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# MattyX

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Hupso Social Media Share Buttons] Out of order?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/out-of-order-1/)
 *  [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/out-of-order-1/page/2/#post-4292419)
 * As I wrote in another thread today, and as others say here – hupso.com being 
   down, almost means our sites being down. And I guess it’s a quite legitimate 
   reason to move away from this plugin. I like it otherwise, but I can’t be dependent
   on some other website to be up for mine to work properly, it’s the main reason
   I picked Hupso’s buttons to start with – because they are (usually) way faster
   than other services who force your site to make a dozen nonsense requests upon
   load.
 * So, yes – at least make it load totally asynchronously, or to even load without
   your site at all if it’s down.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Hupso Social Media Share Buttons] Hide buttons on frontpage/excerpts – no success](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-buttons-on-frontpageexcerpts-no-success/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-buttons-on-frontpageexcerpts-no-success/#post-4148270)
 * I can report that I managed to “hard code” the <?php echo do_shortcode( ‘[hupso]’);?
   > string into posts and portfolio. So it seems to work like I want it now. In
   any case, I would still be *very* glad if you could solve this problem. It seems
   to be very common with share plugins. I only had AddThis working earlier, but
   it’s incredibly effective at slowing down your site, so I am glad to get rid 
   of it.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [All these brute force attempts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/#post-3911682)
 * **webeminence:** Nope, a “self hosted” site. What made you think so? I’ve never
   tried password protecting the login, but it’s a feeling I have, that it wouldn’t
   work with the app.
    In plain text, I am really fed up with having to “tweak” 
   everything everywhere, all the time (just as if I had all the time in the world
   to spend on these boring matters). Most often just because the Open Source developers
   who’s mercy I/we are under, “thinks” something about everything. “Nah, we don’t
   like that. We don’t do security by obscuring things, we like to have you do twenty
   different tweaks, and install twelve different plugins to make it work properly”.
   😉
 * **esmi:** Yeah, I have no user id1, no admin (or vastly similar) username and
   +10 letter “secure password”. So there’s not even a chance in a million plain
   bruteforce would work, perhaps not even billion.
 * I do have this way to rename login etc. through “Better WP Security”, but haven’t
   tried it since I read all about these plugins that will conflict with it. So 
   my question is, why don’t future WordPress come with that feature directly in
   the installation/setup? Instead of all these plugin/.htaccess tweak/external 
   blacklist inclusion stuff. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [All these brute force attempts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/#post-3911679)
 * Guess the WordPress App wouldn’t wotk with password protecting the login(?). 
   As I often spend like several days without actual access to a real computer, 
   and seldom my own computer, I do need it.
 * But in any case, I guess you can(‘t?) see the logic here. There would be no need
   for all these “Why don’t you just” – and all these suggestions, mostly regarding.
   htaccess. Why not just change the login-URL and/or rename wp-login.php, and problem
   is solved? Why would that be such a terrible thing to do? There are other platforms
   where you do, some even require that you do.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [All these brute force attempts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-these-brute-force-attempts/#post-3911673)
 * In exactly what way is is “beneficial” to keep it the way it is, seriously? If
   you have a tank, instead of trying to reinforce it with all sorts of non-conventional
   materials and procedures, why not take it out of sight and thus out of line of
   fire?
 * Is there some sort of purpose in itself to keep the current login setup as it
   is? What would be “worse” about WordPress if the login path wasn’t known? That’s
   not a sarcastic question, it’s all seriously meant.
 * To the rest of your answer:
 * 1. They are doing nothing.
    2. I have already implemented the suggestions that
   are convenient for me to use. 3. So it’s less an “obscurity” to be dependent 
   on an external _“flexible blacklist that checks all URI requests against a series
   of carefully constructed HTAccess directives”_, than to eliminate the main possibility
   to even perform these kinds of attacks? Sounds more like modern medicine “Oh 
   he’s sick, give him these pills! To cover the symptoms!” instead of removing 
   what makes someone sick.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WordPress Follow Buttons Plugin – AddThis] twitter follow not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-follow-not-working/)
 *  [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-follow-not-working/#post-3413526)
 * Seems to be some sort of OS conflict. Hovering the URL always shows this /# thing.
   Using an old computer with Win XP right now, where it doesn’t work in either 
   Firefox or Explorer. Then tried a newer one here + my phone, and both of those
   works. Just so you know.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WordPress Follow Buttons Plugin – AddThis] twitter follow not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-follow-not-working/)
 *  [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-follow-not-working/#post-3413525)
 * Having that problem. If I set it through the Addthis settings, there’s no Twitter
   icon at all. If I set it through the widget itself, there’s this /# link.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WordPress Share Buttons Plugin – AddThis] Custom service list?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-service-list/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-service-list/#post-3562747)
 * I might share with you, that I got to know that “this function is currently disabled”,
   but it will be re-enabled again in some update.
 * It took me quite some efforts to squeeze that out of one of their guys. It’s 
   not like I’ll send their office anthrax spores due to this, I was just glad to
   get to know. I wonder why people just can’t be straight with you, and prevent
   you from wasting time and energy trying to solve something which can’t be solved?
 * So, expecting it to be solved in some future update. Not much more to say, I 
   just wished they could be more open about such things instead of ignoring questions
   or “beating around the bush” with all sorts of weird pseudo-support questions
   and excuses.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WordPress Share Buttons Plugin – AddThis] Custom service list?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-service-list/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-service-list/#post-3562610)
 * It wasn’t more complicated than the shortcodes at your page, separated by commas
   like: facebook_like,twitter,tumblr and some more. Nothing changes.
 * I’ll drop you a mail.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: ["Website required" in comments?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-required-in-comments/)
 *  Thread Starter [MattyX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyx/)
 * (@mattyx)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-required-in-comments/#post-3459254)
 * I might add, I just set the parameter to “optional” instead of required, and 
   deleted the whole asterisk input line of code. But out of pure curiosity, this
   isn’t standard wordpress stuff, is it?

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