Niels Lange

<p><strong>SMNTCS Show Symlinked Plugins</strong> is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to prevent the accidental deletion or updating of symlinked plugins. It is an essential tool for developers who use symbolic links (symlinks) for plugin development or deployment.</p>
<p>When working with WordPress, it is quite common to symlink plugins for various reasons. For example, you might want to test changes without affecting the original plugin, or symlink plugins across multiple sites for easy updates. However, WordPress, by default, does not distinguish between regular and symlinked plugins on the admin plugins page. This can lead to unintended deletions or updates.</p>
<p><strong>SMNTCS Show Symlinked Plugins</strong> addresses this by adding visible indicators to symlinked plugins and adjusting their options.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>Indicate Symlinked Plugins</h3>
<p>The plugin adds a ‘Symlinked’ text indicator in front of the action row of each symlinked plugin on the WordPress plugins page. This makes it visually clear which plugins are symlinked, helping you to avoid mistakes.</p>
<h3>Adjust Plugin Actions</h3>
<p>For symlinked plugins, the plugin removes the delete button when the plugin is inactive, ensuring that you cannot accidentally delete symlinked plugins. Furthermore, it removes the option to enable auto-updates for symlinked plugins to prevent unintentional updates.</p>
<h3>Custom Styling</h3>
<p>The plugin comes with an admin CSS file that you can customize to adjust how symlinked plugins are displayed.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>Contributions are more than welcome. Simply head over to <a href="https://github.com/nielslange/smntcs-show-symlinked-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> and open an issue or a pull request.</p>


SMNTCS Show Symlinked Plugins


Very useful tool if you're a developer. It correctly highlights all plugins that are symlinked and prevents me from accidentally update/delete them. Good job!


Must have tool!

Prevent accidentally deleting or updating symlinked plugins.

Pedro Mendonça

Roy Tanck

Christoph Daum

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Spot plugins that are no longer maintained.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.

SMNTCS Show Symlinked Plugins vs Plugin Report