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Category Archives: wp donottrack
See you at WordCamp EU next week?
I’ll roam the WordCamp EU 2017 campus next Saturday, contact me if you’d like to meet! :-)
Warning WordPress plugin users about their old PHP
After my initial disbelief about the amount of WordPress installations still on the slow and vulnerable PHP 5.2.17 (or older), I decided to warn users of my plugin with an non-dismissable warning on the plugin’s settings-page (and only there, so it’s not a default WordPress admin notice) cluttering the entire backend):
If you’re a plugin or theme developer and want to warn your users as well (without blocking them), here’s the code I used (do change the translation-domain from “autoptimize” into one that is applicable to your plugin):
You are using a very old version of PHP (5.2.x or older) which has serious security and performance issues. Please ask your hoster to provide you with an upgrade path to 5.6 or 7.0','autoptimize'); ?>
Crunching 2015’s numbers
So this was 2015 in numbers:
- blog;
- I wrote 107 blogposts, 41 ourTubes and only 8 in Dutch
- 211 comments were added
- Getting 98258 pageviews (up from 2014 (90K) but still significantly below 2013 (122K))
- Most popular posts:
- 5 tips to tackle problems with iframes might be an oldie, but it remains the most popular post with 20280 pageviews
- Requests for pages concerning Autoptimize combined totaled 17505 pageviews
- Quick tip: disabling WordPress author pages was the most popular 2015 article with 1767 pageviews
My WordPress plugins:- wp-youtube-lyte: pushed out 3 minor and 1 major release, getting 40264 downloads pushing the total to 250545 and having +10000 active installs
- wp-donottrack: no releases for this one (except for some small readme.txt changes),
downloaded 2355 times bringing the total to 14364 and +2000 active installs. - autoptimize: 2 minor and 1 major release, downloaded 265299 times this year, bringing the total to 506930 and +100000 active installs
That was 2015. For 2016 my main goal is to work on Optimizing Matters.
Firefox: how to enable the built-in tracking protection
Just read an article on BBC News that starts of with the AdBlock Plus team winning another case in a German court (yeay) and ended with a report on how Firefox also has built-in tracking protection which -for now- is off by default and is somewhat hidden. To enable it, just open about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. I disabled Ghostery for now, let’s see how how things go from here.
Bye 2014, it was nice knowing ya!
About my blog:
- I wrote 78 blogposts, 41 of which were OurTube’s and 16 were in Dutch.
- 341 comments got added (a significant amount of them actually being support-questions for Autoptimize)
- Got 90352 pageviews (significantly less then in 2013, got bitch-slapped by a panda)
- The busiest day was March 31th, with 480 pageviews
- Most popular post: 5 tips to tackle the problems with iFrames 15375 views
- Most popular 2014 post: Should you inline or defer blocking CSS? 2304 views
- Most popular Dutch-language post: Kate Bush live en bijna bloot 1110 views
- Most popular Dutch-language 2014 post: Nieuwe m.deredactie.be niet meer mobiel! 381 views
My WordPress plugins:
- Autoptimize
- 2 major and 7 minor releases
- 141324 downloads, bringing the total to 241650
- answered lots of questions and feedback on the support-forum, allowing me to improve both the code and the FAQ.
- 2015 will bring Autoptimize 2.0 (fixing the occasional WSOD & the cache-size problem) and Autoptimize Power-Ups (extensions for professional & power-users)
- WP YouTube Lyte:
- 2 major and 2 minor releases
- 36507 downloads, now totalling 210285
- 2015 will see continued improvements and WP YouTube Lyte Power-Ups (you guessed it, extensions for professional & power-users)
- WP DoNotTrack:
- 2 minor releases
- 4312 downloads, now 12009 total
- 2015 really should see a 1.0 release, which will finally include CSP-enforced protection.
Bye 2014, it was nice knowing ya, but I’m off enjoying 2015 now!
WP DoNotTrack whitelist & WordPress/ Jetpack stats
Although the number of pageviews of this blog already decreased from approx. 2100 pageviews per week before mid May to 1300 pv/week after (I never thought I’d ever be hit by a Panda), yesterday was an absolute disaster. Turns out that Automattic changed the domain of the Jetpack stats tracking pixel to pixel.wordpress.com, which WP DoNoTrack (for which I pushed out a small update in May) blocked as that domain was not whitelisted. The downside of white- instead of blacklisting.