Modules Insight

Modules Insight is a simple WordPress plugin that lists all installed plugins, showing which are active and which are inactive. Ideal for developers and site managers needing a quick status overview.

MI adds a widget to your Dashboard and provides a shortcode [plugin_list] for displaying the plugin status list. It also allows Administrators to download the list as a .json report directly from the widget or shortcode output.

MI is completely read-only and does not make any changes to your site’s plugin activation status.

✨ Key Features

• 📋 Lists all installed plugins (active, inactive, network active)
• ✅ Includes plugin name and version.
• 📊 Displays a summary count of plugins
• 📁 Allows Administrators to export plugin data as a .json report
• 🖥 Adds a convenient Dashboard Widget
• [plugin_list] Shortcode support for display anywhere
• • Upcoming: Plugin description on generated page
• 🛡 100% read-only — safe for production use

💡 Use Cases

• 🧾 Client reports on installed plugins
• 🚧 Pre-deployment or pre-update plugin checks
• 🔒 Identifying potentially unused plugins for cleanup
• 👥 Sharing plugin status easily with your team or support

Credits

Made with ❤️ by Pedro Matias for WordPress developers and admins.

1. Upload the modules-insight folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugin screen directly (Plugins > Add New).
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Check your Dashboard for the “Modules Insight – Plugin List” widget.
4. Alternatively, use the shortcode [plugin_list] on any page or post to display the list.
5. Administrators will see a “Download List as JSON” button within the widget/shortcode output.

1. 

   The Modules Insight dashboard widget showing active/inactive plugins.

2. 

   The "Download List as JSON" button available to administrators and structure of the exported JSON file.

3. 

   Example of a page generated using ths shorcode and the collapsed description view using <details>.

4. 

   Example of "print" page using shortcode and automatic expanded description view using <details>.

2.1.2

• Fix: Use current_time() instead of date() for JSON filename timestamp to respect WordPress timezone settings (Fixes PHPCS error).

2.1.1

• Feature: Wrap plugin descriptions in <details>/<summary> tags for a cleaner default view.
• Fix: Add required translators: comments for internationalization functions with placeholders (Fixes Plugin Check error).
• Fix: Ensure <details> and <summary> tags are allowed in wp_kses for the dashboard widget.
• Refine: Improve multisite plugin detection slightly.
• Refine: Use case-insensitive sorting for plugin lists.

2.1.0

• Refactor: Introduce helper function get_plugin_insight_data() to centralize data retrieval.
• Security: Regenerate plugin data on download instead of passing via POST.
• Security: Add capability checks (activate_plugins) for viewing list and downloading JSON.
• Security: Remove nopriv action hook for downloads.
• Feature: Add more plugin details (version, description, author, URIs) to data structure.
• Feature: Handle network-activated plugins on multisite installs.
• Improvement: Use wp_json_encode() for standard JSON output.
• Improvement: Use output buffering and proper escaping (esc_*, wp_kses_post) throughout HTML generation.
• Improvement: Make widget title translatable.
• Fix: Address various Plugin Check escaping errors.

2.0.2

• Initial version shared for review (contained shortcode, dashboard widget, basic JSON download via POST).

1.0.0

• (Internal/Previous Version) Initial concept release.