Is it good practice to remove all of the plugins and themes that are redundant? Also, if so, why is it good practise to remove them?
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To add to Mark's answer, often a plugin developer releases an update when a security hole has been found and fixed. If you don't update or remove these plugins, hackers will try and exploit this.– TomCCommented Apr 27, 2017 at 14:45
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Always remove any code you do not use which is easy to remove, like unused plugins and themes. Too many times even an unused code proved to be a vector through which sites were hacked.
answered Apr 27, 2017 at 10:26
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1Time to delete all those harmful inactive twenty-something themes. ;-)– Christine Cooper ♦Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 13:31
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@Mark Kaplun, may I ask you to have a look at a custom field related question here : wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/265852/… / Commented May 4, 2017 at 19:54