[wp-hackers] wordpress security
Stephen Rider
wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Thu Oct 22 02:50:35 UTC 2009
On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:23 PM, William Canino wrote:
>> probably not for the vast majority. It could be done with a
>> plugin, and is probably best left to a plugin.
>
> Is it because you think plugins --- most of which are maintained by
> one or two people only and who don't use a peer-review VCS --- are
> less vulnerable to security holes or attacks?
No. It's because I think automatic updates would cause problems for a
large number of installs, and wouldn't work anyway on a lot of
installs, and because those who do need it could use a plugin. Core
features should be those things that are useful for *most* users.
I'm not to familiar with the Core Update code, but I'm guessing
there's a core function that could be called to do the job, so
creating a plugin would just be a matter of triggering that core
function at the appropriate time.
Stephen
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