[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28105: Feature (with patch): allow system-wide inclusion of code

[WordPress Trac]

#28105: Feature (with patch): allow system-wide inclusion of code
---------------------------+------------------------------
 Reporter:  DavidAnderson  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins        |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close          |     Focuses:
---------------------------+------------------------------

Comment (by DavidAnderson):

 Hi Denis,

 That method with $wp_filter seems to give me what I'm looking for - thank
 you.

 I can't speak for others, but for myself, being able to register
 specifically WP actions and filters is interesting because WordPress is
 covering the majority of sites that people want to put onto shared hosting
 currently. It's WordPress that the bad guys are hammering with their brute
 force attacks, etc. And, of course, code that hooks into WP's filters for
 failed logins, or robots.txt, etc., isn't going to run in another CMS, as
 far as I can see - i.e. PHP that deals with an IP address of a failed
 login (or 100 failed logins, etc.) isn't going to be portable across
 different PHP applications without modification for each application.
 (Obviously it's portable once you've got the data that "this is a failed
 login", but that's the interesting bit - and as I say, it's WP that the
 automated attacks are against these days, because of market share.
 Targetting even number 2 (is that Joomla?) isn't anything like as economic
 for them).

 Anyway - so, that unofficial method works. That's good enough for me to
 use. I'd still be in favour of an official method, but I'm happy to stop
 advocating for it now and to leave it to others, as I've given my view.

--
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28105#comment:10>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform