Just saw you post and felt that I had to offer my two cents. I have used this plugin on all of my sites for a l-o-n-g time with no problem whatsoever! Have there ween issues? Absolutely, BUT when the problem was traced to it’s root cause, the theme support folks, the other plugin folks or the Timely support folks have done outstanding work helping me resolve the issue.
I would suggest that if you consider the almost infinite combination of WP and plugins – keeping in mind the various versions of each of them, it amazing that they play together as well as they do.
Well, Dave, I have tried it with just one plugin more than once and it still hosed my plugins, as a web person, I have cleared out all plugins and started with just one at a time to find which one is causing an issue. And there was not just one but lots that All in One could not interact with, nor were the updates to the all in one plugin very good as they also caused the plugins section to disappear from the wordpress theme until I deleted it. I would love for this thing to work better, I really, really like the look and options for it, but I refuse to beat my head against the wall trying to make it work with the other items I most often have to use when building a website with wordpress.
I can’t fault you moving on to the Ajax Event Calendar. Actually that is kinda’ funny because I went the other way. If you ever get the time, try the All In One plugin with a different theme. I can honestly say that when you get everything to play together, it will be well worth your time.
I have tried it with different themes, at least 6 that I can think of, and it wasn’t the theme at issue, was the interaction with different plugins. And since I can run all the other plugins together, usually without issues, ones that I feel I need for a particular site, it comes down to the issue of I need these 5 or 6 plugins to work together vs using All in one with no other plugins installed and not having the site work the way I need it to work. Like I said, I like it as a stand alone, and if it weren’t so buggy I would buy a license for it, but not as it works or rather doesn’t work now.
And since I get paid to build these sites, I cannot have them quit working anytime I have to update, my clients expect things to work and be running properly without constant issues.
I cannot argue with your logic. I’ll just say that I run AI1EC on three websites along with up to 23 other plugins and they all run 100%. When you get some time, try the plugin on a simple testsite.
Good luck.
