[wp-hackers] wordpress security
mrmist
listswphackers at mist.org.uk
Mon Oct 19 17:11:36 UTC 2009
In message
<f38206c90910190752p6257046bk217941cabb21feed at mail.gmail.com>, Jeremi
Bergman <jeremib at gmail.com> writes
>I would agree with this. As an admin of multiple WP sites, I do not login
>to each admin panel unless needed to.
>
>Would be nice to get an email that said an update was available.
>
But then as an admin of multiple sites, you do not fit the supposed core
target for such a feature, that being the average Jo user.
A feature such as email inform might be useful, but it'd have to be
pretty customisable - e.g. the to address not necessarily being the
"admin" user - and warn users that the feature is dependant on server
email config being correct.
I also believe that the points made by others already in this thread,
such as the aspect of creating reliance on such an email, are pretty
valid and I could see it creating more support load in the forums than
it solves.
On balance, I'd say that the demographic that ignore or who are bothered
by the upgrade nag screen, would ignore or be bothered by an email, and
that those who fall outside of this demographic would have either
already upgraded based on the nag screen, or represent a small enough
set that it's just feature bloat to stick it in core.
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mrmist
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