01-19-2019, 07:55 AM
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So fuckin' bored
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
The hard fork will also be available directly from Wordpress as a Wordpress plugin via https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and the Plugins section of Wordpress. |
This will never happen. WordPress no longer accepts any plugins that syndicate content from other sources (e.g. RSS feeds, tubes etc).
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While the practice of content aggregation from multiple sites into one combined site is not inherently a bad thing, historically it has been misused for things such as spam blogs and the like. For example, a site set up to essentially "steal" content from multiple sources, republishing it without credit or attribution, and then used to host ads or possibly even malware. Then shady SEO practices are used to make the site rank above the original sources in search results.
These types of practices have long caused problems, and so WordPress.org has chosen to not host content aggregators or other such devices (for example, "content spinners") in the WordPress.org plugins directory.
The plugin directory is not just a listing service, but a hosting service. We provide free bandwidth, storage, support forums, reviews, and other sorts of services to plugin authors. However, we choose to do so on our terms, and at present, these types of things are not welcome. This is not a judgment on the quality of your plugin, nor of your intentions in creating it. A tool can be used for many different things, some legal, some not.
However, for these particular types of plugins, we have found that the misuses of it often outweigh the good uses of it, and so we choose not to host them. You're welcome to host the plugin on your own site, using your own bandwidth instead.
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Our current view is that we're not approving any new content aggregator tools. This may or may not change in the future.
Otto, WordPress.org
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