Violates the plugin guidelines, but it's still a favorite plugin of mine.

  • Ben Meredith

    (@benmeredithgmailcom)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Like others, I am not a huge fan of the “pay me to remove the blue button” functionality, which in my opinion violates the Plugin Guidelines (specifically point 10) and should be grounds for being pulled from the repo.

    That being said, I love the functionality of the plugin, and have seen a noticable uptick in subscribers as a result.

    Remove the ransomware, and this is an easy five-star review for me.

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  • Plugin Author Sumo

    (@sumome)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hey Ben Meredith,

    I responded to your post on the same subject. Happy to repaste it here too!

    Thanks for looking out, appreciate it!

    We actually qualify as “Serviceware”. You can see that listed in the plugin guidelines under #6.

    “Serviceware” plugins are defined as plugins that merely act as an interface to some external third party service (eg. a video hosting site). Serviceware plugins ARE allowed in the repository, as long as the code in the plugin meets all other conditions. These are allowed even for pay services, as long as the service itself is doing something of substance. Creation of a “service” which does nothing but to provide keys or licenses or anything similar for the plugin, while the plugin does all the actual work, is prohibited. Moving arbitrary code into the service so that it can appear to do some work is also prohibited. This will be handled on a case by case basis and our judgment on any given case is final.

    (Point of clarification: A “storefront” is not a “service”. If your plugin merely acts as a front-end to allow its users to purchase product from your systems, then it will not be accepted into the repository.)

    the WP plugin doesn’t add “powered by” links, the service does. Hope that clears that up 🙂

    Glad you like our product and very happy its increasing your subscribers!

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