I’m writing this as feedback to the WordPress Plugin Review Team’s blog post on September 10. In it, they point out there are plugins in the plugin directory that install other plugins to the user site. In this feedback, I’ll take a plugin called “Redirection for Contact Form 7” (I refer to it as “wpcf7-redirect”) for example, look closely at where problems lie, and express my opinions.
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Say no to malicious add-ons
Twelve years ago, I posted to my personal blog an article titled Free Plugin Declaration: Contact Form 7 is Free. In that post, I praised the WordPress community and its open-source spirit, and swore that I would keep the Contact Form 7 plugin available free forever. Since then, my faith in the belief that WordPress plugins should be available for free has not wavered at all.
Continue reading Say no to malicious add-onsContact Form 7 5.9.7
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.7 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements. Contact Form 7 5.9.7 is the first version that has been tested with WordPress 6.6.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.7Consistent handling policy of surrounding whitespaces
On its user input validation, Contact Form 7 has basically emulated the HTML specification and major browser implementations. However, there is a problem. They don’t handle surrounding whitespaces in a consistent way.
Continue reading Consistent handling policy of surrounding whitespacesAvast false alarm again
Today I saw a lot of Contact Form 7 users reporting that the security software they use had detected a Trojan Horse in a script file in the Contact Form 7 package. I scanned the reported file on the WordPress.org plugin directory and found no problem, so I concluded that this is a false alarm.
The security software is provided by Avast Software. According to the reports from users, several other security applications from Avast’s group of companies showed the same alert. Avast is known to have caused a similar false alarm case that happened in 2021.
Contact Form 7 5.9.6
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.6 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements and bug fixes.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.6Conditional logic validation with the All and Any rules
In the Schema-Woven Validation terminology, a composite rule is a rule that has a set of child rules. Contact Form 7 5.9 and later support composite rule types, all and any, with which you can implement conditional logic in user input validation.
Contact Form 7 5.9.5
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.5 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements and security enhancements. Upgrading to this version as soon as possible is recommended.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.5Contact Form 7 5.9.4
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.4 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.4Contact Form 7 5.9.3
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.3 is now available. This minor update release includes a few bug fixes and improvements.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.3