Unexplained Codex Changes

Those were made and announced months ago on wpdevl.wordpress.com and the developer mailing lists.

Authors are still listed in the bottom.

“wpdevl.wordpress.com” is not a valid URL.

Sorry, https://wpdevel.wordpress.com/ I ALWAYS miss that second e for some reason >.<

The various changes to the plugin compatibility pages on the Codex specifically were discussed on the docs mailing list, also. (This happened a long time ago.)

I do appreciate that you’ve each taken a moment to respond. What it leaves me wondering is how is anyone to know if a plugin was removed because it was harmful or [I can’t quite find a word I want here but it would mean that the plugin author was taking information from the blog where it was installed]. I know it’s a little extra work but it might help some of us if there were a log for removed plugins with withdrawal status (like, withdrawn by author, withdrawn by repository manager, etc.). And having Codex changes circulated by a mailing list means only people who now about that mailing list and are on it would know about it.

Why would that information be needed? Surely that’s between www.remarpro.com and the plugin’s developer?

If you are a plugin developer it is more or less expected that you read these things.

With regard to deleted plugins, feel free to email [email protected] and ask them for a list, but I know not what records they keep of these things. But you’d probably be better off askinh about a specific plugin, rather than a generalisation.

I know that some plugins have been removed because of harmful code and some others because they were commercial.

ESMI: By the time the plugin is removed, how many instances have been downloaded?

And? There is no warranty on the part of www.remarpro.com with regard to 3rd party plugins. This is the same with any open source project.