WordPress Plugins Discontinued
April 17, 2007 2:57pm 15 comments
I have officially discontinued support for all of my WordPress plugins. Over the past couple of months I've continued to receive questions about the plugins, so I thought I'd write here, once and for all, the authoritative explanation. All old links to the plugins should direct to this post, so now most folks should be made aware of what's going on.
I'm focusing on Habari for now. My more popular plugins have found new homes, to which I have linked below.
Do not contact me about support for my WordPress plugins. You should seek support at the WordPress Support Forums.
The files below are provided for reference purposes only.
- cat2email
- sdm_comment_auth
- gravatars (new home: http://zenpax.com/)
- impostercide
- in-series
- not-to-me
- sdm_moderate_authors
- sdm_spam_check
- subscribe2 (new home: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/)
- vhost
- wp-cron (obsolete in WordPress 2.1+)
- wp-db-backup (new home: http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup)
I'm sure that someone has probably asked this before. You found a problem with WP / the developer(s) and gave up on WP? Why not try to fix the problem find a solution and blog about it? :-)
Joe, I did write about my problems with WP / the developer(s). It is my opinion that the things that are fundamentally broken with WordPress are things that can't be fixed with patches. It's more an issue of behavior and attitude than it is specific problems with the code. That's not something I can fix directly.
I also wrote about why I think Habari will be better.
thanks for the previous contribution towards the community.. good luck!
If no-one before said thank you Scott Merrell for your earlier pro bono support then let me say it now.
Good show.
Hi Skippy:
I'm new to Wordpress so I am just following links from plugins I might install.
Thanks for your word on Wordpress.
I wish you the best with Habari http://www.habariproject.org/
David Spencer in Canada
Hi Skippy;
In your "About" page, you mentioned
"I have travelled to 16 countries in the world."
I hope you've had the opportunity to visit Canada.
David Spencer in Canada
http://www.davidspencer.ca
Well, we're all missing you. I really hoped you'd change your mind. But THANKS for all your work on WordPress and good luck on your new projects.
And remember, if you do want to come back to us, we'd love to have you.
Hi, Skippy. Is Impostercide licensed under the GPL? I would have guessed "yes," but the php file just says Copyright 2005 Scott Merrill.
Scott: yes, Impostercide is licensed under the GNU GPL v2.
Great -- Thanks! (And thanks so much for all of your free software and free culture work -- I'm looking forward to following Habari development.)
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Hi Skippy,
I write from Spain, so that... excuse me for my english!
I use Wordpress 2.1.2 and I want to send future pings with my programated posts. I know that I've to use the wp-cron plugin, but you say that it's obsolete in WordPress 2.1 and more! Is there any plugin to do that in this version?
Thanks a lot!
sergio: newer versions of WordPress include a new cron system, which makes my plugin obsolete.
Hello Skippy,
does the wp-db-backup plugin works with the new cron system in the version 2.5?
Thanks anyway for the great job
Andly
Andly: I don't have a clue whether wp-db-backup works with the latest WordPress internals. I've not used WordPress in quite a long time.