Why is WP inserting Material into My Blog?
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Quite by accident, I discovered a WordPress Writing Tag page inserted into the middle of one of my posts tonight.
I’ve left it there for the time being, but I am quite displeased. Why are they inserting material into my blogs without permission or notification?
You can see the post here: Reading, Writing and Thinking: A Paradigm for Blogging
I have seen nothing in any of the terms of service that allows WordPress to modify the content of my blog. Any explanation?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi. That image is hosted on varnishgal.com, a website that has nothing to do with WordPress.com. In fact, it’s not even a WordPress.org blog.
However, I noticed that you hotlinked several times a separator image from that website.
There. I’m just reporting the facts. Make what you want of it.
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Oh wait. This gets better. The name that shows up in the “About the writer” section of your blog is the same as the name under which varnishgal.com is registered (according to a Whois query).
And you thought WordPress.com put that image there…
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Contact staff right away, and change your password. It could be nothing, but it might be something.
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What are you talking about? Varnishgal.com is my own site, where I host my photos – an ftp server associated with my own web page. And I am not talking about the header image, I am talking about the page that clearly says “Tags: Writing” with the wordpress logo about three paragraphs down the page.
I have been hosting my photos from varnishgal.com since I started at wordpress over two years ago. I am not hotlinking from someone else, I’m paying good money to maintain a separate site for my images.
Just the facts, indeed.
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airodyssey – I would prefer that you stop hurling charges around in a public forum.
I am as serious as anyone around here about copyright issues, and to be quite frank, I find your tone completely unnecessary.I am just furious.
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@shoreacres: Sorry if I offended you.
The image in question (http://www.varnishgal.com/writingblog.jpg) is hosted on your own domain name. But yes, contact staff if you are certain you did not insert it yourself.
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The URL of that image is http://www.varnishgal.com/writingblog.jpg and it is hosted on your own site. WordPress didn’t put it in there, you did somehow.
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Thanks rain – this is a real mystery. But, I’ve changed my password and will sort it out from here. Nice to show up on the writing tag page, anyhow.
airodyssey – No problem. I was a little upset to start with. Now I’ve got to figure out what I did. Much better that I caused the problem, even if I don’t know how I did it!
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Now we’ve solved the whole mystery.
It was NOT wordpress that did it. I did it. I’ll not bore you with the details of how I managed to do it because there’s no glitch that would affect anyone else.
I do propose blogging rule #593: Geriatric bloggers with a history of memory lapses should double and triple check every single assumption before griping publicly in a forum.
Thanks, all. ;-)
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