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o i do if that happens it means you ve somehow failed to impart on your support staff the reality that they have to follow the guidelines too they are your responsibility and if you cannot ensure they follow the guidelines we simply won t allow them to use the forums at all anymore and you will be told why as for how to fix it you need to address the issue on your end why are you staff not aware they have to follow the guidelines why are they not listening to the warnings issued why are they continuing to have this kind of problem make sure everyone who represents you in the forums on social media wherever knows that their actions reflect on your whole company and they have to follow the guidelines too after all if your intern violates twitter s guidelines using the company account it s your company account that gets suspended other people are making the same mistake i am why aren t they getting banned warned they probably are actually we respect everyone s privacy and we don t blast anyone on socials so all conversations are in confidence as much as can be after all if you make mistakes and change your ways you wouldn t want the whole world knowing how much you messed up right it would be terrible embarrassing instead we treat you like an adult take you to the side and talk to you privately most people actually listen to the first warnings if a forum mod tells them to please stop doing a thing they apologize and stop the plugins team never gets involved and honestly that s the best way i made similar mistakes why did i never get warned luck or maybe we saw you made it once and never again mistakes happen most mistakes as long as they aren t repeated are recoverable don t panic if you made one mistake as long as you keep learning adjust as needed and don t do it again you re going to be fine why did i get a second final notice most of the time that means we changed the guidelines since the first one and felt it would be inhumane to not warn you about them we will do this even if your violations are unrelated to the changes to the guidelines the other time would be if we think you really did change enough since the last notice but you re running down another wrong path basically we think you are capable of change based on your historical behavior and we want to give you another chance why did i get banned without a final warning normally we warn but yes in some specific cases we won t they include but are not limited to physical altercatoions at official wordpress events banned users attempting to circumvent their ban intentional security violations ex making a backdoor in your plugin on purpose cyberstalking harassing anyone from wordpress org doxxing anyone all plugins themes are non credited forks or wholesale copies outright vulgarity hostility threats towards any member of the community in those cases we will always email and tell you exactly why you were banned the people who get those insta bans are often ones who got a plugin review and replied with vulgarities or suggestions of sexual activities involving a cactus not a joke it was in response to being told to not include their own jquery to boot we do get that people have bad days and we try to help them get back from it but that kind of abuse is untenable if you re willing to talk to us like that we shudder to think how you d behave to users what can i do after i got banned after a final warning honestly not a whole lot it s incredibly hard to make anyone trust you after you reached that point if you got the final warning and kept violating guidelines then you just squandered your last chance the whole reason you got that warning and not an instant ban was that we were trying really hard to get you to correct your behavior when you don t listen to those warnings we believe you are who you act like and we ban you now of course there are always exceptions they are incredibly rare and come with a lot of provisions and caveats if you really think you should be given a second final chance reply to the email and explain why just be aware that the odds are against you since you have already demonstrated you cannot or will not follow guidelines why don t you publicly declare why someone was banned historically because we don t want to keep hurting them angry people lash out see and while we re fine with taking it on the chin when people lash at us because we don t explain the details about a ban except in very rare cases if we made things public that mob would go after the banned dev see if everyone knew that a person or even a company was banned after we argued with them every few months for three years about not asking people for admin access on the forums or not tracking users in their plugins they would have a very different view of the developers if everyone knew a company was banned for telling the plugin team they could perform sexual acts on their parents wish i was joking then what making that public in a place where they cannot refute means they have no ability to make amends and yes sometimes people do come back and apologize sincerely for that behavior we don t disclose because of a kindness and a desire not to destroy someone s reputation or livelihood perhaps we re now at the point where that policy needs to change in order to minimize the false narratives running around but i m really divided about that one personally someone says they were banned should i stop using their plugins i can t answer that for you personally i would take their explanations with a grain of salt everyone and this includes the plugin team tends to tell a story to paint themselves in a better light if someone is arguing they did no wrong and were banned they re probably leaving some information out then again there are developers who tell people they messed up and got banned and deserved it questions i know this is a lot to think about and some of it sounds incredibly petty no one on the plugin team wants to close plugins especially the well known ones it s harmful to the community as well as the developers at the same time there is a practical limit as to how much the volunteers on wordpress org are willing to put up with someone s misbehavior that s why we have taken to formally warning people that they are on their last chance it s our fervent hope that with the information in the final warning people will correct their behavior and stop violating guidelines final notice reminder login to reply anton vlasenko 4 18 pm on september 9 2022 tags best practices security 14 top reasons not to use setlocale for character encoding conversion many wordpress plugins use the setlocale function while it s generally safe to use setlocale to get various information about a specific locale it s essential to understand that using setlocale to perform string manipulations has significant disadvantages the goal of this article is to raise awareness about those disadvantages disadvantages so what are they firstly setlocale is not thread safe if you run wordpress on shared hosting you may experience sudden changes in locale settings as though your plugin plugin a plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a wordpress website they can extend functionality or add new features to your wordpress websites wordpress plugins are written in the php programming language and integrate seamlessly with wordpress these can be free in the wordpress org plugin directory https wordpress org plugins or can be cost based plugin from a third party never called setlocale string functions that rely on setlocale to detect the current locale don t process some characters correctly even if the correct locale is set with setlocale take a look at this 3vl4 org example the expected output of the script is ž but the actual output is ů recommendations these are some recommendations on using setlocale that could make using it safer don t use setlocale to process strings in different encodings unless absolutely unavoidable don t use setlocale with lc_all instead specify the exact category category the category taxonomy lets you group posts content together that share a common bond categories are pre defined and broad ranging of functions you need e g lc_monetary lc_numeric if you need to change the current locale you must change it back to the previous value in order to preserve thread sanity at this time c should be used as the default locale setting best practices security felix arntz 4 09 pm on july 5 2022 tags performance plugin check proposal 2 proposal for a wordpress plugin checker for a long time wordpress has had the theme check plugin a tool which statically analyzes a given wordpress theme to determine if it follows certain theme development requirements and best practices this post proposes defining and implementing a similar tool for wordpress plugins that analyzes a given wordpress plugin plugin a plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a wordpress website they can extend functionality or add new features to your wordpress websites wordpress plugins are written in the php programming language and integrate seamlessly with wordpress these can be free in the wordpress org plugin directory https wordpress org plugins or can be cost based plugin from a third party and flags any violations of plugin development requirements and best practices with errors or warnings it should cover various aspects of plugin development from basic requirements like correct usage of internationalization functions to accessibility accessibility accessibility commonly shortened to a11y refers to the design of products devices services or environments for people with disabilities the concept of accessible design ensures both direct access i e unassisted and indirect access meaning compatibility with a person s assistive technology for example computer screen readers https en wikipedia org wiki accessibility performance and security best practices this post is based on an earlier proposal document that has been reviewed and discussed by the performance working group over the last several weeks see original slack message sharing the proposal goal and use cases the goal of the plugin checker would be largely equivalent to that of the existing theme checker fulfilling similar purposes for plugins specifically the primary goals would be to provide plugin developers with feedback on requirements and best practices during development provide the wordpress org wordpress org the community site where wordpress code is created and shared by the users this is where you can download the source code for wordpress core plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization https wordpress org plugin review team with an additional automated tool to identify certain problems or weaknesses in a plugin ahead of a manual review provide technical site owners with a tool to assess plugins based on those requirements and best practices the plugin checker should be implemented as a plugin itself allowing it to be used by similar environments to the theme checker however the scope of the plugin checker should preferably be slightly expanded so that it can better adapt to different environments to satisfy the following use cases it should support checking a plugin both from a wp admin ui ui ui is an acronym for user interface the layout of the page the user interacts with think how are they doing that and less about what they are doing and from the command line using wp cli wp cli wp cli is the command line interface for wordpress used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way the project page is http wp cli org https make wordpress org cli so that it can be conveniently run during local development or for continuous integration e g a github github github is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared copied and modified by other developers public repositories are free to host private repositories require a paid subscription github introduced the concept of the pull request where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner https github com action it should include checks that go beyond static code analysis static code analysis the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs in contrast with dynamic analysis which is analysis performed on programs while they are executing wikipedia such as runtime checks in which code from the plugin is actually executed to allow for additional best practices to be covered it should allow for customization of which checks are run for a plugin including allowing optional or experimental best practices checks to be opted in to or excluding certain checks for more of a baseline audit project breakdown the idea is that this plugin checker plugin would be developed in a github repository and eventually be published either as a plugin in the wordpress org plugin repository as a composer package on packagist or both an additional means of distribution could be to also publish it as a configurable github action from there both developers and site owners would have access to it and could use it as they prefer once the plugin is more established opportunities for this new tool to be integrated into the wordpress org plugin submission infrastructure should be explored in order to automate parts of the largely manual plugin review process and potentially catch additional problems the customization of which checks to run is critical particularly for this purpose as there is a good chance that the plugin repository would run a different set of checks than the default configuration emphasizing the more foundational requirements for all plugins while the initial purpose of the plugin checker will be for plugin developers and site owners to use the plugin checker all of the above use cases need to be considered during all stages of development of the tool proposed approach as outlined above the plugin checker should be implemented as a plugin itself primarily so that it is easy to install and usable within wp admin ui for site owners or developers in addition it should provide a wp cli command so that plugin checks can also be conducted from the command line the tool s static code analysis checks should rely on an internalized version of php_codesniffer providing more flexibility and simplifying maintenance as this is an established tool there are already existing wordpress tools for automated plugin analysis and several of them also use php_codesniffer which would mean that the new tool could use some already established checks in addition usage of php_codesniffer would allow even environments that are not wordpress to run at least the static analysis checks while many plugin requirements can be checked through static code 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