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here 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 or via the pluginreview channel on slack we are currently adding new team members as invite only please stay tuned login to reply ipstenu mika epstein 5 36 pm on september 27 2022 tags reminder 29 reminder we will check your website tl dr if you put a website as the official developer or 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 url url a specific web address of a website or web page on the internet such as a website s url www wordpress org and it does not exist or is under construction your review will be pended we know that sounds really weird but yes we re saying if you tell us that your domain is xyz and that domain doesn t exist or isn t public your review is going to be paused until you finish the site the primary reason for that is because those urls will be seen by all your users and if a user sees a great looking plugin with an incomplete website they will not trust you that s actually something that scammers do on the regular and you ve made yourself look like that so to protect you from an undeserved bad rep we check your domains the secondary reason is if you re a service we really do need that live so we can review the website and ensure it and the plugin are compatible with our guidelines can i just remove the url from the code most of the time yes however if you re a service and the service runs through that website then not only will you be required to make the site public but you will also need to include a terms of use and or privacy page on your site i made a typo what do i do reply to the email with ooops i typoed the real url is we ll ask you to update the code and your account so your users don t get confused and all will be well what if the site isn t mine it s the service owner s then you used the wrong account to submit the plugin remember all official plugins have to be owned by the official company if you were hired to make a plugin for boogiedownblues a fake company and the domain is boogiedownblues com then the account that submits the plugin has to use that domain for their email that protects you and them from any legal action later on my site is nearly done can i have a pass no again we re trying to protect you from being seen as an untrustworthy developer also we want to make sure your site isn t violating rules what if i need to have the plugin before i can have the site this generally happens with service plugins and if that s the case we will tell you no the site has to exist so we can validate the service do i need an about page and all that you do not but we do recommend it people prefer to know there are real humans behind things can i make a simple placeholder maybe it depends on what you put on the placeholder page and again if you re a service if the placeholder says coming soon then no what about lorem ipsum pages if your domain is filled with placeholder we consider it to be incomplete and will point out the problem same goes for clearly fake addresses and those about pages that all have the same face why does it matter if my personal site exists because you told us and by extension all your users this is who i am if your personal site is coming soon or has a placeholder no one can make a judgement on you save to say you re a dev who can t make a website and yes that is patently unfair we know but that s what people will think heck they complain to us every time we miss it we would rather you not start in a bad place why was i told not to use trademarks in my url because using a trademark in the domain name violates trademark law using a company s trademark in a url as a domain name in whole or in part like wordpress example com may constitute a violation of the company s trademark rights see brookfield communications inc v west coast entertainment corp 174 f 3d 1036 9th cir 1999 what you can do instead is have example com trademark that is generally allowed keep in mind some organizations like wordpress will allow the short versions so wpexample com would be fine others like woocommerce have more restrictions and actually prohibit wooexample com always check the trademark guidelines first reminder login to reply ipstenu mika epstein 9 14 am on september 13 2022 tags heroku heroku free tier being retired tl dr heroku s free plan is going away please update your services and make sure all your 3rd party libraries are up to date from their recent post starting october 26 2022 we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year starting november 28 2022 we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services we will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users roughly 300 plugins use heroku services many for free if you are one of those free users please make sure you make arrangements to either pay for the plan or replace your service as of december 2022 if people report 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 breaks because of that shut down we will close your plugin until it s corrected there s always the probability you re not going to want to or be able to migrate services that s okay too if you want to close your plugin you can do that yourself i would recommend pushing a final version that warns people on day x this will stop working if that s your choice the one thing that s really going to trip people up are those libraries though a lot of 3rd party libraries make use of heroku and not all are going to update we re going to do a sweep and let as many people know as we can but we wanted this to be public since a lot of people miss emails and also if your plugin isn t impacted but one you coordinate with is well you should know too heroku josepha 10 33 pm on march 23 2022 journal entry removal of the zamir plugin around 17 30 utc on march 23 2022 i was notified of a 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 in the wordpress ecosystem that contributors flagged as potentially violating the plugin directory guidelines the initial conversation can be found in slack following my review as the executive director the plugin was removed from the directory about an hour later this post is to provide information about what happened and anticipated next steps tl dr the zamir plugin used a loophole in the plugin guidelines created to protect members of the wordpress community there are no present guidelines that bar the support of political leaning or cause which is what this plugin s description claimed it was doing since z is emerging as a new symbol of hate and violence it was considered a grey area in initial checks and on further review was removed does this plugin violate wordpress guidelines yes many community members shared how the z symbol has come to stand as a symbol in support of russia s ongoing war in ukraine as a reminder wordpress guidelines call upon all community members including extenders like plugin authors to be kind helpful and respectful a symbol that is connected to an ongoing war and humanitarian crisis is none of those things what actions were taken with the help of wordpress contributors and community members the plugin has since been removed from the plugin directory while decisions to remove plugins are normally adjudicated in a slower more collaborative investigation process quick and decisive action was appropriate to prevent further harm to the community thank you to santanainniss for pulling together the timeline of the morning and to ipstenu for working to resolve the issue additional thanks to cbringmann helen angelasjin and eidolonnight for their review and thank you to our community of contributors for voicing their concerns ipstenu mika epstein 5 10 pm on november 29 2021 tags reminder 29 security 14 trademarks 5 please don t test submitting other people s plugins tl dr never test vulnerabilities on someone else s live site without their permission by now a lot of you have read the post about the so called wordpress plugin confusion whereby a 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 hosted on 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 can override a plugin not hosted here by using the same name permalink someone even made a cve for it please stop testing this vulnerability with us this is not a new issue by any means heck this has been something people report on now and then for years in the past the plugin team coordinated a release of a plugin to intentionally do that and protect users from a significantly dangerous plugin we ve locked out permalinks to prevent abuse and so on sadly the post conflated a couple of issues which have to do with social engineering and a misunderstanding of why we have those permalink checks for trademarks also it s entirely incorrect with this one claim and the whole approval process is automated this could not be further from the truth all new plugins submitted go through human review when you submit a plugin somebody reads your plugin code your submitted slug and name checks on the history of the plugin checks that the developer isn t a returned banned user etc the process is by no means automated and while it has some automated pre flight checks they re really there to weed out things that would end with a pended review to make the process faster for everyone while we have some tools we run they don t actually approve or reject anything they re just fancy code sniffers customized to look for specific patterns or known bad behavior outside of the overall quality like phpcs php code sniffer php code sniffer a popular tool for analyzing code quality the wordpress coding standards rely on phpcs you are using that right submitting things to test out what you think is an automated system is wasting the time of our volunteers and reviewers see that trademark block block block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that composed together form the content or layout of a webpage using the wordpress editor the idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes custom html and embed discovery into a single consistent api and user experience isn t actually there to protect trademarks for the owners we have them to make our life easier and to protect you the developers from making some pretty common mistakes just for an example we block akismet not because we were asked to by automattic but because over 50 people a year tried to submit a copy of akismet instead of uploading it to their own site as the post properly notes you can t submit a plugin with a permalink that s already in use be it on wordpress org or if it has a notable user base outside of wordpress org even if a name gets by those checks the review team can see if the permalink is being used and by roughly how many people that s a large part of why we have humans checking these things a human can look at an email and a plugin and check for proper ownership by the way as a number of people have complained about this is why we require official plugins to be owned by demonstrably official accounts like with an email address that uses the right domain and so on it s not just to prevent trademark abuse it s to ensure that kind of thing is less likely to happen now do you need to test this no all you re doing is making things more stressful and more likely to be missed which doesn t solve a problem do you need to add your trademark to the blocked list again no unless it s being actively abused or there s a high risk situation that it might be it s just adding more work for a low to negligible risk in the first place how do you protect your own non org hosted plugins from this use the update uri flag we check for it on org and won t allow you in with it since why but for plugins we don t host well that s literally why it exists use it love it but please remember the first step in ethical hacking is never trying out a vulnerability on someone else s site without their permission reminder security trademarks ipstenu mika epstein 10 30 pm on november 3 2021 tags reminder 29 reminder check your accounts emails and your committers hi devs we re getting nearer to wordpress 5 9 and that means the email will be headed out soon this is the perfect time to double check the email on your accounts especially if it s a group email mailing list make sure external emails like us can contact you without bounces or autoreplies you also should check everyone who has commit access to 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 did someone leave it s okay to remove their access and in fact is great to do so for 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