OutPlug

OutPlug scans your WordPress site for outdated plugins and alerts you when updates are overdue.

Author:Lens Digital (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:6.8
WordPress version tested:6.8.5
Plugin version:1.0.0
Added to WordPress repository:01-12-2025
Last updated:01-12-2025
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Total downloads:121
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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  • Highlight outdated plugins in the admin plugin list.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


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