Month: January 2024

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Shadow Person – CD’s Available Now

The new release from Shadow Person, person of interest, is available now. You can pick one up for cheap on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it for free on your favorite streaming service. Check one below:

Spotify

SoundCloud

Tidal

YouTube

Apple Music

Amazon

Shadow Person Bio

Shadow Person, the musical alter ego of Will Chatham, delves into the realms of the shadow self, drawing inspiration from Jungian psychology to the occult. Through thought-provoking songs, Shadow Person explores the depths of hidden emotions, from confronting inner demons to finding peace.

Formerly known for three solo albums, Will Chatham has transitioned into the persona of Shadow Person. With a musical career spanning four decades and contributions to influential acts in Louisville, KY, and Asheville, NC, Chatham has embraced a golden era of home-based production, fueled by creativity unleashed during the depths of the COVID quarantine.

Find Shadow Person on Instagram @shadowpersonmusic, like, and follow!

Stay tuned to more news at https://shadowpersonmusic.com

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All In One SEO Plugin in 2024: Avoid it like the plague

I updated the All In One SEO Plugin on this website today. The next thing I knew, I had two new plugins installed for me, the Monsterinsights and some sort of opt-in plugin called Optinmonster.

Yeet!

I deleted all that shit faster than you can throw a watermelon off an overpass. After googling around a bit to figure out what had happened, I discovered this post that keyed me in to what was going on:

MonsterInsights is Auto-installed
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/monsterinsights-is-auto-installed/

This is a terrible practice I hope no other WordPress plugin developers emulate. If you do, I hope the community shames you into reconsidering your ways.

Why is this so bad? Let me enumerate they ways:

Installing one plugin should never, EVER install more plugins without giving a person the awareness that this is happening! It’s bad form, it’s stealing a website’s resources, it’s stealing screen real estate, it’s introducing unknown risk, and broadening your website’s threat profile without telling you.

Then you get all these banners asking you to set up all these paid connections for these plugins to work. Bad form, again!

The Kicker

To top it all off, after walking through the All In One SEO setup steps, I found an email waiting for me moments later:

I did not opt in for this! This egregious action is most certainly in violation of the US CAN-SPAM laws. I can’t wait to report them. In fact, I will go do that now…

Ok, I feel a little better now.

If you offer a plugin for people to use, you should never assume they want MORE plugins installed, and never grab their email address from their WordPress settings to sign them up for ANYTHING outside of your plugin installed.

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