Not sure

  • andrealves

    (@andrealves)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    After reading the Grant Norwood 1 star review, I was wondering if it’s safe to download this plugin or not.
    The moderation should let the plugin author reply and explain, so everybody like myself, who read it and it’s a bit confused, to trust on this. On the other hand, I believe if WP repository staff test this to let be here safer to everyone.

    An enlightening on this about WP staff would be nice.
    Thanks.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    8 years, 9 months ago

    On the other hand, I believe if WP repository staff test this to let be here safer to everyone.

    I’m sure the plugin has been tested before it was released into the WordPress.org plugin repository. All plugins have to go through review by the Plugin Review team before they’re available on WordPress.org.

    Thread Starter andrealves

    (@andrealves)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, I’ve installed anyway to give it a shot and will update the rating accordingly.
    Thanks

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    8 years, 9 months ago

    A review really isn’t the best place to talk about this but here goes.

    After reading the Grant Norwood 1 star review, I was wondering if it’s safe to download this plugin or not.

    @andrealves The plugins in the repository is safe to use though sometimes the author’s react poorly to comments and reviews.

    When a plugin does something out of bounds then users complain and that percolates to the plugins team to look.

    On the other hand, I believe if WP repository staff test this to let be here safer to everyone.

    They do not test plugins exactly. When a plugin is submitted then the code is examined and I believe that the plugin is installed. But there are a lot of plugins and there’s no practical way to QA and unit test all plugin submissions.

    Once a plugin is accepted then authors are permitted to make updates to their code without review. 99.999% of the time that’s fine. If an author updates a plugin with something that violates the plugin guidelines then that plugin is suspended from the repository and the author is given a chance to fix it.

    Once the fix is verified the plugin gets restored. If it happens repeatedly and the author doesn’t take the nice hint then the author and the plugins are banned for life.

    *Drinks coffee*

    Fortunately that doesn’t happen very often. 😉 The authors tend to be a reasonable group of people. I mean, they’re giving up their time to share and support a plugin so they already want to be good community members.

    Plugin Contributor slangji

    (@slangji)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    sLaNGjIs Team do not provide support on wordpress.org forum and reviews system!

    Dear user of plugins or themes:

    sLaNGjIs Team has started adventure on wordpress.org forum since 2007: 8 years ago!

    Everything was very different from today: the plugins and themes developed by us were much less, and also the users who used it.

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    Plugin Contributor slangji

    (@slangji)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    It is evident that the reviews are a very dangerous, difficult to control by the moderators, that reflects and identifies only spam.

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