via Matt, I'm again subjected to religious blathering in my wordpress install. In the interest of disclosure, I am agnostic. I find the discussion of origin myths, god, or the afterlife to be primitive and irrelevant.
One of the benefits of using open source software is supposed to be the freedom to modify it to meet you needs. But by using SVN to upgrade, I can no longer hack core files without making upgrading far more painful. All it takes to fix this is an option to not syndicate this crap. Or even a hook, so that a plugin could disable it.
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I don’t mind it, it doesn’t bother me but I guess they should have a option to switch it off.
not minding it is one thing. the rest of that page contains information relevant to my blog (dev blog feed, new technorati links, spam moderation link, mybloglog recent visitors).
matt’s continually complaining about the difficulty of getting users to upgrade web-based software. if the security notices weren’t buried in such cruft, it would certainly be easier.
There are hooks, and plugins can and do disable it.
there are plugins that completely replace the dashboard, but AFAIK, none that simply disable/replace
planetnews. i don’t see anything relevant in the listRead wp-admin/index-extras.php. You can filter each feed individually.
[absurd personal remarks removed]
after googling around, searching /extend/plugins, and digging in trac, i finally figured out what you were talking about.
this changeset will be a part of WP 2.3, which will make it nice and easy to switch wp-planet to something else. it’s a fine addition, but not relavent to most people running SVN, who use either /branch/2.2/, or /tag/2.2.1/
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