I’m posting this here as well, just in case you don’t see the review response!
Six months later, and still this hasn’t been updated.
I really don’t feel that switching hosts to accommodate an unnecessary shell command is a reasonable alternative to simply checking if it can run shell commands before actually executing and failing to throw the error every time I visit the dashboard.
Which is still
Warning: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /wp-content/plugins/show-ip-address/show-ip-address.php on line 76
Especially for the server uptime, which this plugin isn’t actually meant to provide (hence it’s name of Show IP not Show Server Updtime).
I also don’t believe that this plugin really warrants a top-level menu item (such as Wordfence as a random example) instead of a sub-menu entry in “Settings” (such as Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd for another random example) with the rest of the plugins. Especially considering the setting page doesn’t have any settings, it’s just a short readme to provide the shortcode for the plugin.
And my final bit of feedback (which all of this really isn’t meant to be offensive in any way!), are you aware that your dashboard widget is bigger than the WordPress News widget? This is mostly because of the large photo you include, which should probably be removed as it’s unnecessary (and doesn’t actually serve a purpose besides aesthetics). In fact, even your plugin page doesn’t reflect the massive new dashboard widget. There’s also a lot of additional unnecessary static information on the widget that could be moved to the settings page instead to save dashboard space.
I would very much love to give a 5-star review, even still, because it DOES do what it’s intended to do… And I know these alterations could be done in just a minute or two! I just wish you’d finally get around to them. So the plugin can do what it’s meant to, without all of the frilly fluff.
Still waiting to update my review~!
-Luck
