{"id":83252,"date":"2012-06-25T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=83252"},"modified":"2012-06-25T06:03:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T10:03:33","slug":"wordpress-plugins-last-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-plugins-last-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins: Monitor When They Were Last Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-83254\" title=\"Plugin Last Updated\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/plugin-last-updated-tn-1.png\" alt=\"Plugin Last Updated\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/>A lot of people may shrug their shoulders at this plugin, but in my opinion, its very simple singular function should have been included in WordPress as standard a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; for the most part, old plugins not a good thing. If you have plugins on your WordPress site that haven&#8217;t been updated in many months (or even years), they could adversely affect your site&#8217;s performance (and\/or functionality), or even represent a security threat (<a title=\"TimThumb\" href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2011\/08\/the-timthumb-saga\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TimThumb<\/a> anyone?).<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind,\u00a0<a title=\"Plugin Last Updated\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/plugin-last-updated\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plugin Last Updated<\/a>\u00a0gives you an easy way to check when your plugins were last updated:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83253\" title=\"Plugin Last Updated\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/plugin-last-updated.jpg\" alt=\"Plugin Last Updated\" width=\"684\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a glance, you can now see which of your plugins are being neglected by their developer, which empowers you to make a decision as to whether or not you should keep the outdated ones.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plugin Last Updated\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/plugin-last-updated\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download Plugin Last Updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check when your installed plugins were last updated with Plugin Last Updated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84405,"featured_media":83255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[992],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-83252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216652,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83252\/revisions\/216652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83252"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=83252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}