peterwsterling

I’ve included Pon? J’s updates in the latest release. Hopefully this fixes this as he describes.

sorry, I don’t understand this query…

Thanks for these updates, I have included them in the latest release.

Well, 200,000+ downloads suggest otherwise, this plugin works fine. Please do feel free to contact with specific questions if you are having problems with your particular installation… That’d be a much better approach than assuming the plugin is at fault when most often it’s a simple user error or misunderstanding…

This is easy, just add (or remove) “Flags” as described under: How to Tag a Post with a Country on the plugin’s home page. (Note, this method applies to the “lite” and “enhanced” versions.)

OK, great that it’s on your to-do lost. Any idea when you might get round to it? It can’t be too hard to replace a hard coded list of roles with the results of a simple (ish) WP query…

Again thanks for your time Otto.

But I do think you are missing my point. Please try to put aside any dogmatic positions about GPL that either of us may have. What I’m trying to point out – and at least get you and other senior members of the WP community to at least consider and not reject out of hand – is that this may not be the most sensible, fair, or sustainable way to go on forever. Are you flexible? Do you think it may be possible that there are other, maybe better, answers out there beyond what you currently know and think? I’m sure your answers to those questions must be “yes”. Therefore, why not consider a debate about my points rather than simply reject them?

Thanks Otto.

This is a start. But I still think there’s someway to go before the WP development community is better served and protected from this kind of dishonesty. The fact is that almost every WP user is not a developer and won’t have any intention, desire, or skill to be able to figure this out for themselves. Thus hard working WP developers will remain unseen while those who plagiarise take the credit.

A lot of WP developers rely on users following up with paid work based on the quality of their GPL contributions. This is clearly this guy’s business model (https://www.simpleintranet.org/pricing/), yet much of the referral business he will get from users who see and follow the far more user visible links presented.

I urge the senior WP community to give this some thought. It doesn’t serve honest WP developers (e.g. me) well, it doesn’t serve users well (i.e. they don’t easily see who is really best suited to help them out), and it doesn’t serve WP well.

he’s only using your work

I’m not at all sure I see that as “reasonable”. But even then as you recognise, he does not even the credit my original work – which is not allowed by GPL. Deleting the comment block that identifies the original work is simply dishonest! Under any circumstances I feel that the WP community should discourage that sort of behaviour…

Thanks. I understand the license issues, but it does kind of mean the plugin library hosted by WP can end up with 100s of duplicate rip-offs? Not good for anyone in the community…

Crikey mate, have some manners!

There is no problem to fix – don’t try to assert that the plugin is broken or that I am un-interested, the problem is with your configuration. Have you read the FAQ? Have you looks at the instructions?

You write, “your plugin”, are you saying the is another plugin in this scenario?

There is a simple option allowing all users of this plugin to set that nature of, or completely turn off, the author credit link. Please read the documentation!

Look at line 1282, the local definition of get_avatar has 4 args.

The plugin is NOT broken – you must configure the plugin correctly for it to work.