ExtensionLifeCheck scans your installed WordPress plugins for abandonment risk — outdated, untested, or unmaintained — and suggests actively maintained alternatives from WordPress.org.
Read-only, privacy-friendly, and powered entirely by WordPress core APIs.
Reads your installed plugins with native WordPress functions only — nothing is changed, deactivated, or deleted.
Compares each plugin against the official WordPress.org API for last update, version gap, and compatibility.
Recommends one to three actively maintained WordPress.org replacements for plugins that need review.
Download a one-click CSV audit of your latest scan to share with clients or your team.
Three steps, entirely inside your wp-admin.
No tracking. No personal data. No front-end requests.
The plugin runs only inside wp-admin when an administrator starts a scan.
It connects solely to api.wordpress.org to read public plugin metadata.
Responses are cached in WordPress transients for 12 hours to limit external requests.
No personally identifiable information is ever sent. ExtensionLifeCheck does not add anything to the front end of your site and never modifies, deactivates, or removes plugins.
No. ExtensionLifeCheck is strictly read-only. It does not deactivate, update, delete, or modify any plugin.
Unknown usually means the plugin is not in the WordPress.org directory (premium, custom, or privately hosted) or that WordPress.org could not be reached during the scan.
It searches WordPress.org for closely related plugins, then filters for recent updates, current compatibility, and meaningful active install counts.
No. No visitor-facing requests are added. Scans run only in wp-admin and API responses are cached with transients.