Rick Mac gillis

Thank you. Hopefully they fix this issue soon.

Devs, check out OWASP’s security write-up on why having X-Powered by, and other identifying marks, are bad for security. Pretty much any hacker worth their name can identify a WP site manually, and probably even program their bots to easily identify one. However, the real issue here is that version numbers help people find CVE and NVD entries much more readily, and if that version has a known flaw, it’s bye-bye website.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Fingerprint_Web_Application_%28OTG-INFO-009%29

This plugin has yet to be updated to remove this security flaw. I also want to note that it’s setting the X-Powered-By header which also shows what technology the website is using.

X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.4.1

Wow… I’d like to suggest changing the tone of the linked to article to not be condescending. There isn’t a “big red letters” section on the WordPress plugin description and the only thing that it says on the description is that Reddit was supported since version 3.0.

I didn’t choose to ignore any information, in fact, I sought the reason why it wasn’t showing up as a choice. As you’re saying, “thanks to all people who chose to ignore the warning written in big red letters,” you’re implying that I’m not the first to wonder what’s going on. To put it bluntly, it appears that the way you’re attempting to convey that Reddit is no longer supported in the free version, is ineffective. Perhaps if you update the description on your plugin, you’ll find that people will stop asking why it’s missing.

Hope this helps!

You’re right. Nice work. For anyone else having this issue, enable the try/catch and add the following to the end of your script exclusions.

,advertisement,jquery,adblock-detector

If you’re not using JQuery, then just ignore that part. I’m going to write a 5 star review now. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the info. Your demo is working in my current setup, but for some reason it doesn’t work on my site.

Domain: rickmacgillis.com (Check the homepage on the right sidebar under the “Who’s Online” box. Nothing shows when ABP is on and it shows ads when ABP is off.)

Browser: FireFox 32
ABP: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
OS: Windows 8.1 (I seriously doubt that it matters.)

I have FireBug and my console says that it didn’t detect any changes.

If you don’t know of anything causing this by tomorrow, I’ll start disabling plugins and see what happens. Do you know of any compatibility issues with other plugins, such as W3 Total Cache and Autoptimise? As this works through JS and I can clearly see the code is correctly displaying, it might not be a compatibility issue.

I don’t know exactly why this worked, but I logged into WordPress.com and started saving settings everywhere that corresponded to the notifications screen. I also opened the notifications on WordPress.com to see what happened. When I returned to my site and refreshed the page, the situation was resolved.

Jetpack Team: Please check this out and figure out what triggers it to start working again. This, of course, shouldn’t be happening. Thanks!

Please let us all know how you solved this issue instead of taking it private. I’d like to know how to fix this as well.

It was due to a MySQL permissions error. Sorry for the confusion.

How did you resolve it?