by
Decodeinfy
1 (1 reviews)
OwnerTrail - File Integrity Checker, SEO Spam & Malware Scanner
File integrity checker and malware scanner: catches SEO spam shown only to Google, and holds a plugin's updates free when it changes owner.
OwnerTrail ranks #70,346 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,854 of 5,058 in the Security category, a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.3.7
Current Version v1.3.7
Updated 1 week ago
Last Update on 28 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago
Last Refreshed on
#2,854 of 5,058 in Security
Downloads -25.3% this week
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- Version
- 1.3.7
- Last Updated
- Oct 28, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.2+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Decodeinfy
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about OwnerTrail - File Integrity Checker, SEO Spam & Malware Scanner
OwnerTrail locks them on activation (see Code lock). A site owner can unlock them for an hour on OwnerTrail > Code, or deactivate OwnerTrail to remove every lock. I can no longer install plugins from the admin. "Only allow code changes over FTP" is on. A site owner can unlock for an hour on OwnerTrail > Code, or choose "Lock only the editors" to allow installs again.
Manually: open the plugin's page on WordPress.org and read the listed author and the contributor list, then open its Development tab and read the SVN log to see which usernames have committed. Compare that against what you recorded last time. There is no notification when any of it changes, which is the gap this plugin fills - it takes that snapshot for every plugin you have installed, re-reads it daily, and tells you only when something differs.
The listed author changes, or contributors are added and removed, or an unfamiliar username starts committing. Any of those can be legitimate - plugins are sold and maintainers hand over all the time. The problem is that none of them are announced, so you find out months later or not at all.
They detect known vulnerabilities and malware signatures, which means something harmful has already been written and catalogued. This detects the trust-boundary event - an ownership transfer, a new committer - that usually comes first. Different layer, different failure mode. Run both.
No. Most ownership changes are entirely legitimate. The point is that you get to look, decide, and acknowledge, instead of finding out later.
Scanning runs on a background schedule, ten plugins at a time by default, and never on a front-end page load. Nothing runs for your visitors.
Plugins distributed outside wordpress.org have no public commit history, so ownership changes cannot be detected. Showing that honestly is more useful than showing a passing grade that means nothing. WP-Cron does not run reliably on my site. Use the Scan now button, or set up a real server cron calling wp-cron.php. The Settings screen shows when the last full scan completed.
Uninstalling cleans up the current site only: its stored plugin state, events, and settings. On a network with per-site activation, other subsites' OwnerTrail data is left behind.
