[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #61251: Prevent Plugins adding warnings in the Site Health

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#61251: Prevent Plugins adding warnings in the Site Health
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 Reporter:  Marc4        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Site Health  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Changes (by peterwilsoncc):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi @Marc4 and thanks for the ticket.

 I agree that an upgrade to pro item is a questionable use of the Site
 Health screen. I couldn't agree more, in fact.

 However, I think that removing the filters that allow plugins to add items
 to the Site Health screen would create more problems than it would solve.
 There are more legitimate uses of the Site Health report for plugins than
 not. Some example I can think of are:

 * caching plugins warning that there is no redis/memcache server to
 connect to
 * SASS plugins reporting the need to connect to a service, ie Item one in
 your ticket
 * 2FA plugins warning that administrator level accounts do not have 2FA
 enabled

 Unfortunately WordPress has no way of detecting whether a site health item
 is useful or questionable in nature so I'm going to close this ticket as
 unplanned (wontfix).

 The WordPress plugin repository has guidelines on what plugins can and can
 not do. You may wish to open a ticket to discuss adding/clarifying
 policies around the use and abuse of the Site Health report. You can do
 that on [https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/issues the
 plugin guidelines issue tracker]

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