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WARNING

Discouraged

Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged

Affected Plugins

14

On this page

Total Issues

125

Instances found

Total Impact

4M

Active installations

Activity Trend

Last 30 days

Peak: 101

Examples

Real messages found in scanned plugins

The use of function ini_set() is discouraged

The use of function set_time_limit() is discouraged

Affected Plugins

Plugins that have instances of this rule violation

UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin

Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More

Discouraged — Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged | Rule Analytics | PluginScore

WP STAGING WordPress Backup Plugin – Migration Backup Restore

wp-staging

7

issues

100K

installs

Migrate Guru – Site Migration & Cloning

Backup Migration

backup-backup

Update URLs – Quick and Easy way to search old links and replace them with new links in WordPress

DreamHost Automated Migration

dreamhost-automated-migration

Cloudways WordPress Migrator

bv-cloudways-automated-migration

FG Joomla to WordPress

fg-joomla-to-wordpress

Bluehost Site Migrator

bluehost-site-migrator

FastDup – Fastest WordPress Migration & Duplicator

S2W – Import Shopify to WooCommerce

import-shopify-to-woocommerce

Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin

everest-backup