A balance between CP's past and its future

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we literally barely can manage to maintain current v1. Issues get filed and get solved not days, or weeks or months later, but years later.

Yes, this is an important point. For example, I still have a problem with these sort of claims being made…

Improved Security

ClassicPress has a “security first” approach.

when a major security problem still exists. Shouldn’t fixing this take priority over any fancy new features?

WP 5+ plugin updates and security concern

Yes, once a plugin moves to WP5+ you stop getting updates (including any security updates). I wonder how many CP users think their plugins are up to date when they are actually way behind. If this is the case, then for me it just confirms that using WP Plugins on CP is not a good idea and we should even more proactively advise people to not do it. I have already updated our DOCs where we suggested to use WP Plugins, but I think we need to go further and remove the Plugin area/move it to our a…