Title: Poor coding
Last modified: October 29, 2017

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# Poor coding

 *  [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-coding-5/)
 * The entire base of this plugin is poorly planned out. It contains a series of
   hacks that break basic coding standards in order to achieve it’s goal. It also
   targets other plugins and breaks them as I can see many other reviewers have 
   reported. Don’t risk crashing your site.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-coding-5/#post-9624967)
 * > The entire base of this plugin is poorly planned out. It contains a series 
   > of hacks that break basic coding standards in order to achieve it’s goal. It
   > also targets other plugins and breaks them as I can see many other reviewers
   > have reported. Don’t risk crashing your site.
 * As expected, a retaliatory rating from the developer of Plugin Organizer, in 
   response to [our review of Plugin Organizer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-wp-functionality-disables-wp-spamshield/),
   after he added malicious code to his plugin that intentionally completely disables
   WP-SpamShield on sites.
 * The irony of this, is that he completely ignores the major issues caused by his
   plugin and code, and yet he claims that WP-SpamShield will “crash” your site.
   Evidence clearly contradicts this false claim.
 * > It also targets other plugins and breaks them as I can see many other reviewers
   > have reported.
 * ??? This is blatantly false. WP-SpamShield is one of the most compatible plugins
   out there.
 * [@foomagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/),
    As previously mentioned,
   you ignore the damage done by your own plugin, you provide no option for other
   developers to opt-out or to work together, and then you complain when other developers
   add code to protect their own plugins.
 * _@ Anyone else reading this:_
    I apologize to all of you that you have see this
   side of plugin development. It’s quite unpleasant. This review can safely be 
   ignored. Unfortunately plugin developers sometimes take an adversarial approach
   instead of a collaborative one. We do our best to work with other developers,
   but sometimes they decide to be unprofessional.
 *  Thread Starter [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-coding-5/#post-9625016)
 * As expected, a response blaming me for blocking the malicious code you added 
   to your plugin targeting mine. As you’ve done to numerous others. Anyone who 
   wants to see evidence of it just needs to browse your support threads and bad
   reviews.
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-coding-5/#post-9625030)
 * [@foomagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/),
 * As usual, more false statements.
 * > As expected, a response blaming me for blocking the malicious code you added
   > to your plugin targeting mine.
 * Well, you clearly ignore the true timeline of events.
 * > As you’ve done to numerous others. Anyone who wants to see evidence of it just
   > needs to browse your support threads and bad reviews.
 * ??? Again, what??? Every word we’ve ever posted online is true and can be verified
   by any third party.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-coding-5/#post-9630663)
 * As I said in the other thread, stop.
 * Just stop.
 * I will suspend the next one of you who does this.

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