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1 Oct 2024

One of the Moderators of Reddit’s WordPress Forum Doesn’t Want People Know About WordPress’ Missing Conflict of Interest Policy

A fundamental issue with WordPress that has long existed, but hasn’t gotten the level of attention is deserved, is the inherent conflict of interest in Matt Mullenweg’s various roles. He isn’t alone in that. The Executive Director of WordPress “also leads Automattic‘s open source division.” Matt Mullenweg, of course, put that person in the role of Executive Director despite the obvious conflict of interest. Despite her obvious conflict of interest, she was going to produce a conflict of interest policy for WordPress that never was released. A code of ethics was also never released.

Yesterday, someone posted a link to our post about that on the WordPress Subreddit, /r/wordpress/, which was quickly deleted: [Read more]

6 Sep 2023

WordPress Subreddit Faces Content Quality Issues Despite Mods Not Being Purged

On Monday, Ars Technica published a piece with the headline “Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge“. The story claimed that expertise was being lost on Reddit because moderators of some subreddits were removed for a protest they were involved in. It didn’t really back that claim up, though. Also, a new moderator for a home automation subreddit pushed back on the idea that moderators have expertise:

A moderator on Reddit is probably rarely an expert on the topic they’re moderating over. Instead, they’re a passionate member of the community that sees the value in sharing information between community members, and we’ll all work together to make sure someone doesn’t touch a live wire. [Read more]

27 Oct 2022

WP File Manager Getting Evidence Free Blame for Hacked WordPress Websites

Earlier this week we mentioned how GoDaddy’s Sucuri security service isn’t doing basic work to properly clean up hacked WordPress websites. That involved them not trying to figure out how websites are being hacked. They are not alone in that, but others take that even further by blaming something for the hack without actually knowing if that is true, as they didn’t try to figure out the source. One recent example of that involves a thread on Reddit, which had 88 upvotes, where someone, claiming to work for a web host, blamed websites being hacked on a WordPress plugin named WP File Manager. By comparison, someone asking for evidence to support the claim was downvoted. While you can point the finger at Redditors for that mess, the claims made are worth breaking down, as they show how things can go wrong when dealing with hacked websites and how those that have the misfortune of having their website hacked, can get a better outcome.

Confusion Over Outdated Software

One of mistakes the poster makes is a failure to understand the implications of outdated software. They start their post this way: [Read more]