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Patch Gap – Update Coverage & Expired License Auditor

Name: Patch Gap – Update Coverage & Expired License Auditor
Author: Luke W

Find the plugins and themes nothing is updating: expired licenses, missing update sources, and premium plugins that silently stopped patching.

Patch Gap ranks #66,923 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #1,352 of 1,518 in the Performance category, and was last updated Aug 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.0.2 Current Version v1.0.2

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 28 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0.2
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Luke W

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Patch Gap – Update Coverage & Expired License Auditor

Because WordPress cannot tell the difference between "this plugin has no update available" and "nothing will ever offer this plugin an update again". Both look like silence. Patch Gap distinguishes them by asking who is responsible for each component, rather than is there an update right now.

It will list them, but it will not treat them as a problem. Custom code with no updater and no licence is classified as "bespoke" — informational only. Patch Gap only raises a gap when a component was clearly built to receive vendor updates and then didn't register one.

No. It never asks for, stores, or transmits a licence key. It reads whatever licence status your plugins already saved locally, and — more importantly — it detects silent updaters even when no licence information exists at all.

It is strictly read-only: it never changes, updates, deactivates, or rolls back any plugin, theme, or setting, so there is nothing it can change that could break. A scan only triggers the same update check WordPress itself runs on a schedule.

No. The audit runs on your own server, and licence information never leaves your site. The only outbound requests are listed under "External services": WordPress.org's public plugin API (plugin slugs only), and — only when you click them — the Freemius screens that power the optional paid upgrade.

It reads WordPress's own update transient (the same list your dashboard uses) to see which components a source is actually updating, and — for components that are updating nothing — it does a read-only scan of their code for the fingerprints of the common updater/licensing libraries (EDD Software Licensing, Plugin Update Checker, Freemius, WooCommerce API Manager, and hand-rolled update-transient hooks). A component that ships one of those libraries was built to receive vendor updates, so if nothing is updating it, its licence has almost certainly lapsed. Those fingerprints are stored as plain reference data in data/updater-signatures.json. Patch Gap ships no updater of its own and never serves or installs updates — it only reads and reports.

No — it fills a hole they leave. Wordfence's own documentation states it does not version-check plugins outside the WordPress.org repository. Fleet tools show updates that vendors offer; if a vendor's updater is silent, they show nothing. Patch Gap is the piece that notices the silence.

Everything the plugin created: its findings table, settings, cached lookups, and scheduled task. Deactivating (without uninstalling) keeps your findings and dismissal notes.