Obnoxious Advertising

  • The plugin is great except that “Ohz” forces an obnoxious advertisement at the bottom of EVERY page of the admin area, including for all users, including for your clients, and the advertisement tends to print on top of other items; it isn’t even placed properly so that it looks good. When I was the only admin I could tolerate it, but now that my site has other users and even clients, this plugin makes me look like a fool so I just deactivated it and deleted it.

    If Ohz had a little less ego he might put a checkbox to remove his blatant self-promotion. Sure, he has a right to do whatever he wants with his free plugin, but if Ohz wants to promote himself then just make a plugin called “I’m Super Ohz” and let this plugin alone.

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  • Hmmm… from your description, the plugin seems to contravene the following plugin guideline:

    Plugins should not hijack the blog admin. It is fine to include an Upgrade prompt on the plugin admin page, but not throughout the blog. It is acceptable to embed a widget on the dashboard but this should be the same size as others and be dismissable. It’s fine to put an error message at the top of the admin for special cases, but it should be linked to a way to fix the error and it should be infrequent. Any form of “nagging” is absolutely prohibited.
    In general, things like banner or text link advertising should not be anywhere in a plugin, including on its settings screen. Advertising on settings screens is generally ineffective anyway, as ideally users rarely visit these screens. Third party ad systems rarely permit their usage on admin-only screens (notably, Google Ads does not permit its usage there); if they do permit back-end ads, the quality will be low as those systems cannot see the page content to determine good ads.

    I’ve tagged this review for the attention of the plugin team.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    This is not a violation.

    The only ‘ad’ is this at the bottom of the admin footer

    “Thank you for using Admin Drop Down Menu, a wonderful plugin by Ozh”

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