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Posting a comment with Akismet activated.

Activating and De-activating the “Hello Dolly” plug-in.

Installing, activating and deleting an additional theme.

Visiting the Dashboard login page immediately after installation.

In order to see what information was been sent by WordPress itself, the following user activites were performed with Wireshark running on our test machine and recording all HTTP and HTTPS traffic: Firefox was used perform the tests and was run in “safe mode” (all add-ons disabled) in order to minimise the amount of erroneous traffic captured. The ‘Wireshark’ network analysis tool was used to capture all HTTP traffic sent and recieved by WordPress to/from external sites. Testing EnvironmentĪ copy of WordPress 3.0.5, obtained from the WordPress SVN repository was installed on a local Windows 7 PC running XAMPP as a single-instance setup. The domain name v was used for the site, with an entry in the local machines ‘hosts’ file standing in for a DNS server.

This article details the testing environment used, the testing method employed and the results. In order to see what, if any, information was sent out by WordPress and the popular commercial anti-spam plug-in Akismet to Automattic which is included by default in all WordPress installs, we decided to carry out a few tests. All we wanted to know was – what information is being shared by a default WordPress install? The idea was to keep an open mind on the subject and not cover prior literature. Now, it’s important to note that we had no awareness of the above articles prior to writing this piece, and the links were added in editing afterwards. We knew that WordPress is chatty from previous articles such as Lynne Pope’s on WordPress Privacy, various discussions on WordPress support forums and mailing lists like this, this, this, and this.

Consequently, knowing what information is being sent by the software underpinning your website is important. They have important websites, sometimes with particular intellectual property and information that they’d rather not share with rivals.