Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

1. sa752 ◴[12 Jan 25 04:57 UTC] No.42671388[source]▶

Again, the problem with forking WP is wordpress.org. yes you can setup a new plugin/theme repository.

The problem is how does someone who owns a plugin on .org validate their ownership on the new repository?

2. gitaarik ◴[13 Jan 25 05:59 UTC] No.42680502[source]▶

Well, you can ask them to upload a particular file with a particular key to their plugin on WordPress.org. That way you can prove you have access, and you should be allowed ownership of the plugin on the fork.

3. mysidia11 ◴[13 Jan 25 08:57 UTC] No.42681445[source]▶

>>42671388 (TP) #

The existing plugin list typically list the author name with a link to their homepage for each plugin. One method would be for someone to scrape and cache the existing plugin list along with each known plugin author's contact/home page information.

When authors sign up for an account on the new site: have the signup process provide the user a "hash code" to insert anywhere they want into the HTML code or as a HTML comment or header on their homepage to confirm author access to the plugin page on the new site.