This is the only place on the web I’ve been able to find a reerence to the issue (certainly it’s nowhere on the WP support forums that I’ve found so far.)

Am appalled and about to drop wordpress in favor of textpattern —

Thanks for putting this information out there. Especially since on one else will!

My Zeitgeist plugin emulates the “Latest Activity” box from the Dashboard because other plugins use it to communicate. So that people could also choose to use the Incoming Links section, I bundle a mini-plugin with Zeitgeist that puts it back.

I’m hoping that WP 2.1 will have a pluggable Dashboard.

Version 0.2 has been live on a few blogs for a few days. So far there have been no reports of any problems, which is pleasing. That gives have a known stable base to fuck up! Yippee!

Goal

Produce saleable product. The Zeitgeist plug-in for WordPress is not free or open source software, despite being delivered in source form. Zeitgeist is good enough to be worth five bucks, per blog, per version. Zeitgeist saves that in time alone in less than a week. Best of all, Zeitgeist is developed by time-served software craftsmen, still valued by some these days, rather than wizards, which are cheap and freely available.

Feature List

Task; reading, participating, working, moderating
Focus; posts, comments, people, categories, schedule, moderation
Interest; time period, eliminate self, responses
Extras; excerpts, edit links, stay back-stage, refresh and page ageing, accessibility
Feeds; simple RSS aggregator
Style; pick out user levels, place divisions
Setup; only what you want, named groups of settings
Help; write, link

Technical Changes

Structure; functions
Database; design new and improve existing SQL queries, lighten as much as possible
Calculation; adapt for new incoming data
Output; tidy up, plurals, write new bits

Please post the link to the official WordPress money-back guarantee.

I would rather the WordPress developers spend time developing their product, not pulling in useless RSS feeds, spamming my database and monitoring the activity on my blogs.

All they need to add is a switch to the options such as “Disable WordPress spam feeds” or “Stop this blog telling Technorati it exists”, or perhaps some more marketing-friendly text.

Spyware is spyware, whether it is free or commercial. No-one should be allowed to get away with spying on users or marketing to them without permission.

Don’t post on the web? Did you read about my local blog installation for testing, which STILL informed WordPress about its existence, even though impossible to access from outside?

Would you rather the wordpress people spent developer hours working on this edge case (adding code paths that would only be used if the blog is not publicly viewable) or implement features that you actually use?

PS: Wordpress, like all free software products, comes with a money-back guarantee; if you’re so unhappy with the product, I suggest you use it.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Now skugg, is Google going to index my private site, or not? Public access does not mean public viewing. If Google disobeys the robot exclusion, will it get any of the private data? Will anyone know about the private site if I don’t tell them it exists?

Don’t post on the web? Did you read about my local blog installation for testing, which STILL informed WordPress about its existence, even though impossible to access from outside?

Google, although all-powerful and all-seeing, is polite enough to ask permission.

So at least one blog they thought they knew about is going silent. It will be dead to them. It is a blog where privacy matters to people.

This is sooo funny, but for all the wrong reasons… I hope you enjoy the privacy of your public weblog. It will last, oh, until early next week when google will have indexed it. If you want to keep things private, don’t post them on the web.

Your order for Zeitgeist Plugin for WordPress version 0.2 has been dispatched via e-mail. I look forward to hearing about your experiences with it.