Changed Files after Installed

I am presuming you are updating files on the repository hosted plugin which hasn’t shown as updated due to you not changing the version number.

I would like to call attention to something you might not be considering. I have several sites with your plugin installed. I also have Wordfence plugin installed.

Wordfence checks files installed on websites with files hosted on WordPress.org. When a discrepancy arises, owners of websites are alerted with changed file warnings. They do that to help website owners and managers to protect their own sites.

When an author starts changing files hosted on WordPress.org and doesn’t change the version of the plugin, they can cause unnecessary concern for owners and managers of websites.

There have been a number of plugins hosted on WordPress.org in recent months that were used to do malicious things or used to market inappropriately which had to be fixed. When you choose to update files on WordPress.org and not cause an update notification for your plugin, many people become confused and wonder if their sites are being hacked, or the owner of the plugin is writing code to do things that shouldn’t be done.

Please consider updating your plugin version so that there is a notice to update instead of us receiving warnings that the WordPress.org hosted version of your plugin is different from what is installed on our sites.

Please also consider there is justifiable reasoning for being concerned when a warning is issued by a security plugin, due to plugin file differences between WordPress.org hosted files and files installed on websites.

Thanks