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WARNING

Discouraged

Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged

Affected Plugins

27

On this page

Total Issues

129

Instances found

Total Impact

17M

Active installations

Activity Trend

Last 30 days

Peak: 68

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

LiteSpeed Cache

litespeed-cache

Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

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

ManageWP Worker

worker

8

issues

1M

installs

wp-super-cache

Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin

sg-cachepress

Breeze – WordPress Cache Plugin

Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

jetpack-boost

Query Monitor – The developer tools panel for WordPress

query-monitor

NitroPack – Caching & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JS, Lazy load Images and CDN

page-optimize

Seraphinite Accelerator

seraphinite-accelerator

Clearfy Cache – WordPress optimization plugin, Minify HTML, CSS & JS, Defer

Index WP MySQL For Speed

index-wp-mysql-for-speed

WP YouTube Lyte

wp-youtube-lyte

Docket Cache – Object Cache Accelerator

Insights from Google PageSpeed

google-pagespeed-insights

WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization

wp-compress-image-optimizer

SNS Count Cache

sns-count-cache

Code Profiler – WordPress Performance Profiling and Debugging Made Easy

code-profiler

Swift Performance Lite

swift-performance-lite

PageSpeed Ninja – Cache, Minify, Defer CSS JavaScript, Critical CSS, Optimize Images, Convert WebP

psn-pagespeed-ninja

WP Speed of Light

wp-speed-of-light

FlyWP Helper – Page Cache, Page Optimization, Emails for FlyWP Server Control Panel