Denis de Bernardy

Many users activated it and then came back asking why all of their posts disappeared from their front page, hence the adding of every post to a news category. Think of it as the least bad of bad choices. (Patch welcome if you think it should be an option.)

As for bring the front page to a crawl, that has to do with joining the table with two other tables. Admittedly, the WP taxonomy schema is not ideal for this (it used to have one table less when this plugin got released), and MySQL is pathetic at running the resulting query. Yes, changing the WP schema and adding a field to the posts page would be a better option. (Patch welcome for that too, but do consider providing upgrading sites that have the plugin active already if you submit one…)

Bookmarking this for the next release. In the future, please be so kind to actually send it by email so we don’t miss it. ([email protected])

This ensures it’s compatible for prior versions. Won’t fix until my stats tell me there are no more 2.8 users.

This’ll be fixed in the next version

A cursory look at the source code should yield an answer. ??

I’m not 100% how to test that, though. Patch welcome. ??

D.

suhosin tests added. mod_rewrite tests improved.

email is still on the todo list, pending ideas on how to test it without sending emails all over the place.

filosofo is looking into adding cron tests.

k… there’s a neat list over here:

https://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html

In my case the only ones that are set, are the suhosin.log.* variables. Their value is empty in each case. I can easily picture stuff like suhosin.get.* or suhosin.post.* causing trouble. That would seem a lot more targeted…

@miqrogroove: That’s a bit too harsh imo. I’ve been using the extension for years without a hiccup. We’d be much better off nailing down which aspects of suhosin cause problems, and raise the appropriate notices.

(The same would apply to mod_security, but I’m not aware of any means to detect the latter’s settings from PHP.)

GD, JSON, mod_rewrite, IP address – done

I also added a check that suggests using the latest and greatest for each of Apache, PHP and MySQL.
https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/health-check/branches/alpha/hc-tests/

For the email check, it seems like a good idea, but who do we send it to? The user himself? If we rely on mail()’s return value, I suspect the test won’t be as reliable as it should be.

@aaron and westi: I like the idea of adding a checkbox near the run tests button, as in “send me the results by email”. it’s simple enough to implement, not intrusive at all, and it could be useful when delivering support.

@idealien: there is, yes. I added a check for safe_mode and another for open_basedir. When either or both are raised, it frequently means you can’t create folders.

@miqrogroove: if you’ve a potential patch to check for the stuff from Suhosin that causes problems, please send it by email.

re the lost terms, I think it should be fixed in WP directly. in the upgrader for instance.

of interest on the x-forwarded-for thingy:

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/9235

idea from aaron:

“can a user get a list of what IS on their server (PHP version/installed modues/settings, MySQL version, etc) and copy/paste to send it to someone? (or even just enter an E-Mail address and click send)”

adding IRC suggestions here for reference:

– cj: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#x-headers

– beaulebens: better to use core PHP JSON stuff, but WP has compat to deal with it

I’ll add a vote to getting the bug list squashed into oblivion.

if you’re using any kind of rss widgets or data importing scripts, those can make your site *very* slow.