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1. It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0]. 2. If the ad was an admin notice, i

1. It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0]. 2. If the ad was an admin notice, it didn't look like one. It's a banner image with an outbound tracking link [1]. [0] https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/ https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detail... [1] https://imgur.com/a/oN7ZFRU https://imgur.com/a/oN7ZFRU

asadkn 7y ago
I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it seems dismissed [1]. It was a dismissable admin notice that looked like an ad and wasn't exactly a tracking link (in the wp.org classifications at least), but a generic marketing campaign link [2]. [1] https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69#issuecomment-560011084 https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69... [2] https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/class-admin-banner.php#L39 https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/cla...
- aliswe 7y ago
  Dismissable? Didnt the x button lead to a sales page?
  - jtbayly 7y ago
    Not when I clicked it.
huxflux 7y ago
Neither could you click the [X], or it was intentional overlapped for people to missclick. Crooks.
- jtbayly 7y ago
  It was hard to click, but I managed to click it, and it worked.
dhimes 7y ago
It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0]. Wow. When I was playing with WP I saw this a ton. It was so annoying that I would have to make a point of disabling the phone line home.

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1. It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0]. 2. If the ad was an admin notice, i

by jonny383 7y ago

asadkn 7y ago
I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it seems dismissed [1]. It was a dismissable admin notice that looked like an ad and wasn't exactly a tracking link (in the wp.org classifications at least), but a generic marketing campaign link [2]. [1] https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69#issuecomment-560011084 https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69... [2] https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/class-admin-banner.php#L39 https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/cla...
- aliswe 7y ago
  Dismissable? Didnt the x button lead to a sales page?
  - jtbayly 7y ago
    Not when I clicked it.
huxflux 7y ago
Neither could you click the [X], or it was intentional overlapped for people to missclick. Crooks.
- jtbayly 7y ago
  It was hard to click, but I managed to click it, and it worked.
dhimes 7y ago
It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0]. Wow. When I was playing with WP I saw this a ton. It was so annoying that I would have to make a point of disabling the phone line home.