Andrei Neculau

I wanted to start a category regarding Wordpress plugins’ reviews, code changes/improvements along with my tiny plugins.

Unfortunately I’m starting with the left foot, since this post will also be part of the Junk category.

One useful plugin with 9 lines of coding allows you to make a page or a post to redirect the visitor to another location.

I installed it for future use - I will soon change the Photos page to be a media gallery and I didn’t want the gallery to be embedded in the blog.

After installation: Buff! Warnings about a file being required but not found. And I start to think: what a simple plugin and still with bugs!

I fix it by removing the unnecessary request for the required file. I thought it won’t take that long until the fix will hit the plugin release without a notification from my side. Today I saw the plugin had an available update, and I say: there it is! I upgrade automatically through the Wordpress interface, and…

Surprise-surprise: BUFF!

And this time I say: wtf? I go to the developer’s website and see that there was a comment regarding this, and the developer saying: “I believe I fixed the problem”.

I reply with a comment like “No, you did NOT fix it! You should do this and that, etc, etc” in a calm manner actually.

I even returned with another reply regarding the plugin’s way to filter post/page requests. Again, very impersonal and straight-forward. All in all, I was very constructive in my opinion since I had clear solutions.

In the meantime.. I get this email:

Hey, thanks for the advice on the plugin, but maybe next time you could cut out the whole yelling part? I get enough flak from spammers and crackhead blog commenters, I really don’t need you to yell at me about my coding.

Also, my comments were moderated.

And this is from a “developer” who ended up with version 0.8 in just 7 days, of a plugin downloaded by only 45 people and with no respect towards escaping function spam (implemented function named redirect globally).

So I guess this is what we end up having now: CAPITALS and an exclamation mark is like putting a knife at someone’s throat! Stop the jumpiness! React harshly to stupidity and destructive criticism, not to false yelling because of punctuation and presumed tone! Stop being silly Barbie girls who react to pinching as if you slapped them!

PS: This plugin/developer is out of my list (league)! Heck, I can code better than this and without this infatuation!

PS2: Lots of yelling I guess in the last paragraph! And imagine all this yelling with me keeping my laptop on my chest… “Uhh.. I’m so mad”