Home Page Control Plugin
November 16th, 2005
Il Filosofo
In the ever expanding uses of WordPress, this plugin offers more options in using your install. Allows for the WP install to be in root, then set a Page as the default home page, then posts, or how ever you use the posting feature, to be in a subdirectory. Will be giving this one a twirl, as I’m working on a WP install as a CMS now. Will give some feedback.
**EDIT– This plugin is not recommended. It is not something that can easily be deactivated, and unless you are familiar with .htacess, you will bork your blog.
Could you be more specific about how it “borked” your blog?
By the way, in WordPress 2.0, now in beta, it doesn’t change the .htaccess at all, so it is easily de-activated.
A, I did not use the plugin on this site, it was on a site I am constructing for someone else, in which I’m trying to use WP as a CMS, rather than a blog. I deactivated the plugin, and no matter what I did with .htaccess, the page that I had “stuck” as the home page, wouldn’t stop being the home page. I tried deleting the .htaccess, made things worse. Ultimately, I had to delete the DB, and do a complete reinstall. Your documentation leaves something to be desired regarding deactivation, to say the least.
B, there was no mention in the documentation that the plugin was meant for 1.6/2.0, nor was I trying to use the plugin with an alpha/beta install of WP. If the plugin was meant for such, you should have waited to release it, or put a caveat in the documentation.
As I announce plugins, I feel some sense of responsibiilty these days to test them. I am actually thinking about working in a ratings system, and testing all plugins on my testbed.
I’m sorry you had trouble. Since you are in the business of reviewing plugins, you might consider at least letting plugin authors know when you do encounter problems. If not a comment, even a pingback or trackback would have alerted me that something was up. As it was, I discovered this post only by perusing my referrer logs.
Anyways, I’ve updated the instructions to make the un-installation process clearer and the warning plainer. Although the plugin is not meant just for WP 2.0, that version does most of its mod_rewrite magic internally, so in the near future this kind of problem will become less of an issue.
Oops, I see there is a pingback at my blog entry.
If anyone else does have comments, suggestions, or complaints, the plugin page is here.