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Matt announced today at the 2011 State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. that plugins and themes are now hidden from the search results (on both WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ and in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme install screens) if they have not been updated in two years.

For plugins only: Older plugins that are still compatible and secure only need to have their “requires” and “tested up to” version numbers bumped. If you do this, actually releasing a new version of the plugin is not necessary, so leave the version number the same.

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Ramoonus 5:30 pm on August 15, 2011

isn`t 2 years a bit long? I always stop using plugins which haven`t been updated for 1 year.
- Andrew Nacin 3:16 am on August 16, 2011
  
  It’s a start.
- Jeremy 3:20 pm on August 16, 2011
  
  Might there be plugins out there that are so good and really basic that their utility spans greater than 2 years?
  It seems that you would want something more to go off of in addition to the last modified date.
  - Andrew Nacin 10:32 pm on August 16, 2011
    
    We looked at the old plugins with the highest download counts and saw nothing that caught our eye. Ultimately, if a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party author can’t update just the “Tested up to” version, then it’s pretty safe to consider it abandoned. The “Tested up to” values for such plugins are no higher than 3.0, and most are far worse. Otto and I are going to poke around the data and see if further refinements can be made, though.
Pasta Maker 8:04 pm on August 15, 2011

Why 2 years and not a shorter period? From what I understand, many wordpress plugins/themes are not really secure and can be easily hackedhacked . Is that true?
pavelevap 5:44 pm on August 16, 2011

Old plugins should be also hidden from tags archive on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/?
- Andrew Nacin 10:33 pm on August 16, 2011
  
  We’re not there yet — it’s just a pilot with search.
Mark 12:15 am on August 17, 2011

Rather than just hide plugins I think it could be useful for them to be listed somewhere for new would-be authors to get inspiration and learn.
- DrewAPicture 6:20 am on August 22, 2011
  
  Agreed. Though they’d be hidden from main search, it would be nice to still be able to search/browse them elsewhere .Forks could/would happen.
Adam 8:36 pm on August 17, 2011

I think this is a good policy. You get rid of plugins and themes that may not work with the newest flavors of WP and it causes less problems. Thanks!

-A
WraithKenny 6:33 pm on December 14, 2011

Is this still a two year limit, or is it now a “tested” version?

WP-reCAPTCHA has disappeared (I assume it was marked abandoned), but it looks like it was updated 8 months ago, but was only tested up to 2.9.1. It looks to be a truly abandoned pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party as the authors site is gone, yet people still use this plugin (even if they have to patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. it themselves).

Any news on the adopt-a-plugin program?

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