Feature Status Check

If you have a large number of plugins installed on your site, each one must be checked against wordpress.org, this can take a significant amount of time.

By default, Feature Status Check sets up a daily cron job to cache this data so you should never see this, but if there is a problem with cron, or you want to manually update the data then this may take a while to load while this data is retrieved.

What do the different status’ mean?

Not Found means the plugin does not exist in the wordpress.org plugin directory. You’ll have to manually check it from where you installed the plugin from. Out of Date means there is a new version of the plugin ready to install. Up to Date means that the plugin has been tested within the last three years and the current version is installed. Un-Tested means that the plugin has not been tested with WordPress or updated in 3 years or more. Temporarily Closed means the plugin is temporarily available for download from the wordpress.org plugin directory. This is often due to a security issue or a violation of the community standards. How long the plugin will remain in this state has a couple of factors to it, but in general no longer than 60 days. Closed means the plugin is permanently closed.

I’ve updated a plugin, why hasn’t it changed in the report?

To keep the traffic to wordpress.org to a minimum, the plugin will only update the data daily. If you want to update the data manually, you can do so through the settings page or at the bottom of the Status Check menu under Plugins/Appearance.