Mark Jaquith
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Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: 3.0 ProblemOne possibility is that your host is using something called mod_security. It has a configurable blacklist of phrases that can trigger strange issues like this.
Also, if you’re using a WP 3.0 version older than 3.0-RC1 (such as one of the betas), please update to 3.0-RC1 and test it again.
Also (2), if you have any 404 or redirection plugins enabled, try disabling those.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Excerpt Field disappearedI have a client that experiences this once every couple of weeks. He is a full-time blogger and is frequently logged in and active in the admin for an entire work day.
It is limited to him, and I think it goes away with a full browser reset.
I suspect that something is happening with the user settings cookie that is set in JavaScript. This may be getting corrupted in some way that WP thinks the user wants that field hidden.
If it happens again, I’m going to spend some real time looking into it. But maybe this info will help someone discover the cause.
If you experience the issue, Figure out a way to dump all of your cookies. DO NOT POST THE LOGIN OR ADMIN COOKIES, as that could give someone access to your site. We want the settings one.
Btw, why doesn’t WordPress search the entire plugins archive for “Powered by”. That might get rid of some of these plugins.
It’s tedious work. It often involves installing the plugin. We’re handling them as they’re reported. Hopefully awareness will spread, and more plugin authors will correct without getting a suspension or an e-mail from us!
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Plugin disappeared from WordPress pluginsKnxDT — Your plugin is injecting three SEO links into the widget’s public view by default. The first one, a credit link, using reasonable link text, would be fine if you made it not display by default. Our policy is that you make the user take an affirmative action (like checking a box/radio button) in order to enable a credits link.
You have two other links, also embedded by default, that link to blog articles on your site. They appear to have no relevance to the plugin.
In order to get your plugin approved, at a minimum, you will have to remove these two irrelevant SEO links and make the credits link default to not being displayed.
krisjay — Your plugin has some security issues. You’re echoing out options without sanitization. You need to look into the
esc_attr()andesc_html()functions. You may need to do manual regex filtering for the things that are CSS colors (# sign, then 3-6 digits of a-f0-9). As far as other issues go, I wasn’t able to find anything. You’re using appropriate licenses and aren’t outputting SEO links or front-end credit links without permission. Please contact plugins@wordpress.org and ask for clarification.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Quiz] The question / post does not workVersion 1.2 fixes this, as well as some security issues.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Quiz] The question / post does not workI have a patched version here:
— Link removed. Download version 1.2 —
Beware that if you have previously installed the plugin, you’ll have to update any plugin options or questions that have quotes in them. The original plugin stored data in a slashed format — I have changed it to store it in normal unslashed format.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Issues regarding my profile in wordpress.orgI’m discussing this issue with aldenml in private.
Am discussing this issue privately with aldenml.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Page Links To redirect page not assigned current_page_itemVersion 2.3 fixes this issue. My test case was assigning a category URL. It got the correct highlighting class. I just pushed 2.3 out, and it should be available in 15-30 minutes.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Page Links To] Got error msg after upgraded to 2.2Really sorry about this, everyone. Version 2.3 fixes the bug and restores menu highlighting! I just pushed it out, and it should be available for download in 15-30 minutes.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Page Links To redirect page not assigned current_page_itemDo you still experience this with version 2.2?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Page Links To Plug in – does not open new browser windowPlease try version 2.2, which should fix this issue!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WordPress phone home privacy issues. Why is it there?I want to know what they do with the data
We use it to see plugin/theme popularity, track adoption rates of new WP versions, and get a feel for the platforms that people run WP on. For instance, knowing how many people run PHP 4 is very helpful in deciding whether or not to drop support for it.
why they refuse to make it non identifiable.
A URL is a standardized, globally unique, verifiable identifier for a WordPress site. It is not disclosed, per the privacy policy. Indeed, our tool for viewing this statistical data has only numbers and percentages — for instance, the number of people running MySQL 4 vs MySQL 5, or the number of active installs of a particular plugin. We don’t have a “see what site X is running” tool. The purpose is to make better decisions about WordPress development by looking at the aggregate data.
If you’re uncomfortable with this, there are plugins available to obfuscate the URL you send (though obviously it cannot obfuscate the IP address your server sends, unless you’re willing to turn off update notifications altogether).
Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: How do I edit the category panel on the admin page?I looked into this myself at one point. I discovered that it would be non-trivial to implement. 🙁
But, you’ve inspired me to do something about it. I’ve opened a ticket and I’ll be looking at this issue for WordPress version 3.0
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Adding rewrite rules and $wp_rewrite->flush_rules()This is a bug in the way we store
rewrite_rulesin “transients” instead of options like we used to. I think our fix for WP 2.9 is going to be to revert to the old method.http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10981
In more detail, people using transient object cache backends like Memcache or APC can expect their
rewrite_rulestransient to… well… transit (go away). When this happens, WP dutifully regenerates the rules, but it does so before any plugin would have added its endpoint (and indeed there wasn’t an appropriate hook for the plugin to add it such that WP would be aware of it in this case). So the rules get saved without your endpoint changes. This will be fixed for WP 2.9!