CUNY Academic Commons

Hm, it looks like the plugin has been abandoned by the author: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ui/

We can't outright remove it because it's in use by sites on the Commons, but we could certainly hide it so that it can no longer be activated on sites where it's not yet in use. All things being equal, I prefer to have fewer plugins available to users, especially plugins that are not actively seeing updates. On the other hand, I don't want to take useful functionality away from our users, especially if the plugin still works fine (which I haven't tested). Matt or Luke, do you have thoughts about policy here?

For reference: originally installed in #2107.

I think we should immediately disable it for new users.

If it still works and isn't dangerous, I think we can leave it but should probably check in on it at least once a year to ensure it is still okay. And I would say that if we can identify an alternative, we should let people using it know and urge them to migrate, saying that we may have to deactivate it in the future as it becomes further out of date.