The pros and cons of open source wrapped up in one WordPress plugin incident. And fuck you WordPr…

The pros and cons of open source wrapped up in one WordPress plugin incident.

And fuck you WordPress.org for criticising the Wordfence response.

We will always put our customers and community first - Wordfence

On Tuesday we published a blog post about the 404 to 301 plugin inserting ad links into page content that only search engines could see. This is a technique called cloaking and will incur a penalty from Google. Since then we have received some criticism from the maintainers of the WordPress plugin repository for the way …