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

[Christy Eller]

When I first started with WordPress, I was totally afraid to delete Hello
Dolly. I was sure that it was tracked somehow, and someone would know I was
a disrespectful WordPress user, or at the very least it would hurt Matt's
feelings...

Christy Eller
IamChristyEller.com
970-314-1840



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marius Jensen <funman at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's clearly made up of pure evil and voodoo magic :P
>
> I'm guessing the original list they used had it listed because they had
> clients who got exploited and code injected into X plugins, and Hello Dolly
> is pretty much always there on self hosted so it's a safe target in that
> regard, still...why veto a list when you can copy it, amirite?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Keith Messinger
> <keithmessinger at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Wow. Hello Dolly. Who knew?
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-forums [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On
> Behalf
> > Of
> > Jan Dembowski
> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:26 AM
> > To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: [wp-forums] Interesting reading material re "Blacklisted
> Plugins"
> >
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I came across this link in a post today.
> >
> >
> >
> http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8964/managed-wordpress-blacklisted-p
> > lugins
> >
> > 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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> Marius Jensen
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