Plugin Enforcement & Monitoring Enhancements

Version 1.4.2 / Security & Compliance

Overview
Expanded plugin integrity and monitoring systems across all WordPress environments.
This update finalizes the integration between the Hostbotica Plugin Audit and Plugin Blocklist MU-plugins, ensuring that all plugin actions are both traceable and compliant with Hostbotica’s security policies.

Highlights

  • Blocklist Enforcement Improvements
    Prevents disallowed plugins from activating and displays contextual in-dashboard notices for site administrators.
  • Integrated Plugin Audit Awareness
    Plugin Audit now automatically ignores events for blocked plugins, eliminating false activation alerts.
  • Optimized Event Timing
    Moved detection and enforcement hooks to init and admin_init, ensuring complete accuracy in plugin state detection during load.
  • Domain-Tagged Email Reports
    All audit and blocklist emails now include the site domain in the subject line for quick identification across environments.
  • Plaintext Email Standardization
    Unified all outgoing audit messages under a clean, structured plaintext format with timestamps, site identifiers, and actor details.

Notes
These updates strengthen Hostbotica’s WordPress governance model, ensuring consistency between automated compliance systems and administrative visibility.