calisun

I agree with you and I know how it feels when something is not working, it sucks.
But looking from a standpoint of wordpress developers, they will say that the problem was not with wordpress, the problem was with a plugin.
So I don’t think it is likely they will implement this.
But good thing to know that this is possible to downgrade and thanks for sharing the youtube link on how-to.

Besides, looking at the video, manual downgrade process is no different from manual upgrade process. Very simple and easy process.

Are you running MultiSite then?

Yes, I am running a Multisite, with signup disabled and comments disabled.
I will try to look at logs on Monday.

Easy way to downgrade, make a backup of your installation and database before you start an upgrade. If something fails during an upgrade, simply override the program and database with backed up files, and you will be back to where you started. Much quicker and easier process than trying to downgrade.
Besides, that is why first step in upgrade instructions says “Take a Backup”

Also you asked which rule was broken?
It was a rule #4 “The plugin must not embed external links on the public site (like a “powered by” link) without explicitly asking the user’s permission.”

I think they should change it to make it clearer to: “”The plugin must not embed external links or code…..”

But if you had what I mentioned earlier: “during install, have a notice: “This plugin contains SPSN code, do you wish to continue?”
Than you would have complied with the rule requiring to ask for users permission.

There was a clearly visible link to the Privacy Policy of the SPSN.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that since you are doing the work for a plugin, you should be able to get some kind of compensation.
But the rule that was broken is because a person gets a plugin PLUS a code that is not related to the plugin and a user is not notified that they are getting something extra besides the plugin.
And the “Privacy Policy” is not cleat at all, at first it says:
“No individually identifiable information of any kind will be collected”
and lated down the page:
“Individually identifiable information will be accepted from plugin”

So, should you be able to make some money from the plug in? Absolutely yes.
But at the same time, a user should be notified CLEARLY that they are getting something extra besides the plugin itself. Something like, during install, have a notice: “This plugin contains SPSN code, do you wish to continue? (And have a link to the explanation of the code right there so people can read about it before continuing) and give them option to opt out, or at least stop the installation if they don’t agree.

Best thing to do is to be honest with people, if you try to include code that people don’t know about, people will suspect a shady practice and they will not trust you. But if you are open and up-front, people will support you, and many will want to help you make extra income.

If it was normal spam, and them not becoming Subscribers within the WordPress dashboard itself, then it would be a different issue, Calisun

My point was NOT if they show up or don’t show up as users. Like I said, I marked them as spam before going to user list, so I don’t know if they were there.

My point was that I have signup disabled and I have comments disabled on all my posts, yet somehow two accounts were created and two comments were posted on my site. One good thing is that the spam was not published, it waited for my approval.

Same thing happened to me yesterday.
On my site I have registration turned off, I have comments turned off for all my blogs and I don’t have any plugins installed.
Yet yesterday I received and email that I have two replies that need to be approved.
As soon as I logged in to my dashboard, I marked comments as spam. Right now I don’t see these users in my user list, but I am not sure if they were there before I marked their comments as spam.

As stated before, they had strange/ fake email. Their IP was from Germany and they posted spam about viagra which pointed to a Russian based page.

As far as I can see it, the rules were broken. And if plugin does things that the user was never informed about, than that is shady. I am sure the data is not being used for bad reasons, but hiding the fact that this is happening is a shady practice.

Nobody knows anything about WP Symposium and how it compares to BuddyPress ??

Huh, am I doing something I am not supposed to?
I have 9 top level domains pointed to one multisite wordpress install without any plugins, and it works great.

Every time I create a new domain, it gets created as: newdomain.PrimaryDomain.com
Afterwards I just go to: Network Settings, sites, I click on the new domain, and in “setting” in, Siteurl, I manually change from: newdomain.PrimaryDomain.com to newdomain.com

And everything works great.

And the “fix” I gave, it helps hide the Primary domain, so it does not show up, exactly the issue original post was about.

Besides, I can’t take credit for the fix, I found it here:
https://www.wpwebhost.com/2010/06/simple-domain-mapping-without-any-plugin-in-wordpress-3-0/

So what is the need for even having a plug in? I try to avoid any plugins unless it is absolutely necessary.
Plugins are done by good hearted people, but what happens when they decide to discontinue their work, and the way you build your site depends on that plugin? I have learned a hard lesson with few plugins, such as wp-hive.com
wp-hive.com developer got a new job and does not have any more time for the plugin.

My advice, avoid any plugins unless it is absolutely necessary or if you are sure that the developer of that plugin will be there for a long time to continue providing updates so the plugin does not break on the next wordpress update, provide bug fixes and security updates.

Got it, I am running my own server with an “unconventional” linux distribution. It is focused on security.
So by default this server has AllowOverride disabled. Once I found how to enable it, it works now.

Actually there is no need to use a plugin to map domains.
Not only will this method allow you to use subdomains without plugin, but it will also hide the primary domain from the world.
I have been using this for a while now, and it works great.

All you have to do is,
in wp-config.php, change:

from:

define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘domain.com’ );

to:

define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] );

Good luck.

https://myempire.yi.org/

As you can see, there is no header on the page because I uploaded a custom header, which is not showing. If I go back to one of standard headers, they show up fine.

Also in the post, the picture is not showing, only alt text. When you click on alt text to see the picture, it says that the picture was not found on this server, but I can see it fine when I ftp into the server inside: /wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2011/06/myempire01_0.jpg

I have seen posts here that state to check the .htaccess file.
I have double checked it, and it is exactly as what wordpress wants since I copy/ paste it. I have also compared it to the example given in wiki, and it is the same.

yup, I am in dashboard, appearance, Manage Themes, header,

Upload Image

You can upload a custom header image to be shown at the top of your site instead of the default one. On the next screen you will be able to crop the image.
Images of exactly 940 × 198 pixels will be used as-is.

Choose an image from your computer: