As part of our effort to create a better understanding in the WordPress community of the handling of security by the developers of plugins through our new Plugin Security Scorecard, we are trying to collate graded plugins from the same developers. That turns out not to be easy with some of the most prolific developers and it appears intentional on the part of at least one of them.
Awesome Motive doesn’t appear to have a good reputation in the WordPress community. That is to the extent that people are willing to mention their name. There is what could be called a toxic positivity in the WordPress community, where only positive things are allowed to be said. So Awesome Motive is often mentioned without mentioning their name. Here was someone willing to name them when talking about one of their many problematic behaviors. [Read more]