Title: Only partially useful
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Only partially useful

 *  [ecdltf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecdltf/)
 * (@ecdltf)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-partially-useful/)
 * Sorry, but this plugin still needs a lot of work:
 * For example …
 * It’s telling me to remove a deactivated theme (“critical”). What’s happening 
   is that I’m using a child theme, so removing the mother theme certainly is _not_
   a good idea.
 * It’s flagging deactivated plugins as “critical”. Why on earth should this be 
   critical? Maybe worth a warning or a note, but certainly not critical!
 * The same goes for many other things. An inflationary use of “critical” is not
   OK for a security scanner. It makes the user ignore all the issues alltogether,
   including the really critical ones!
 * It definitively says I’m not affected by Shellshock, but it flags this as a “
   warning”. Why?
 * 2 stars for the – sometimes – good explications and instructions.

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