Check if Installed Plugins Are No Longer in the Plugin Directory

[miya0001]

https://wptavern.com/how-to-check-if-installed-plugins-are-no-longer-in-the-plugin-directory

Displays whether it is in plugin directory like following.

$ wp plugin list
+-----------------------+--------+--------+---------+-----------------+
| name                  | status | update | version | wordpress.org   |
+-----------------------+--------+--------+---------+-----------------+
| hello-dolly           | active | none   | 1.6     | true            |
| jetpack               | active | none   | 4.6     | true            |
| my-plugin             | active | none   | 0.1.0   | false           |
+-----------------------+--------+--------+---------+-----------------+

[1naveengiri]

can you suggest in points? how it will be helpful.

[swissspidy]

I recently created this as a composer drop-in: https://github.com/wearerequired/composer-scripts

It's useful when you want to quickly list abandoned plugins that you should probably replace.

[danielbachhuber]

@swissspidy It looks like your implementation simply compares the last_updated value from the plugins API. If this is the case, the WP-CLI implementation could add an optional last_updated column to wp plugin list with some human-readable value.

[swissspidy]

Yep, could be as simple as that.

[eriktorsner]

Couldn't tell from reading the code, but does it detect plugins that are removed from the wordpress.org repo?

[swissspidy]

Yes, that composer drop-in detects if a plugin:

• has been pulled from the WordPress Plugin Directory (usually still available via Subversion).
• has not been updated in over two years and thus should be used carefully.

[marksabbath]

Working on this one.

[marksabbath]

I've implemented this here and since it needs to contact the wp repository, wp plugin list is considerably slowed.

At this point, I'm not sure if this is something that would fit in the wp plugin list itself.

Could someone review the code and let me know if there's anything we could do to make it better?

[janw-me]

I will work on this today.