[wp-forums] Interesting reading material re "Blacklisted Plugins"

[Jan Dembowski]

That's a good read too. I think what irks me is the use of the "security
risks" label. My respect for them would increase had they said "This
plugins have cause us grief. We don't know why. We're disallowing them." ;)


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Stephen Edgar <stephen at netweb.com.au>wrote:

> This was a good read from Joshua Strebel of Pagely
>
>
> http://saint-rebel.com/2014/01/17/godaddy-bans-wordpress-plugins-and-has-no-idea-why/
>
> (It looks like the list has been amended since Joshua's post also)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephen Edgar
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
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> Plugins"
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> The fact that they have Hello Dolly on that list goes a long way to
> explaining it I think..
>
> It seems most of them are things that they've had create publically
> accessible files with sensitive data, or things that are just not
> compatible with their managed environment (or clash with one of their
> provided plugins)
>
>
> On 27 February 2014 22:26, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I came across this link in a post today.
> >
> >
> > http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8964/managed-wordpress-blackli
> > sted-plugins
> >
> > I get why a managed WordPress service would have plugins that are not
> > allowed for various reasons but I think it's a stretch to label them
> > all security risks.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jan Dembowski
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