Not really useful

  • I wanted to use this plugin to detect when malicious code is injected into wordpress files. In general, this plugin indeed detects changes to files, but there are at least to major issues.

    Firstly, Plugin/theme updates flood the change overview with thousands of files, which per se is good as these files changed. But there is no option to say “mark all the files in that directory as read”, so you have the options to just mark all the 37?000 files as read, or step through them in sets of 100 and mark them as read.

    Secondly, after some days the plugin just stopped working and did not remember new scans, so that the same files were reported on and on without having been changed in the meantime. Sometimes there is a message like “whoops, there was an error, contact us at [email]”, but sorry, no, after writing this review I do not want to spend any more time on this plugin.

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  • Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    Hello @elkei24

    Thank you for using our plugin and I am sorry to read about your experience.

    As such a theme update should not result in many file changes. Theme, plugins and WordPress core updates are grouped into individual updates. For example if there are 40 file changes in an update, you only get one notification in the UI and should you wish, you can see the individual changes. Though you should not have thousands of notifications.

    Clearly something did not work with our plugin on your setup. The same with the scan stopping – that should not happen. The best thing to do is to get in touch with support.

    Of course I won’t and cannot force you to contact support. However, in my books it is a good thing to see that support is available for a free plugin. So personally I would get in touch with support and help them solve the issue.

    Unfortunately as developers we cannot reproduce and cater for all different setups. So by sharing information with us you help us improve the plugin. That is the best way to go forward if you want to see this and all the other plugins you use improve.

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