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)

... 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 ...

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16 Comments

On Apr 18th, 2007 at 01:00am Joe added:

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? :-)

On Apr 18th, 2007 at 05:29am skippy added:

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.

On May 10th, 2007 at 06:10pm jared l. added:

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

On Aug 4th, 2007 at 10:15pm Richard Schroder added:

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

Good show.

On Aug 13th, 2007 at 02:40am David Spencer added:

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

On Aug 13th, 2007 at 02:44am David Spencer added:

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

On Aug 25th, 2007 at 07:49pm Maria added:

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.

On Sep 4th, 2007 at 02:53pm Scott Carpenter added:

On Sep 4th, 2007 at 04:11pm skippy added:

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

On Sep 4th, 2007 at 06:53pm Scott Carpenter added:

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

On Sep 28th, 2007 at 12:59pm sergio added:

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!

On Sep 28th, 2007 at 03:34pm skippy added:

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

On Jun 27th, 2008 at 04:59pm Andly added:

Hello Skippy,
does the wp-db-backup plugin works with the new cron system in the version 2.5?

Thanks anyway for the great job

Andly

On Jun 30th, 2008 at 12:16pm skippy added:

Andly: I don't have a clue whether wp-db-backup works with the latest WordPress internals. I've not used WordPress in quite a long time.

On Sep 21st, 2008 at 02:18am John added:

Skippy I'm brand new to Word Press and I can readily see that you were a very valuable component to things here. I too want to add my thanks to all the others for what you contributed. I don't know if Word Press has a back-up feature. I'll have to research it. But I do know that valuable folks like yourself should be more appreciated. Good luck in all that you do. Maybe someday the Word Press folks will reach out to you again with a different attitude and approach. Folks like you are hard to come by and they know it!

On Sep 17th, 2010 at 03:38am Nitin added:

Skippy,

It's sad to see another plugin developer move away from WordPress development, but hopefully it's for the best. Habari isn't as popular as the common blogging and CMS systems out there, but your involvement with the project should take it there. All the best with your new adventure!

-Nitin