Posted on 10/13/2018 7:16:21 AM PDT by Eowyn2
WordPress is shadow banning link news-site Whatfinger News by expunging referrals from Whatfinger.
Why do all these companies become intolerant leftist!?!?
I couldn’t remember the exact name for this site the other day. I did a search for conservative news sites. Never did find it.
Thanks.
At some point this shutting down of all Conservative views is going to have an impact. That said, “What finger” is probably the worst name for a news source l can think of.
This only applies to the corporate user site, or to all individuals using WP as their front end on private sites?
Recent Republican presidents and administrations couldn't get their message into the news - in quantity, quality, and accuracy. The leftists just didn't report what they didn't like.
Trump's genius is using the leftist media to get to the people. They so far haven't dared to censor his tweets. We can also watch his videos from the rallies. We can watch full speeches of his, not just some one-sentence quote.
Conservatives need to go big into MEDIA! It's happening. Someone had a list of conservative versions of google, youtube, etc. but I can't get me hands on it right now. If you have that list, please post it.
Bkmrk.
Hard to tell. As far as fellowship of the minds, they admit at the bottom of the page that they have new hosting now so I presume they used to be on wordpress.com which hosts sites for free plus you can buy goodies, like the ability to use your own domain name as opposed to something like, mysite.wordpress.com.
They also say they use the Jetpack plugin which is a big no no among people in the know. It’s fairly intrusive and bloated. FOTM claims they use it because their users are familiar? Naah, I think these people are just running their own sites and don’t necessarily know how to do it properly.
A whois for whatfinger only shows that they have domain privacy from godaddy.
You have
wordpress.com (free hosting similar to blogspot)
wordpress.org (home of the open source wordpress software, plugins and themes)
It’s all open source on the .org site and I doubt they could get away with having code in their to “shadow ban” people otherwise developers would see it and be up in arms.
I think whatfinger and fotm are totally non tech saavy and so they’re relying on certain services and software to do things.
What they should be doing is running the open source wordpress on their own hosting and researching every plugin they use. There’s plenty of good, free, open source plugins and themes to choose from but you have to be able to separate the good stuff from the crap. There’s a lot of middle east developers making crap, also Russians, Ukraine and pretty much every country that has internet and developers. Sloppy code and some have been caught putting malicious code into their wares.
I did right-click > view source for FOTM and saw that it’s using a wp theme called Coraline. I went to wordpress.ORG and searched for it. Zip, nadda. Did a web search and saw that it’s a wordpress.COM only theme. That means FOTM is using wordpress.com FREE hosting and paying a buck or two a month to use their own domain.
There’s a lot of good, free, open source plugins and themes but you can’t use most of them on a wordpress.COM site. They limit you to mostly their own plugins and themes.
Free = Bloat
Free = Tracking
get what you pay for - pay for what you get
Complaining that free shiot ain’t good enough? Hmm, who does that remind me of?
I have jetpack on my site but it is not active - so I’ll delete it now -— thanks
First plugin I install is wordfence security plugin.
wp-spamshield used to be my second go to but it’s no longer free.(comment spam prevention) I still have an older copy and it seems to be working but I suppose it will become outdated at some point. I wouldn’t mind paying for it except that he charges per site and it’s an annually recurring fee.
Most sites I’ve done have been static business brochure type sites so I just turn commenting off on those because they don’t need it.
This site https://wpvulndb.com/ tracks known vulnerabilities in wordpress themes and plugins and for wordpress itself. Even some of the best get listed on there occasionally but they also fix the issue pronto. If you see something listed numerous times and they’re slow to fix it, best to avoid.
Cross-site scripting and SQL injection are bad ones.
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