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Spot plugins that are no longer maintained.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Find plugins that are no longer active on multisite installs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.

Green Website

<p><strong>GW Info Box</strong> is a lightweight and practical tool that lets you display information about any plugin hosted on WordPress.org.</p>
<p>Perfect for plugin developers, reviewers, or documentation authors who want to reference plugins dynamically.<br />
This plugin fetches public plugin data from WordPress.org APIs in order to display plugin information in a styled box.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display plugin name, author, version, last updated, downloads, rating, icon and description</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast – no settings, just use the shortcode</li>
<li>Automatically pulls real-time data from WordPress.org</li>
<li>Admin help page under <strong>Tools > GW Info Box</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Use the shortcode:</p>
<p>[gw_info_box slug=”your-plugin-slug” icon=”true”]</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the official WordPress.org API to retrieve public plugin data such as name, version, author, ratings, download count, and other details.</p>
<p>The following external services are used:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>WordPress.org Plugin Information API</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Purpose</strong>: To retrieve details about any WordPress.org plugin (e.g. name, version, author, last updated, rating).</li>
<li><strong>Data sent</strong>: The plugin slug entered in the shortcode is sent to the API.</li>
<li><strong>When</strong>: Every time the shortcode is loaded on the frontend.</li>
<li><strong>Service URL</strong>: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/tos/" rel="ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>WordPress.org Plugin Download Stats API</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Purpose</strong>: To retrieve download statistics for the specified plugin.</li>
<li><strong>Data sent</strong>: The plugin slug entered in the shortcode is sent to the API.</li>
<li><strong>When</strong>: Every time the shortcode is loaded on the frontend.</li>
<li><strong>Service URL</strong>: https://api.wordpress.org/stats/plugin/1.0/</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/tos/" rel="ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>


GW Info Box

Display live WordPress.org plugin information in a clean, styled box – using a simple shortcode.

Plugin Report vs GW Info Box