Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver...
by csomar on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:56AM
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I used to work in this WP field and I can confirm your story about this industry clients devs. I have one more story:
Back then (maybe still possible now?), if you have a custom plugin named "abc" but which is not uploaded to wp.org repository, I can upload a plugin with the same id "abc" to wp.org, bump the version and WordPress will suggest to update the plugin. This will replace the real plugin with yours. I voiced the problem to the WP guys but they seemed cool with it.
Back then (maybe still possible now?), if you have a custom plugin named "abc" but which is not uploaded to wp.org repository, I can upload a plugin with the same id "abc" to wp.org, bump the version and WordPress will suggest to update the plugin. This will replace the real plugin with yours. I voiced the problem to the WP guys but they seemed cool with it.