Owned by Automattic, but not updated for 3 years!

  • Is this plugin still working in WP 5.5?
    Is it still reliable?
    It still gets recommended here: https://www.wpstuffs.com/detect-malicious-code-wordpress-themes-plugins/

    We often have sites from agencies to fix which seem to be using Free downloaded commercial themes and Nulled Plugins. They often cleaned the problems up pretty well but sometimes they miss parts and the the sites or actually complete servers seem to be turned over to hackers.

    Saying this the easiest way to secure WordPress and to make WordPress safer would actually be to provide all commercial themes and plugins also as a CLEAN(edup) version – but really cleaned up version on a trusted site. Only that way Networks like WP-VCD could be stopped with their malicious sites and finally WordPress would be made much securer. Instead of charging for 1 sites, 5 sites etc licenses which actually are not compliant with GNU GPL anyway as GPL says you can modify, copy, and even redistribute the code as long as you keep the same licenses in place. It would be much better that they focus on their reputation and helping the community of all to use cleaned code and benefit from support and more project requests due to their much better visibility.

    Anyway that is not the question here – we have to deal still with those malicious sites and clean up the mess, So what plugins to do so are still working in 5.5 as this one hasn’t been updated by even Automatic!!! since 3 years – does not really speak for their reputation either or?

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