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1. Indeedle
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I refer to my thread over here where I found one of my plugins kept adding a link to WordpressSupplies to my blogroll automatically.

   After searching my plugin code, I found this one does in fact check to see if their link is in your blogroll and then adds it. I saw no mention of this anywhere in the install page, if you're going to add links to my website I'd appreciate knowing about it.

   From what I can tell, themes and plugins from WordpressSupplies do this as well, so I'd be wary of using anything from there.

   Line #143 of auto-tagger.php contains the following code.
   

   if($wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(link_id) FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_url='http://wordpresssupplies.com/'")==0)
   wp_insert_link(array('link_name' => 'Wordpress Themes', 'link_url' => 'http://wordpresssupplies.com/', 'link_description' => 'Download Free Wordpress Themes and Plugins' ));

2. jleuze
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I tried out the WP Auto Tagger plugin, and it added a link to my blogroll as well...

3. copperblade
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Is there a way to report this developer's plugins? I really think this needs to be banned from WordPress site.

4. yasinakgun
   Member
   Posted 6 days ago #

   agreed

5. jdembowski
   Member
   Posted 6 days ago #

   Bizzare. The add link code is still there...

6. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 6 days ago #

   security at wordpress dot org
   seems to get attention

7. jdembowski
   Member
   Posted 5 days ago #

   That's good to know. I just sent them an e-mail on this, hopefully this will get resolved.

   (BTW I don't have a problem with plugin developers giving the users the option to add them to the blogroll. This plugin sneaks it in and that is not above board behavior.)

8. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 5 days ago #

   no disagreements here

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