[brador]

Interesting article.

Makes me wonder how many Wordpress plugins are rogue. I have seen a few plugins on the Wordpress site that are suspect, but there is no way to report them to anyone at Wordpress, there is no report this plugin link anywhere. Anyone know how to report plugins on the Wordpress site?

[Doyley]

I've not seen an Wordpress ones, although I have heard of them. I happened to stumble across the Joomla one.

I know Wordpress have a user rating system which is pretty good in my experience.

[brador]

The problem I find is most users who leave a rating don't read the code, just the features. Ratings can be faked too...

[Doyley]

Yes, this is true. Nobody really knows how many of these contain elements that should not be there. I can't think of a concrete way around it that's realistic. But I think user ratings on an official site are a good thing and are normally fairly accurate.