WordPress Releases Plugin to Unblock Censored Sites, The Pirate Bay Included
As internet censorship is being applied in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and several other countries where internet providers are blocking access to The Pirate Bay, WordPress comes with a simple solution by releasing a plugin, allowing you to create a proxy site, thus being able to visit blacklisted websites.
The plugin, called RePress, is developed by the hosting company Greenhost, and allows anyone who has a WordPress blog to start a proxy for sites that entered ISPs’ blacklist, including The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks.
“By adding this plug-in to your WordPress website it will start functioning as a proxy and uncensor any blocked website you’d like,” Greenhost explains.
“The only thing you’ll need is a WordPress website and the ability to install new plug-ins. After that you can maintain a list of websites you’d like to keep open freely available on the web.”
If SOPA or PIPA become law one day, the plugin may be used by US citizens as well.
“We hope people outside Holland use the plug-in to uncensor piratebay.org, as it is in danger of being blocked in our country after a court-ruling. In the Netherlands we could then uncensor websites for people in oppressive regimes like Iran, Syria or the US after SOPA is passed.”
“[SOPA and PIPA] are said to defend the interests of the Entertainment industry, but will mainly cause grave and undeniable damage to the Open and Free web and all of its users: from the end-consumer to the cutting edge developers and inventors. Our aim is to make this impossible,” the Greenhost team notes.
RePress has been praised by several political figures, including European Parliament member Marietje Schaake.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for human rights activists and a solution for people who face technological censorship and repression,” she told Webwereld.
If you feel like downloading the plugin, visit this link.
Joomla – Matching Created date to Start Publishing date
Matching Created date to Start Publishing date ?
Problem :: When I save an article, I need the Created date to automatically match the Start Publishing date the user set while writing the article. How can I go about doing this?
// no direct access
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
jimport( 'joomla.plugin.plugin' );
class plgContentCreated_Modified extends JPlugin
{
function plgContentCreated_Modified( &$subject, $params )
{
parent::__construct( $subject, $params );
}
function onBeforeContentSave( &$article, &$params)
{
$article->created = $article->publish_up;
}
}
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