When people rip on WordPress development this is the sorta crap they're talking about. In many ecosystems this would warrant the plugin getting pulled from the ecosystem but WP just lets it fly.
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Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
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Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#72I'm a big fan of vanilla WordPress, especially the new block editor, but the plugin ecosystem is a total mess. Almost all popular plugins come with a free version that spams you to upgrade to "pro". They add menu items to the admin panel with different colours so you find it harder to ignore them. They add messages to the dashboard. The look and feel of their settings pages don't match WordPress core. And, even if yo…
Have you released this plugin?
Kind of. It's on GitHub, but not yet in the WordPress plugin archive (I want to test it more with my organisation and some friends first).
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Since Wordpress is such "crapware" out-of-the-box, you can easily create a Yoast replacement plugin ...' The cynic in me wonders why such basics are not already included by now?
Because of Matt Mullenweg's strange philosophy of keeping only barebones features in "core" Wordpress and having all other functionality be delivered by plugins. This means that even to have a basic site, you just have to install various plugins to deliver key features, which leads to the bloat, instability and security problems that Wordpress is infamous for.
> This means that even to have a basic site, you just have to install various plugins to deliver key features,
You can run a perfectly fine blog using core.
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#74Did this happen on their GPL version, or their "premium" version, or both?
The premium version is GPL also. This happened in the free version.
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#75article thread is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661075 (?)
could / should (?) be merged.
as for all the doom and gloom, I think the main thing that makes this so bad is that the ad was hard to close - the X was not very visible / easy to click, some said clicking it still brought you to ad site...
to me the bad thing was that the ad was moving / not static. Might be time for a checkbox, 'allow plugins to show disounts / partners / third party ads' - some of them are helpful / wanted.
when a plugin hijacks your next screen, like wp-statistics does after an update sometimes (others too, eg all-in-one-seo sometimes )- I hate that even more than what this yoast ad did.