Why has the plugin been removed from the WP repository?

Resolved diegocanal
(@diegocanal)

5 years, 6 months ago

I can see it’s been removed. WP’s policy of not given explanations when a plugin is removes is very frustrating. What’ been the issue: copyright infringement, plugin voluntarily removed by the author, malware?

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Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

5 years, 6 months ago

I have no idea and try to figure it out!

Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

5 years, 6 months ago

An E-Mail address of one of the contributors bounced, so WordPress deactivated the plugin. I am in contact with both, to reactivate it.

Thread Starter diegocanal
(@diegocanal)

5 years, 6 months ago

Thanks Matthias for keeping us posted. I hope the situation gets solved rapidly. As soon as I notice a plugin has been removed from the WP repository –Wordfence tells me so immediately– I disable it from all of my websites, just in case.

I wish WP admins gave explanations so the users can take action based on an informed decision –I guess they don’t do it as a legal defensive policy–.

Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

5 years, 6 months ago

Ah ok, it is definitely not because of a security issue!

The reason why a plugin was shut down normaly shows 6 month after a shut down: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/alerts-and-warnings/

I think this is because of security issues.
Thread Starter diegocanal
(@diegocanal)

5 years, 6 months ago
The reason why a plugin was shut down normaly shows 6 month after a shut down: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/alerts-and-warnings/

I think this is because of security issues.

I am afraid I don’t think that is the way it usually works. Last year I saw how WP-SpamShield, a plugin with more than 100,000 active installations, was removed from the WP repository. To this day (one year after) the reasons why it was removed are unknown https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/
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Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

5 years, 5 months ago

Online again 🙂

Thread Starter diegocanal
(@diegocanal)

5 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for keeping us posted. I am glad it’s back again 🙂

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