Free Software Leftovers and Issues
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ProfilePress Rebrands and Repurposes WP User Avatar, Now a Membership Plugin, Users Revolt via the WordPress Review System
Less than two weeks after publishing about the broken user experience of the former Dark Mode plugin being renamed and repurposed, another plugin development company decided to do the same. The consensus seems to be that this is a bad idea. However, the ProfilePress Team forged ahead and repurposed the WP User Avatar plugin.
Instead of a simple, single-purpose custom avatar solution, it is a full-fledged user registration, profile, login, and membership management plugin.
It is now called ProfilePress. But, let’s call it ProfilePress Lite because there is a commercial component where you can upgrade to the actual ProfilePress premium plugin. We need to differentiate the two. Plus, the plugin itself uses that term, at least once, in the admin. -
Elementor vs. Beaver Builder: What You Need to Know
Implementing one of the many themes WordPress has to choose from can be fairly straightforward, however, if you want to customize the theme to better suit your needs, that can get a bit tricky. Page builder plugins, whether it’s Elementor vs. Beaver Builder, can help you create new pages and blog posts for your website and customize your WordPress layout via a drag-and-drop interface and beautifully designed templates.
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The State Of Open-Source Ecosystem In India [Ed: Sadly, this ridiculous puff piece pretends that proprietary software GitHub (i.e. Microsoft) is like the father of everything. The opposite is true.]
GitHub, which has 5.8 million Indian contributors, announced a grant of Rs.1 crore to support India-based open-source contributors
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FreeIPMI 1.6.8 Released
o Fix incorrect sensor read corner case on BMCs that use non-default LUNs (LP#1926299).
o Remove hard coded paths from system config files (i.e. mostly files in /etc). Have paths updated based on options to configure.
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