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WordPress Plugins Discontinued

I have officially discontinued support for all of my WordPress plugins. Over the past couple of months I've continued to receive questions about the plugins, so I thought I'd write here, once and for all, the authoritative explanation. All old links to the plugins should direct to this post, so now most folks should be made aware of what's going on.

I'm focusing on Habari for now. My more popular plugins have found new homes, to which I have linked below.

Do not contact me about support for my WordPress plugins. You should seek support at the WordPress Support Forums.

The files below are provided for reference purposes only.

• cat2email
• sdm_comment_auth
• gravatars (new home: http://zenpax.com/)
• impostercide
• in-series
• not-to-me
• sdm_moderate_authors
• sdm_spam_check
• subscribe2 (new home: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/)
• vhost
• wp-cron (obsolete in WordPress 2.1+)
• wp-db-backup (new home: http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup)

Comments so far:

1. Joe 2007-04-17 21:00:00

   I'm sure that someone has probably asked this before. You found a problem with WP / the developer(s) and gave up on WP? Why not try to fix the problem find a solution and blog about it? :-)

2. skippy 2007-04-18 01:29:12

   Joe, I did write about my problems with WP / the developer(s). It is my opinion that the things that are fundamentally broken with WordPress are things that can't be fixed with patches. It's more an issue of behavior and attitude than it is specific problems with the code. That's not something I can fix directly.

   I also wrote about why I think Habari will be better.

3. jared l. 2007-05-10 14:10:15

   thanks for the previous contribution towards the community.. good luck!

4. Richard Schroder 2007-08-04 18:15:58

   If no-one before said thank you Scott Merrell for your earlier pro bono support then let me say it now.

   Good show.

5. David Spencer 2007-08-12 22:40:50

   Hi Skippy:

   I'm new to Wordpress so I am just following links from plugins I might install.

   Thanks for your word on Wordpress.

   I wish you the best with Habari http://www.habariproject.org/

   David Spencer in Canada

6. David Spencer 2007-08-12 22:44:22

   Hi Skippy;

   In your "About" page, you mentioned

   "I have travelled to 16 countries in the world."

   I hope you've had the opportunity to visit Canada.

   David Spencer in Canada
   http://www.davidspencer.ca

7. Maria 2007-08-25 15:49:56

   Well, we're all missing you. I really hoped you'd change your mind. But THANKS for all your work on WordPress and good luck on your new projects.

   And remember, if you do want to come back to us, we'd love to have you.

8. Scott Carpenter 2007-09-04 10:53:25

   Hi, Skippy. Is Impostercide licensed under the GPL? I would have guessed "yes," but the php file just says Copyright 2005 Scott Merrill.

9. skippy 2007-09-04 12:11:04

   Scott: yes, Impostercide is licensed under the GNU GPL v2.

10. Scott Carpenter 2007-09-04 14:53:03

    Great -- Thanks! (And thanks so much for all of your free software and free culture work -- I'm looking forward to following Habari development.)

11. Mrs Bumblebee in Wort und Bild » Wordpress-Plugins 2007-09-26 13:39:53

    ... Dieses Plugin informiert über neue Wordpress-Releases. So entgeht dem Admin kein Update mehr!
    Wordpress Database Backup: Da muss man nicht viel zu sagen. Man kann dieses Plugin benutzen, um die Datenbank zu sichern. Die ...

12. sergio 2007-09-28 08:59:53

    Hi Skippy,

    I write from Spain, so that... excuse me for my english!

    I use Wordpress 2.1.2 and I want to send future pings with my programated posts. I know that I've to use the wp-cron plugin, but you say that it's obsolete in WordPress 2.1 and more! Is there any plugin to do that in this version?

    Thanks a lot!

13. skippy 2007-09-28 11:34:57

    sergio: newer versions of WordPress include a new cron system, which makes my plugin obsolete.