Plugin that keeps deactivated plugins secure from hackers?
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Security pros say to uninstall plugins you’re not using because even if they are not active, they can be exploited by hackers / malware.
I have deactivated many plugins to improve performance (speed), but I’m reluctant to uninstall them, because (1) their databases / database tables / entries would be lost, (2) I might want to use them again and I don’t want to search thru and compare a bunch of different plugins again in the future.
I tried to find a plugin that keeps deactivated plugins safe from hackers (like a virtual firewall?). I found a plugin called Plugin Organizer, but it’s description* sounds unrelated to this.
* (1. Change the order that your plugins are loaded.
2. Selectively disable plugins by any post type or wordpress-managed URL.
3. Add groupings to the plugin admin age.)If I go thru FTP and create a new folder and move all deactivated plugins into it and then zip it (tar-gzip), will that keep them safe?
They would, unfortunately, I think, no longer appear in the wordpress plugin manager (right?), so I would need to open FTP to try to remember what plugins I had deactivated. Also, if I did reactivate them I would need to immediately manually update it in case older versions have become vulnerable to malware/hackers..
I can keep a database or spreadsheet with the names of the plugins and why I installed it and why I deactivated it.
If I delete the folder through FTP but don’t uninstall it, will the databases/tables/records remain available if I later re-download the plugin?
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