OutPlug

OutPlug helps WordPress site owners:

• Detect plugins that haven’t been updated in a configurable number of months.
• Highlight outdated plugins in the admin plugin list.
• Display stale plugins in a dashboard widget with a red exclamation mark.
• Optionally send email alerts to the site administrator when stale plugins are detected.

OutPlug is lightweight, safe, and follows WordPress best practices using the Settings API and transients for caching.

External services

This plugin connects to an API to obtain plugin information via the WordPress Plugin API, it’s needed to show the date the plugin was last updated.

It sends the each individual plugin to the API to determine the information either when the page is loaded or when it is refreshed.

More information can be found at https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/

Arbitrary Section

Optional configuration file: outplug-config.php
– stale_months : integer, months before plugin is considered stale
– send_emails : boolean, send email alerts to admin
– debug : boolean, log debug info to PHP error log

1. Upload the outplug folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to Tools > OutPlug to configure the settings:
   • Set the number of months before a plugin is considered stale.
   • Enable or disable email alerts to the admin.
4. Optionally create outplug-config.php in the plugin folder to override defaults.

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Plugin scanning and highlighting of stale plugins
• Dashboard widget showing stale plugins
• Settings page with months/email options
• Optional debug logging