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Cool, thanks, Camu. And thanks for your hard work.

Hi Camu, thanks for replying. No intention of spreading “false” information. The sources posted are older and mention previous version of the plugin, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still an issue. Instead of being defensive and denying any remote possibility of a security issue, perhaps you could ask more questions to dig into it a bit for 100% assurance that the hacks aren’t a result of using Slimstat.

You have the best stats plugin for WP that I’ve come across so far. But you can’t blame me for feeling uneasy with the fact that when Slimstat is up and running, there are scripts being injected into header.php. But not happening when the plugin is disabled. I will monitor the situation more closely and test other plugins and report back. But may this message be at least some sign that there could be a 1 percent chance of a vulnerability in the plugin.

If the site becomes hacked the same way without Slimstat within 1-2 weeks, I will come back and ask for this thread to be removed.

Please excuse me if I should start a new thread for this, but it’s on the same topic as the title. The email notifications are indeed not working now. Also thought it was WP or GoDaddy until I tried the Check E-Mail plugin you recommended. Those test emails work, as well as other form emails and new user registration emails. But no notifications are coming through when new user submitted posts are entered.

Thank you ??

It didn’t work because your divs and classes are going to be called different things.

If you are using the Premium Pixel Theme I think you’re using, then you will also have to reduce the size of the content section or else there won’t be enough room for both.

You could try this:

#content-wrap {
    float: left;
    width: 680px;
}

But I have no idea if it will work, nor do I know if it will screw other things up.

It was probably a change made in the plugin stylesheet. Did you try to uncheck “Include default ad stylesheet?” in Wp-Admin > Ads > Settings?

That is exactly how the widget is supposed to look. There are no options there, the options are on the main admin sidebar. This plugin works fine.

This is very strange because everything looks fine in the css. The only different in the source code is that the broken one is wrapped in this div class: <div class=”execphpwidget”>.

How is it that you have two completely different sets of ads running on the same site? Could that setup have something to do with it?

It’s because your sidebar is too narrow. If you make it wider the two columns will show.

Try changing line 1446 of your stylesheet which is:

.widget-area {
    float: right;
    width: 26.042%;
}

to something like:

.widget-area {
    float: right;
    width: 31.042%;
}

Unfortunately Twenty Twelve isn’t the easiest theme to modify, but hopefully this will work for you.

I still think this is one of the best ad plugins around. But can you please work this into the next version? Ads should open in a new tab, people expect that. Thanks!

I was being quite nice and respectful, but sadly you found a way to misinterpret the tone and replied with a bad attitude. It’s unfortunate that this feature will never be added to Activity Plus.

I thank you both for your responses and input and will continue to use Activity Plus as is. Pay for premium WPMUDEV support? Unlikely, based on this experience.

Hi Kimberly, thanks so much for replying to this feature request. Your plugin is most excellent!

Pinterest does not only create a thumbnail based on links. They use the full images but resize them to their deign needs of 554px max width. All you have to do is go to Pinterest and click view image to see that the actual image is indeed hosted on their server – this is way beyond a thumbnail.

Moving forward, could you guys possibly add a feature to generate a 554px thumbnail based on image data from the links that would be stored on the local server the same way Pinterest does? It seems that this would follow your suggested terms of etiquette and would still make it easier for users rather than having to upload each image.

Thanks!

(Note: Pinterest was not mis-characterized here. In the Quora link you provided, the Pinterest engineer said it herself: “A pin image can either be uploaded or scraped from a URL. Once we have the image data, we use PIL to generate the thumbnails.” And to further prove this, pin something from WPMUDEV and then delete the original image. It will still remain on Pinterest and not be deleted there because it has been scraped.)

(Note: This feature does not promote improper scraping. For example, Buddypress users that are active on Instagram would use it to share their own Instagram images on the Buddypress site. This is well within their right. Or for sharing creative commons images, also well within users’ rights. Yet, when depending solely on linking, it is bad for the Buddypress site because if any of the linked sites are having connection errors, then the linked images would not work.)

(Note: Also, it is regarded as equally bad etiquette to hotlink images from other sites effectively stealing bandwith. Yet, even with the very valid arguments, it’s clear that you are the God of Activity Plus and will deny this request perhaps out of spite because of this discussion. Thanks anyways for the consideration.)

PS-you were not misquoted anywhere in this thread =)

While your response is appreciated, it is absolutely ridiculous. What do you think Pinterest, a $7.7 billion company does? Not to mention that the image would still be referencing the original source and linking directly to it. In fact, most sites would rather you don’t just steal their bandwidth by hotlinking to their image. The potential copyright issues are the responsibility of the site using your plugin, it has nothing to do with the plugin developers. At least give the plugin users the option please.

The way your plugin currently handles linked images is not ideal because of issues with resizing and if the original source goes offline then the linked post is useless.

“Actually uploading it” is an inconvenient process that isn’t as user-friendly as simply copying and pasting a link.

With all due respect, and with the intention of only making this plugin better, why not just say you don’t know how to do it instead of a copyright cop-out?

Is there a way to find out why it was closed and why it should not be used? Thanks

Thank you for the update. I will try your plugin again because of your excellent support. Is it safe to uninstall statpress visitors and reinstall statcomm?