier vs Plugin Report