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http://www.pluginmirror.com/status

WP SVN Total: 39,468
Cloned to Git: 12,337

Can someone explain the discrepancy? Why not clone all plugins?

Thanks beforehand.

On mobile, fyi.

Hi, this plugin doesn't seem to be updating plugins since september last year. has something changed?

I'm wondering what would cause this repo (https://github.com/wp-plugins/wp-members) to not be updated. It's more than a dozen commits behind the wp.org repo.

Hi,
I have deleted my plugin from wordpress as well as from svn repository. But I can still see it in pluginMirror. Please let me know, how can I delete the plugin from github?

One extremely annoying problem with pluginmirror.com is that it assumes plugins which are not published currently but are present in the repository have "licensing issues or security problems". For alot of plugins this simply isn't the case.

There's many reasons a plugin could be in the repo that has nothing to do with licensing or security problems, for example, an author asking for their plugin to be removed from wp.org keeps the plugin in the repository, but disables the public view.

In such instances, it looks really bad for the plugin author, because pluginmirror is basically stating that the plugins are either unsafe or not licensed correctly, which in many cases is simple not true at all.

Either pluginmirror.com should come up with a better system for managing cases like this, or better yet, pluginmirror shouldn't show plugins that aren't listed.

Let's say I went out and made a plugin called Bad Security which is approved for the repo. 3 months later, Bad Security is pulled from wp.org for a huge security risk. Meanwhile pluginmirror not only continues showing the plugin on its site, but in additition the GitHub repo pluginmirror makes then gains SEO ranking from Google since its the only front facing website now with that plugin. Users who then search for Bad Security now end up on pluginmirror's GitHub repo, and download the plugin, completely unaware that there's a gigantic security vulnerability.

Now, there are also legitimate reasons for pulling a plugin from WordPress.org. Maybe it doesn't work with newer WordPress versions, or perhaps, and more likely, maybe it integrates with a service that either no longer exists or no longer supports the API that the plugin was built on.

Another consequence of doing such a thing, is licensing. Lets say a plugin was submitted to the repository, and that plugin is just a copy of a commercial non-GPL compatible program. Since pluginmirror automatically forks non-listed plugins, doing so could get you guys in a heck of alot of trouble if say you're making a commercially licensed (non-GPL compatible) item available on GitHub. Avoiding the whole what license do WP plugins have to be debate, a plugin could be unlisted because they used a commercial Javascript graphing library. By showing that code publically on your site, Bluehost is risking getting into a license lawsuit or discussion, when it could simply avoid it.

By listing plugins that aren't publically displayed, and by forking the code on GitHub, pluginmirror encourages usage of insecure and/or non-GPL compatible and/or legitimate reason for removal plugins. The simple solution is don't show and don't fork non listed ones.

Hey Team,

Recently found you guys as I run a Wordpress development on GIT and I was so excited, except my excitement has been dampened since many of the plugins don't seem to be updating lately. And I'm not talking a few days, I'm talking 4 months +

What do you need to get this back up and working? Its a hugely valuable resource you have and I'd hate to see it go to waste, I'd also really like to use these REPO's knowing and trusting that they will be up to date.

The one I found this morning is http://www.pluginmirror.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/ but I've found like 10 others in the last 3 days along.

Let me know what you need, as I really need this working.

Thanks.

I am having about 10 plugin's hosted in wp plugins directory

all my plugins are hosted in wp & github. i want to use github for tracking issues and releases.

and one of my plugin's issue was automatically referred from wp to github.

how this can be done. ?

varunsridharan/woocommerce-attributes-menu-manager#1

https://github.com/technofreaky/WooCommerce-Attributes-Menu-Manager

Hi,
I did a Github search app and i often see pluginmirror in search results.
I think you should change the title for the plugin title and maybe add your plugin mirror at the end of the original title

Take this plugin for example: http://www.pluginmirror.com/plugins/wp-post-date-remover

The plugin is still hosted and functional. A github link is even created for it, but it hasn't been cloned.

Hi All,

We contacted WordPress who removed our plugin from the svn months ago but after searching it is still showing on this repo please remove.

Its no longer listed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/s3bubble-amazon-s3-html-5-video-with-adverts/

But you still have it listed here.
https://github.com/wp-plugins/s3bubble-amazon-s3-html-5-video-with-adverts/

Please remove this plugin.

Thanks

The number of plugins in the "Updating" category on the status page seems to have been consistently rising for at least a week. One plugin I follow was updated on the 9th in the .org repo, but the changes haven't been mirrored to GitHub. I've been watching the status page since then, and haven't seen any downward movement. For example, most of the WP community (developers at least) is aware of the recent security fixes for WordPress SEO by Yoast, but it's changes haven't been mirrored, despite being released 5 days ago.