Open connorjclark opened 1 year ago
Which URL on wordpress.com? On https://wordpress.com/?
Yeah, the home page... but only w/ mobile emulation enabled in devtools.
On desktop, if not logged-in to WordPress.com, I see:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress.com">
I see the same when emulating as Chrome Android Mobile.
(When I'm logged into WordPress.com I'm redirected to the admin backend of a site I manage there.)
When I look at an actual blog hosted on WordPress.com, like vintageportland.wordpress.com, I see the same generator tag. I'm actually a bit surprised that "WordPress.com" is the generator rather than the normal "WordPress". Nevertheless, both would seem to work fine according to the current library detection logic:
When I run that logic in DevTools, it is resulting with a version
being "WordPress.com"
.
So that would seem to be working correctly?
Perhaps there is an A/B test? For me, on desktop hasWPIncludes
is true (the other is false); but under mobile emulation hasWPIncludes
is false. There is no wlwmanifest
file for the mobile load (<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="//s1.wp.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml">
)
Oh, I passed over those parts of the test
:
I'm somewhat surprised those conditions are part of the test
. Someone can turn off the WordPress API, and thus hasAPILinkElem
would be false
. Similarly, a theme doesn't necessarily include any scripts or stylesheets that load from wp-includes
(especially if an optimization plugin is processing them).
Also, it turns out that the wlwmanifest.xml
link is deprecated as of 6.3.0 (the next stable release) and will be removed from WordPress core. So it is expected that this wouldn't show up in the future:
<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="https://example.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml">
So the link[href*="wp-includes"]
selector will increasingly become unreliable for WordPress detection going forward. WordPress.com usually runs bleeding edge WordPress (pre-stable), which is perhaps why it is not showing up there now.
I suggest that the hasAPILinkElem
and hasWPIncludes
conditions be removed.
It looks like originally when the test was introduced (2ab612aac3772b926908d7eb612d271ff8b7a386), it was checking for the meta[name="generator"]
tag or the page having a script
/link
that mentions wp-includes
. This was then changed in a8a627667670e40016af987af6bc5bbfe27e5a69 to make it a both/and condition. See https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome/pull/131#pullrequestreview-210916940.
Pull request in question: #131
For wordpress.com, which I assume it built using wordpress... this library fails to detect it.
cc @housseindjirdeh @westonruter