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wp-core-update-cleaner

WP Core Update Cleaner

This plugin automatically removes some files in the root folder, like wp-config-sample.php, readme and license files, when WordPress is manually or au …

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Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

37 / 67 rows with source links

55.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

30 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

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Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Stop Reinstalling Themes

Stop Reinstalling Themes: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Stop Reinstalling Themes Surely somewhere in the /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php there’s an option to disable the RE-installation of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Additional file to remove

Additional file to remove: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Additional file to remove I haven’t used this plugin yet, but can I suggest you remove wp-admin/install.php as well.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.3 automatic update

Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.3 automatic update: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
One site is using a translation (en_ca).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.2 automatic update

Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.2 automatic update: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
This plugin solves the problem of repeatedly performing the same basic actions, which is both annoying and time-consuming.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Great, could be Greater!

Great, could be Greater!: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Great, could be Greater!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Needs to remove one more file

Needs to remove one more file: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Needs one improvement for 5 out of 5: removal of wp-admin/install.php An added star if they gave it a UI with a customizable list of files and directories to remove.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Mostly Useful!

Mostly Useful!: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
It’s so annoying to have to remember to take these little steps every time WordPress core updates.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Excellent

Excellent: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Excellent It makes life much easier by doing it’s job perfectly.
neutral support · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates

Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates Well, some progress. I disabled automatic updates on a few of my sites after 4.2.3, and following today’s 4.2.4 update, I noticed that the readme file did not return on the sites I manually updated. It still returned on the sites that updated automatically. At least now we know where exactly t

Competitor Context

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WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version weak incumbent · intel 80.4 · weakness 71.0
weak incumbent
stale update history 20 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight rollback jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2
Advanced Automatic Updates weak incumbent · intel 77.1 · weakness 67.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
WP Login Timeout Settings praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 68.2
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature performance 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and compliance-sensitive marketing teams · Wedge: audit cookie consent state, tracking disclosures, cookie behavior, and compliance drift
source 1 source 2
WP Updates Settings praise owner · intel 66.5 · weakness 52.9
praise owner
stale update history 5 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
WP Sanitize File Name Plus praise owner · intel 62.1 · weakness 47.1
praise owner
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
Core Rollback praise owner · intel 61.8 · weakness 42.0
praise owner
6 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight rollback jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2
WP Excerpt Settings praise owner · intel 47.7 · weakness 37.3
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
Downgrade praise owner · intel 44.8 · weakness 38.5
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight rollback jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

9 shown from 9 collected
praise Excellent (5 stars) review · 2020-04-30T08:19:55+00:00 · medium severity · update

Excellent: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Excellent It makes life much easier by doing it’s job perfectly.
quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Great, could be Greater! (5 stars) review · 2016-06-02T01:08:12+00:00 · medium severity · update

Great, could be Greater!: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great, could be Greater!
compatibility setup quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
neutral Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates support · 2015-08-04T13:28:19+00:00 · medium severity · update

Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Readme file only removed on manual updates, not automatic updates Well, some progress. I disabled automatic updates on a few of my sites after 4.2.3, and following today’s 4.2.4 update, I noticed that the readme file did not return on the sites I manually updated. It still returned on the sites that updated automatically. At least now we know where exactly t
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.3 automatic update support · 2015-07-24T12:05:18+00:00 · medium severity · update

Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.3 automatic update: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: One site is using a translation (en_ca).
bugs support quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Stop Reinstalling Themes support · 2015-05-26T03:21:43+00:00 · medium severity · update

Stop Reinstalling Themes: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Stop Reinstalling Themes Surely somewhere in the /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php there’s an option to disable the RE-installation of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
compatibility missing feature setup easy hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.2 automatic update support · 2015-05-07T12:08:21+00:00 · medium severity · update

Didn't remove readme file after 4.2.2 automatic update: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This plugin solves the problem of repeatedly performing the same basic actions, which is both annoying and time-consuming.
bugs setup reliable value hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Mostly Useful! (4 stars) review · 2015-04-29T15:21:36+00:00 · medium severity · update

Mostly Useful!: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: It’s so annoying to have to remember to take these little steps every time WordPress core updates.
reliable value quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Needs to remove one more file (4 stars) review · 2015-04-29T00:15:31+00:00 · medium severity · update

Needs to remove one more file: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Needs one improvement for 5 out of 5: removal of wp-admin/install.php An added star if they gave it a UI with a customizable list of files and directories to remove.
compatibility setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Additional file to remove support · 2015-04-28T19:21:49+00:00 · medium severity · update

Additional file to remove: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Additional file to remove I haven’t used this plugin yet, but can I suggest you remove wp-admin/install.php as well.
compatibility setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin