Title: Version 3: Important plugin update
Last modified: March 21, 2024

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# Version 3: Important plugin update

 *  ResolvedPlugin Contributor [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-3-important-plugin-update/)
 * Hi everyone!
 * Last year I made the decision to put this plugin up for adoption, as I didn’t
   have time to continue developing it. Another developer took it over. They had
   a history of working with WordPress and seemed the right person to take this 
   work on.
 * However, after breaking the plugin guidelines, the plugin was suspended from 
   the repository and the developer took the decision to request the plugin was 
   closed and to walk away. Unfortunately, that leaves all users with an abandoned
   plugin, many of whom won’t even realise. Any security vulnerabilities would go
   un-patched and, consequently, put everyone at risk. Rather than allow that to
   happen, I worked with the Plugin review team to take the plugin back again.
 * What I don’t have the rights to, though, is the previous developers code changes.
   For that reason, we took the decision to reverse all the changes they made. Version
   3, now live, is therefore the last version I pushed out a few months ago. If 
   you want to retain the previous version, please don’t update – if you’ve done
   it already then, sorry, but the code isn’t available and there is nothing I can
   do. Moving forward is our only choice here, but it is the safest route.
 * If you have any questions, please let me know in the replies.
 * The plugin is up for adoption again but, next time, I’ll try and be more careful
   over who I pick to take the work on.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-3-important-plugin-update/)
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