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Good on you for this contribution. Plugins can be a liability in so many ways. I remember almost a decade ago, a favorite plugin of my clients' was sold by the
by themodelplumber 9y ago
Good on you for this contribution. Plugins can be a liability in so many ways. I remember almost a decade ago, a favorite plugin of my clients' was sold by the original dev to a third party. From that day on the quality of support and release schedule both took a dive, and soon after we started receiving telecommunications product spam from the new vendor. Like telephony solutions, which were completely unrelated to the plugin.
After having spent hundreds of hours customizing that plugin, this was a devastating experience. I'm still leery of plugins and rarely install anything that could leave me stranded if it went unsupported one day.
- shash7 9y agoYeah they can be downright dangerous. Some time ago, hackers got access to a plugin on wordpress.org and injected it with malicious code. Nobody even knew until Sucuri released a blog post about it. At wpplugincheck we verify the plugin is clean by checking for any issues at wpvulndb. I'm also looking at automating plugin code testing.