Hi everyone, it’s winter at last, and there’s snow in the mountains! This is the perfect time to sit by the fire and look at your plugins and get rid of the ones you don’t want to be on the hook for any more.
Did you make a plugin 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 for an event that happened a long time ago, like the 2008 Olympics? Did you make a featured plugin that got wrapped into core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and you’re done?
Email plugins@wordpress.org with a link to the plugin and we’ll close it for you!
Doing this means you won’t get any new people complaining about how the plugin doesn’t work and disables itself in WP 4.3 and up (even though you documented it…). It’s less work for you and it’s okay to EoL plugins. We’ll close ’em for you and you’ll be done.
A lovely winter present for everyone.
(If you think the plugin has a use and life, but you don’t want to support it anymore, consider adding the tag ‘adopt me’ to your readme. Just update your readme file with that and maybe someone will come and offer a new home for your old plugin. Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/adopt-me to see the plugins out there looking for you!)
#reminder
