[wp-forums] Heads up - Denis Hoppe

[Otto]

Our ever-changing set of internal guidelines currently reads thusly:

"Plugin should not hijack the blog admin. It is fine to include an
Upgrade prompt on the plugin admin page but not throughout the blog.
It is acceptable to embed a widget on the dashboard but this should be
the same size as others and be dismissable. It’s fine to put an error
message at the top of the admin for special cases, but it should be
linked to a way to fix the error and it should be infrequent. Any form
of “nagging” is absolutely prohibited."


-Otto



On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
> Is adding an RSS feed to the main dash considered advertising?
>
> (And I do see the hair-split between adding a link to the admin footer and 'Hey, you've not set me up!' ala Jetpack.)
>
> On 13 Nov 2011, at 2:58:38AM, Otto wrote:
>
>> We do exactly that. Advertising outside your own settings pages is
>> *not* allowed.
>>
>> Show me the plugins that do this, and I will remove them myself.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:48 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just like we remove plugins that add links to the front-end of user sites
>>> without permission, we should also remove those who add links to the entire
>>> admin area, instead of on their own settings page.
>>>
>>> Also, I understand that the plugin in question was removed at some point.
>>> How come it's back again?
>>>
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