Comments on: Home Page Control Plugin

By: filosofo

filosofo — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:59:53 +0000

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.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:21:11 +0000

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.

By: Miklb

Miklb — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:52:08 +0000

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.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:14:13 +0000

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.