Javascript disabling: Annoying WordPress quality #1
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I have two major beefs with wordpress.
1. The big one being disabling javascript on statistics counters (like sitemeter, for example). i am deeply annoyed by this. It blocks the vital information that is… the referring site of my visitors. Why is this a wordpress feature? Can anything be done about it? -
JavaScript brought down Myspace* once. It’s better to be sfe than sorry.
*http://namb.la/popular/tech.html
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umm.. yeah, I didn’t understand any of that. It’s not possible to be safe and allow me to see where my visitors are coming from?
I don’t really believe the Blog Stats feature of WordPress. I hasn’t counted referring sites in the past that I know gave me hits. So a feature like Sitemeter is hugely useful, except it cannot show me referring sites. This is blogging-related sad moment.
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This post is relevant to my previous post…I was trying to find a way to add a different tracker because the WordPress tracker was so lacking…
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Yes I’d love to have more detailed stats too. But I understand (sorta) what that hack was about. And WP.com’s strict security policy is one of the features which drew me over from self hosting.
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The use of JavaScript (or lack thereof) is a touchy subject around here. As of right now no JavaScript is allowed on a wordpress.com blog, which not only disrupts 3rd party stat counters, but also keeps people from being able to run non-AdSense ads on their blogs (a *very* touchy subject!).
As far as I can tell, and I’ll try to explain this without being too technical, is that wordpress.com is basically a *massive* implementation of the WordPress MU (multi-user) platform. That’s also why all the blog addresses are xyz.wordpress.com. If the JavaScript you added to your blog was malicious (not saying would would do such a horrible thing) it could in theory take down every single wordpress.com blog. The problem the WordPress peeps are having is finding a way to create a barrier between blogs so that if one person should upload some bad code, it won’t destroy everyone’s blog. The WordPress MU platform doesn’t lend itself to that though. So for now we will muddle on with JavaScript until they can come up with some sort of workaround.
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Thanks tmjm3714. That’s very helpful. But why does blogger allow it. Don’t they face the same problem that you described. Just curious. Thanks, again.
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indian2006 – sitemeter certainly be used on wordpress.com. In fact, the version I was using on a blog here tells me enough that I kept it when I took that blog self-hosted. Somewhere here there’s a thread about it but the search function isn’t functioning too well right now.
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I’m not sure how blogger is set up, but I think it’s more like a shared hosting kinda thing as opposed to wordpress where we’re all like branches off the main wordpress.com site.
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I recently received a e-newsletter from a couple who have been running a web site for almost a decade. A virus was added into one of their pages.. created havoc for not only them but their visitors… they were so broke up they almost shut down the long time web site.
It is very easy to hide malicious code in javascript. an innocent person could grab a cool looking widget from a site and not realize they just entered something malicious into their blog.
those who have free blogger blogs—be careful!
This why i believe (its my opinion) that wordpress.com is safer to have and read a blog than most other sites.
because they are so strict with third party widgets. -
I too was hoping for some javascript, like current local times around the world and weather conditions in any time zone, without the malicious stuff.
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