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redsand
(@redsand)
Hi mkormendy,
Thanks for getting in touch. I really do understand how frustrating it might be be. It’s not very often that we push updates every day. If a bug gets reported though, we make it a priority to fix immediately, and that is the only time we will do that. Making sure that users have a flawless experience is a very high priority for us.
Regarding automatic updates, we may add that down the road. (We have some exciting plans for the plugin’s development in the next year.) WordPress actually has that functionality already built it to automatically update plugins, its just turned off by default and most people don’t know about it. If you install a plugin like Advanced Automatic Updates, it will take care of that functionality for you and allow your plugins to update for you.
Let me know if I can help with anything else. Have a good one.
– Scott
I’m not asking for automatic updates, well aware of it, and it’s not something that fits my development/maintenance best practices when it comes to web development, esp. with wordpress plugins.
I appreciate the approach to speedy, flawless updates as well — that’s often what “nightly builds” are for in situations with critical circumstances. However, the option to subscribe to nightly/immediately available versions should be available.
Looking at your revision notes on the past 4 versions, these all could have occurred in one rollout, and if people wanted access to the nightlies, they should just simply manually install from an online repository like github, or even wordpress’s subversion plugins trac.
But this actually isn’t just an issue with your plugin but many other plugin developers as well. It used to happen with Yoast’s SEO/analytics plugins, until I mentioned it, and now his updates happen less frequently in tight concise packages.
This looks like an opportunity for me to create a custom plugin to defer/postpone any updates for specific plugins, that hides the notification that there’s an update for a certain period of time.
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redsand
(@redsand)
I hear you and appreciate the feedback.
Plugin Contributor
redsand
(@redsand)
Since this thread is not related to reporting anything broken with the plugin, I’m going to mark this thread as resolved.
If you have further questions, comments or suggestions, please submit them to us via our main support channel, the WP-SpamShield Support Form. Thank you.
Plugins include a product and a service, unfortunately there is a service issue with the plugin that has been unresolved.
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redsand
(@redsand)
What you’re expressing is a difference of opinion on how we should run our development practices, not something that’s broken. You are free to have your opinions, just as we are free to not take every suggestion we receive.
This is a free product, and you are welcome to use it or not use it. There is no service associated with the free product. As I mentioned, if you would like to discuss further, contact us through the link above.
Again, since this is not about something actually being broken with the plugin, I’m going to mark this thread as resolved. Again. Please don’t continue to mark this thread unresolved.
Just release updates on a schedule that is less frequent on the plugin and this will be resolved. 🙂
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redsand
(@redsand)
As I mentioned above:
It’s not very often that we push updates every day. If a bug gets reported though, we make it a priority to fix immediately, and that is the only time we will do that. Making sure that users have a flawless experience is a very high priority for us.
I’m happy to discuss further with if you wish…just use the link above, and we can email back and forth. Have a good one. 🙂
I managed to find a plugin that nicely disables and ignores plugin-updates for plugins that update all too often, yet still allow for a notice if I go to the plugins area of the website which I visit on a frequency is more suitable for my site maintenance.
If anyone else would like to do the same, please visit the following link:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-manage-plugins/
It’s a little bit old of a plugin, but it still works like a charm!
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redsand
(@redsand)
It’s extremely unsafe to run plugins that have not been updated in 6 years. that’s an excellent way to get your site hacked, hence the warning from ww.wp.xz.cn:
This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
WP-SpamShield’s average user is not a developer, and unfortunately your suggestions really only help those who are developers. Our focus is on doing things that are helpful for the vast majority of the plugin’s users.
When you update a plugin in the WordPress subversion repository, it only marks a plugin as updated in your WordPress dashboard as having a new version when the version number has been changed in the files. Most of the time, with the exception of bug fixes, we only release new versions at a max of 1 to 2 times per week. As you may know, security and anti-spam plugins require regular updates. The only file that we update between actual releases is the readme.txt on occasion. If you’re referring to receiving notices in a security plugin such as WordFence because the readme.txt file has been updated, then you can simply set it to ignore that file, and you won’t receive updates any more about that.
As I’ve mentioned several times already, if you’d like to discuss further, please follow the link I posted above and we can email back and forth.
I’ve done my duty to helping the community and provide options. Thanks. I’ll consider this resolved since I fixed it myself.
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redsand
(@redsand)
I’m glad you found a solution that works well for you. Have a good one.
