Title: Remove Ancient Plugins
Last modified: August 27, 2017

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# Remove Ancient Plugins

 *  [ezekielloves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ezekielloves/)
 * (@ezekielloves)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/)
 * Please remove plugins which have not been updated for years. When I am searching
   for a plugin, I see there are a lot of expired plugins, even those that have **
   not been updated for 4 years**.
    Removing such plugins will help to declutter
   the repository and provide better user experience and smooth search navigation.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9445869)
 * What if those plugins haven’t been updated for that long because they don’t need
   to be? Not everything that’s old means that it’s been abandoned.
 * I personally use one pluign on all of my sites that’s over 3 years old, and it
   while it’s only relatively simple, it still works exactly as it’s meant to, so
   there’s no reason to stop using it.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9447151)
 * > Removing such plugins will help to declutter the repository and provide better
   > user experience and smooth search navigation.
 * In your dashboard (not here), unless you explicitly put in the slug for a plugin
   then you will not see any plugin 2 years old or older.
 * On this site? It’s nothing to declutter. Sometimes people really do want to find
   that old plugin and old doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for them.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9449963)
 * Deleting plugins sounds like the harshest solution to cleaner results, perhaps
   you’d want a filter on your search instead.
 *  [autox420](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autox420/)
 * (@autox420)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9501558)
 * I use old plugins. Because they still work!
 *  [Glenn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/)
 * (@rglennnall)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9517654)
 * yes, but only the **very** ancient – i have Favorite plugins that haven’t been
   touched in two years.
 * **But there must be a way for we, the users (remember us?), to flag problem plugins
   as “unworking,” “contains virus,” etc. (considering the problem ya’ll just had
   4 times with such a plugin).**
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9598656)
 * > But there must be a way for we, the users (remember us?),
 * [@rglennnall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/), I should just
   clarify that moderators are not WordPress. We are real users as well and we just
   happen to help out on the forums.
 *  You’re confusing insecure plugins with old plugins. Insecure plugins do need
   to be dealt with and that is not the topic being discussed here.
 *  [Glenn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/)
 * (@rglennnall)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9598916)
 * the title of this topic is “Remove Ancient Plugins.”
 * I am trying – against the odds, obviously – to get my voice heard by WORDPRESS
   Plugin Repository developers – if you could please show me where this might be
   possible, I’d gladly remain quiet where it doesn’t do any good.
 *  [Glenn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/)
 * (@rglennnall)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9598943)
 * But there must be a way for we, the users (remember us?), to flag plugins – for
   our own benefit – as _doesn’t work_, _already tested_, etc…

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 * Last reply from: [Glenn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ancient-plugins/#post-9598943)
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