Displaying 1 To 30 Of 68 Comments New Company Releases Evil WordPress Plugin @Rob Lawrence – Yes and no. We review all plugins as they are submitted, but we don’t do ongoing approvals for releases. If a plugin is insecure (like that text only password is readable to anyone via XSS or other methods while not being logged in as a permitted user) then we reject them. If you find a plugin like that, or one that breaks the guidelines for the WPORG repo, you should email plugins AT WordPress.org with the details. Link to the plugin, tell us exactly where the problem is, etc :) » Posted By Ipstenu On May 9, 2013 @ 9:52 AM @Dave – Speaking as one who wrote a RickRoll plugin, and who writes evil plugins for both practice and for training, there actually are a lot of legitimate uses for plugins like this. Boredom is a factor, so is “I wonder if…” (Legitimate uses does not include ‘Using this on my real website.’) » Posted By Ipstenu On May 8, 2013 @ 7:39 PM Three Plugins To Monitor Site Uptime WordPress uses Watchmouse I think. They did before Watchmouse got bought out by CA at least (we use it at work and I remember seeing WP on their ‘people who use us!’ page and snickering). » Posted By Ipstenu On July 1, 2012 @ 11:42 AM While giving this method of searching the Codex a try, I found it difficult to find the Conditional Statements page I was looking for that was easily displayed by the Google Custom Search box. That’s because the Wiki built in search is very exact. It looks for the page name, then the words close together, and as you may have noticed, the page name is ‘Conditional TAGS’ not statements. And the term “Conditional Statements” isn’t anywhere on the page. You’d have to add it for the wiki search to get it. Of course, the real answer is ‘Google’s better at search than anyone else’ ;) » Posted By Ipstenu On May 16, 2012 @ 9:44 AM The Biggest Challenge For WordPress? The problem is that most of the plugins are a hobby for the developer. Therefore, they do not have the time or money to support it entirely. @David – Alas, that annoys the hell of out me. If you make a plugin and release it on the repository, users have a reasonable assumption that you will: Unless you say otherwise, congratulations! You’re supporting a plugin! Hobby or not, you have responsibilities. » Posted By Ipstenu On April 18, 2012 @ 3:07 PM What Dev4Press Thinks WordPress Needs Psssst. That’s Dev4Press. Not DevPress. They’re not the same. » Posted By Ipstenu On April 16, 2012 @ 10:14 AM New Ebook Released For WP Multisite Otto got what I meant. It’s not that code can’t be CC, or that text can’t, but you’re not getting any benefit from having text be GPL. Basically I got a dummy telling me ‘You put your ebook out in CC! That’s against GPL! You can’t do that!’ and, frankly, that’s poppycock. If there’d been any code, I would have specified that the code was GPL2 or later. As there was no code, the text was CC. IIRC, so is the codex and WordPress.com (I asked Matt in passing once). » Posted By Ipstenu On April 3, 2012 @ 10:02 PM Ah April, how I hate your first day. » Posted By Ipstenu On April 2, 2012 @ 2:00 PM Good Or Bad? Infinite Scrolling What @otto said. Often I hit ‘end’ to see the end of a page where the footer links should be, and the expected ‘about/contact/I’m a dink’ links are. Pisses me off when it’s not there. TWITTER. But. For Twitter? Okay, yeah. Similiarly FB. I can see if working well on a P2 blog. But not for everyone. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 30, 2012 @ 12:14 PM WordPress Not The Direct Cause Of Mass Site Attacks With WordPress providing the SQL login and password in plain text in its wp-congfig.php is it any wonder why so many WordPress sites get hacked and WordPress gets the reputation for being difficult to impossible to make secure? So does Drupal, Joomla, MovableType, ZenPhoto, MEdiawiki… Shall I go on? Not the point. I have no idea where on earth this reputation for WordPress storing DB details in clear text comes from. Ryan, it stems from the wp-config.php having the SQL user ID, password and DB name in it. That’s all. Which … well. Yes. You have to have those to get into the DB. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 12, 2012 @ 4:27 PM Go Black With The SOPA Blackout Plugin 307 headers aren’t as ‘friendly’ as 503s (which is what GOOGLE recommends you use today). » Posted By Ipstenu On January 18, 2012 @ 10:51 AM Some Orgnizations And WordPress Just Don’t Mix @Andreas Nurbo – You yourself said this: If the leaders in WP don’t go out and tries to mitigate this damaging behavior my hope for the leadership is over. So why are you turning around and pissing on an offer to attempt to do what they can? Your anger against Matt and the WP ‘leaders’ aside, people do things in the name of passion that are crazypants. They’ll use anything as an excuse, and that they’re using WP today doesn’t mean they won’t use Starbucks tomorrow. That doesn’t make either WP or Starbucks culpable for those actions any more than it’s Jodie Foster’s fault a nut with a gun shot Regan. Crazy is crazy. If you’re not willing to report a problem to the ‘authorities’ (and pardon me for using that word at all, it’s not right, but I’m sure you know what I mean), then you’re not helping make anything better for anyone and just ranting to the wind. Which, if that’s what you want carry on :) » Posted By Ipstenu On January 15, 2012 @ 5:30 PM @Emil (and @Andreas Nurbo) – I think the point is ‘We’re not the boss of WP so we’re at their behest.’ Which … Okay, so what? You’re not the boss of Microsoft, Linux or Apple, but you use their products. You sure don’t direct their designs. Heck, my office is a MAJOR power user for a product (we’re the flagship example) and we still argue with the vendor all the time because they don’t want to do something we need. (I back the vendor in that fully, by the way – we are not the boss of them, and they should be able to decide what they support.) That you can customize them to suit your needs is a selling point, most of the time. » Posted By Ipstenu On January 12, 2012 @ 10:59 AM Plugins can only work, in ‘toy’ cases. @Ted Clayton – Wow. I’ve never actually seen a comment before that I disagreed with 100%. Toy cases? WordPress can’t run the number of plugins? That’s entirely incorrect. The amazeballs part of WP is that WordPress lets you run (pretty much) any combination of plugins you want. Forums, ecommerce, off-site comments, auto-tweet, whatever. And to the people who need those features, those are certainly not ‘toy’ cases. » Posted By Ipstenu On January 10, 2012 @ 11:57 AM Master List Of Issues With WordPress 3.3 Thanks Jeff :) I do want to stress that I had a lot of help making that! The forums (alpha/beta folks), mailing lists, twitter and G+ all chipped in. And anyone with Mod powers on the forums has access to (and should!) edit that if they find more issues and fixes. Community Document. The only reason it’s a closed post is ever time I leave it open, people try to put their support posts/complaints in there, making it impossible to use. » Posted By Ipstenu On December 15, 2011 @ 2:48 PM @Jonathan – For what it’s worth, Jane’s said before that ‘per page’ widgets need love. I kicked that around a few times, but there isn’t (to me) a clear way to handle it that’s obvious for all users. » Posted By Ipstenu On December 7, 2011 @ 4:09 PM Links To Commercial Solutions On The Codex You don’t actually get link juice (in the SEO sense) from a wiki, you know. They’re all nofollow. » Posted By Ipstenu On November 9, 2011 @ 3:36 PM Checklist Of Things To Do Before Switching Themes @Chip Bennett – Where do CPTs fall in? ;) » Posted By Ipstenu On October 24, 2011 @ 1:58 PM How To Insert Links Inside Of Image Captions In the efforts of full disclosure, I’m the one who moved it to ‘Good idea, we’re working on it’ based on the related trac ticket being accepted as ‘Yeah, good point!’ As the patch was added 3 weeks ago, it won’t make it into 3.3 for sure. I like Kaspar’s fix too, and with that in mind, I’m cross-referencing that to trac! » Posted By Ipstenu On October 18, 2011 @ 10:24 AM I can understand the confusion, but I don’t get why people don’t just ask. We’re all ‘presuming’ and ‘assuming’ and from what I can see, a lot of people don’t just ping WordCamp Central and ask “Can I use WordCamp Scotland?” Who knows, maybe you could persuade them to allow smaller nations to use regional names. “WordCamp Ontario” and “WordCamp Ohio” wouldn’t make much sense in the US and Canada, but “WordCamp Scotland” certainly would. Then you’d only need to branch out into city name if more than one Scotland event took place. We can’t all be expected to know everything about WordCamps, and that there are guidelines instead of rules implies that you’re permitted (if not encouraged) to ask for clarifications, exceptions and explanations. If you don’t hear it from the horse’s mouth, it’s always okay to ask for clarification. I’m pro WordUp – Not everything needs to be a WordCamp, and diversity is good. » Posted By Ipstenu On September 19, 2011 @ 12:00 PM WordPress Mentioned On TheGuild The jokes make more sense if you watch the episodes leading up to it. This one was very light on MMORPG jokes and more meme cultureitis. The shoutouts of actors we know and love who’ve become less popular, or ones we love to hate (Starbuck 1.0 was in one), combined with geek icons like Eliza Dushku (who was in Dollhouse with Felicia Day) and Grant Imahara, and it’s just a nerdsplosion of joy for some of us. (I don’t play MMORPGs anymore, but thems my peeps. Last week Neal Gaiman!!) » Posted By Ipstenu On September 16, 2011 @ 5:31 PM Should Automatic Upgrades Be Opt-In? I don’t think auto opted out for extant installs would help the matter at all. If automatic updates is a must, then make sure a lot of people try the update safely on actual production sites before pushing the update out to everyone else… Y’know… we do. A lot of us do (I’m running SVN on ipstenu.org right now, and usually do a cron job to svn up every night – I haz crazy). It’s never enough, it will never be enough. It’s absolutely mathematically impossible for the beta brigade to test every possible scenario with every possible plugin, server version, PHP version, SQL version, and fancy snowflake that is your install. But let me spin this out: WP 3.4 (the first auto-upgradable version) is pushed and we all jump on board. Oh wait, there’s a bug. People scream in angor and raaaaaage! WordPress sucks! It’s terrible, why are you all dillholes? Someone makes a trac ticket. Otto and Nacin fix it. Magically your site is fixed without you having to do anything. Why … it’s just like the hotfix plugin, only I didn’t have to do anything! » Posted By Ipstenu On September 8, 2011 @ 9:01 PM Now that we’re this deep in, I think opt-out should be managed via the wp-config.php file. Decisions, not Options, is one of the WP credos, right? Done. That would keep it out of the hands of people who don’t need to know any different. (Otto, I actually notice the Chrome updates a lot more with Lion, which doesn’t ever actually shut DOWN Chrome when you close it. So I have to remember to check for updates and have Chrome tell me ‘Hey, you haven’t restarted in a while….’ which is an interesting ‘bug’ Chrome needs to address ;) ) » Posted By Ipstenu On September 8, 2011 @ 3:55 PM I voted no because they should be opt OUT. I’m smart enough to do it myself. I’ve got a complex site. But my dad? Hell, I’d leave it on auto update and check in once a month to make sure it’s okay. » Posted By Ipstenu On September 8, 2011 @ 10:53 AM Blogger Refresh Looks A Little Familiar Their comment system still sucks. They can make the back end look as pretty as they want. Their comments are a pain, their layouts are a pain, and it’s not as flexible as even the free wordpress.com set up. » Posted By Ipstenu On September 5, 2011 @ 5:17 PM The WordPress Learning Curve – How Steep Or Shallow Is It? @Jim W – Yes and no. :) It’s like going from pick up football games in your back yard to the ones at summer camp. It’s similar, but the rules and terms are different. “What do you mean you don’t know what a Jimmy Slot Back on Five means? Everyone knows that!” » Posted By Ipstenu On September 2, 2011 @ 9:18 AM I wonder if our learning curves are skewed because of the lowered bar, these days. I know I started with HTML, then SHTML, then PHP and CSS and MovableType and PHPNuke and WordPress (in pretty much that order). But it was a gradual climb. Today people can just start with WordPress/Drupal/Joomla/Whatever via 1-click installers. They don’t learn FTP or SSH because they don’t have to. And because of all that, some things are far harder than ‘we’ feel they should be. We make it too easy and not easy enough. » Posted By Ipstenu On September 1, 2011 @ 9:06 AM What’s The Quickest Way To End A Conversation About WordPress? So if you want to improve the project, in a no code way, just keep your mouth shut, they don’t like critique. Yeah, that pisses me off. Contributing ideas is just as important as contributing the actual code. Sometimes someone with no idea of the complexity (or lack there of) to the code has the best ideas. » Posted By Ipstenu On August 30, 2011 @ 2:57 PM Same as Christine and Nicolas – Most of the new stuff is stuff I’ve wanted, or used plugins to punch around. While I did write a disabler plugin, I don’t actually use it myself. It was more an experiment in coding. » Posted By Ipstenu On April 22, 2011 @ 5:02 PM Please Adopt This Plugin – Comment Quicktags Reloaded I’ve been using Comment Form Quicktags since 3.0 and it works rather well. It has fewer conflicts with other plugins, too. Like BuddyPress. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 22, 2011 @ 7:29 PMComments Posted By Ipstenu
1) Update it
2) Patch it
3) Support it/** Turn off Auto Upgrade **/
define('WP_AUTO_UPGRADE', false);
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