Donna Cavalier

I feel like I’ve been shouting in a vacuum, and no one ever hears exactly what I’m saying. It’s not JUST a matter of whether or not we know WHY a plugin disappears. You know what really matters? It matters that we know THAT it disappeared. Here’s why it matters so much. If a plugin disappears, and it NEVER comes back (which happens! – *contact form db comes to mind*), then possibly thousands of users – or more – will never ever know that they are running an old, probably outdated, possibly vulnerable plugin. Even if they go every day, every hour, or every minute, to their site’s plugin admin page, that plugin will never show them that there is anything wrong, never show them that it is old or outdated or vulnerable. For the next 599 years, they will never, ever know. Unless, they just happen to stumble upon a discussion about it somewhere, or they just happen to try to find the plugin page on wp.org. But the thing that is supposed to tell them about the plugins they use – their site’s plugin admin page – will never, ever tell them anything at all. Nothing. They will always think they have the latest, greatest version of the plugin. THAT. IS. WRONG. Please, please, core people, figure something out. Don’t push this under the rug because it is hard. You’ve done harder things. Thousands of times, you’ve done harder things. Not that I’m in the know, but yeah…I only have to use WordPress to know you’ve done amazing, wonderful, hard things.

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