Wordpress Plugin Thief

If you are found a wordpress website with some plugin that you think it would be suitable for your blog, this is what you can do.

verify blog address (http://www.url.com/blog or http://www.url.com)
add wp-content/plugins/
you will be able to see something like below
Now you have to use some common sense in finding the plugin you are looking for.
If you don’t know, just copy each php file and search for it in google.

for example here is the famous John chow plugins:-

http://www.johnchow.com/wp-content/plugins

NOTE: you will not be able to download them directly from their website because the server will compile the php into html file before sending to you.

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kucau - July 3rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
ermm, is this some sort of loophole?
8dee - July 4th, 2007 at 10:06 am
i don’t think is a loophole…you should be able to protect the directory…but anyway can only view the file in their plugin folder, and you can’t actually download it.
Iz - July 4th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
You can ‘hide’ the directory by placing a blank ‘index.htm’ in the folder.

Yes, it is a loophole.
8dee - July 4th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
ahh…thanks for the information.
Iz - July 4th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Heh Wahlau I am more personally fond in your previous theme.
satkuru - July 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
gosh, that’s a good tip. i am already adding index.html in which ever folder that doesn’t have it
8dee - July 5th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
yup…indeed it is..i have added them too
Hiding Wordpress plugin & themes - July 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
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aad_lfcfn - July 18th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
nice info. I never realized this before that I think I’m going to use index.html method to protect my download folder after this.. -_-!

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