The strength of WordPress is in it’s ability to be customized through the use of extensions (plugins and themes).
The WP247 Extension Notification System provides a standard interface for WordPress extension developers to communicate important information about their extension to their extension users.
The Settings page provides you with complete control over which extensions the WP247 Extension Notification System will communicate with and which notices will continue to be displayed.
The WP247 Extension Notification System will display notices until they are dismissed. The extension developer assigns one of three dismissibility types to each notice they send:
Regardless of the dimissibility setting chosen by the extension developer, you can permanently dismiss any notice by clicking the Permanently Dismiss link at the lower right of the notice or by checking the checkbox next to the notice title in the WP247 Extension Notification Client‘s Settings section.
Use the Settings page to control how the WP247 Extension Notification System operates on your site.
Site-wide Extension Notifications
Checking the Disable Extension Notifications for the entire site checkbox will stop the WP247 Extension Notification System from checking for new notices and from displaying any notices that have not been dismissed.
New Extensions
As a security measure, by default, new extensions are disabled from using the WP247 Extension Notification System. You may opt-in to allowing new extensions to be enabled to use the WP247 Extension Notification System at the time they are activated by checking the Automatically enable Extension Notifications for new extensions when they are activated checkbox. Otherwise, each individual extension may be enabled or disabled as you choose by unchecking or checking the Disable extension notifications for… checkbox within the individual extension’s settings.
Individual Extension Notifications
Each plugin or theme that uses the WP247 Extension Notification System is listed in the Individual Extension Notifications section. For each extension you can:
Occasionally, the WP247 Extension Notification System will contact participating extension’s servers in order to see if they have any new notices for your review. The only data sent to their server is the ID of their extension, and the last time we contacted their server. As an example, the WP247 Extension Notification Client‘s extension id is wp247-extension-notification-client.
Rest assured that the WP247 Extension Notification System does not capture any information about your site and does not send any information about your site when servers are polled for new notices.
In addition, you can control which extensions that use the WP247 Extension Notification System may or may not be enabled to participate in issuing you notices.