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

[Mika Epstein]

Speaking as someone working at a managed WP host, we also request you not use some of those, but for reasons of redundancy and/or conflicts. Hello Dolly doesn't make much sense to me, but I know GoDaddy has a totally different set up than we do at DreamHost, or even WP Engine does.

(Why doesn't wpcom have Hello Dolly built in...?)

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> On Feb 27, 2014, at 4:08 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Of Dion Hulse (dd32)
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>> Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Interesting reading material re "Blacklisted
>> Plugins"
>> 
>> 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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