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  • as others have said, this plugin is essentially useless until you purchase the paid version

    while i’m fine with commercial plugins, the developer MUST MAKE THIS CLEAR IN THE DESCRIPTION

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    How is it useless?

    Plugin Author jeffrey-wp

    (@jeffrey-wp)

    The free version of the plugin is not useless it only has 1 option less then the premium version. The free version can be used in lots of useful ways.
    And how clear do you want it that there is also a premium version? It’s mentioned in the FAQ and on the screenshots page.

    Thread Starter atomizer

    (@atomizer)

    if it’s so clear, why did i make this thread?

    i wouldn’t have rated it 1 star if it WAS clear that there’s a paid version on the DESCRIPTION page

    it’s useless to me if i can’t use the bulk function

    i have no problem with authors monetizing their work, but it is NOT clear that there is a paid version

    I agree that the information about paid version should be clearer, and on the Description page. As it is, it’s not clear which funcions are available for free, and which are paid.

    MadBong

    (@arthurmilfait)

    hmm i am just passing by. i checked if this plugin offers something more in terms of filtering the media files, than just the option to select one category. but no. in that regard it is as mediocre (not to say useless, but just not to say, because it in reality is useless in that regard, because i am not going to use it for that reason) as all the other free plugins and paid plugins.
    yes even the costly and polished plugins on code canyon do not offer the possibility to filter by multiple criteria (multiple and- or or-connected categories, date uploaded, image width, image height, image aspect ratio, available image sizes, in what directory it is saved, …). and as the shop-administrator for a big webshop i am disillusioned now and pondereing over the question, why such an important feature is missing in ALL the plugins? i have a webshop with 1000s of media files taken over to manage. and the first thing i want to do, is not to assign categories. no … the first thing i want to do is to filter the pile, to find the stuff i want to add to a category. i have seen plugins that offer categorizing immediately after uploading. this is great thinking and very useful and a feature that is also a must. but no one assumed that the matter to categorize is already there. and that it is a lot.

    so i still ask why is that? the two answers are:

    A. that all the plugin authors have absolutly no clue what the important usecases of their possible costomers are (maybe they dont even know what a usecase is – but that is a mean and mocky assumption). the plugin authors code away, building on the foundation of wordpress, adding new, more comfortable features, but they have no clue where to aim at, where the voyage should lead. i bet none of them, also none of the authors of the paid plugins has at least one test customer / power user. a platform that uses the authors plugin on a daily basis for various tasks, managing a lot of media files in interesting scenarios and giving the plugin author feedback, bugreports and feature requests on a regular basis. because if one of them had a test customer, the authors plugin would have abundant filter options.

    and if one would have them, i assume a lot of the available plugins would have them. because the 2nd reason none of the plugins has useful filteroptions is

    B. all of the plugin authors rip of each others ideas and likely each others code as well. … the plugins even look the same in the backend. and i had a look at all the avail plugins on wordpress.org and code canyon. the ecology is that of like 30 plugins authors, which in the first place had an idea for a feature or an idea to make money, then did (and this is a good thing) reasearch about what is available on the market, who are the competitors and what is their offer, then simply copied the features and maybe the code of the competition and if they are good, added some feature of their own, maybe the one, they had in mind in the first place … which iteratively will be added by the other plugins sooner or later, if it is not too much of an effort. all the plugin authors are competiton-oriented and not customer- or solution-oriented.

    and one more thing about money and quality:
    and then the plugin authors try to charge not too much for their software. why?
    well … i see the plugins cost 15$ to 25$. my workday, on the other side costs my employer around 250$. if i have to manually shift through 1000s of media files and categorize them, it will take me several days. this means costs from 500$ to 1000$ and ++ to get a job done, i could do in halve a day or one day – for 125$ to 250$ – if provided with the proper tools. so from a economical point of view, my employer is willing to pay 250$ ++ for a full featured tool. and that is not a hypothetical assumption. my employer IS willing to pay that money. i confered with my employer about the topic of costs/quality vs time. and my employer is fully backing me up, up to several thousands of euros a year spending on software, that helps the enterprise getting stuff done properly. but these plugin authors, who rip each other off, have plugins, who all feater around the same thing, have no vision (if it is not about the money, then a plugin author still has to have a vision, that distincts one from others or at least makes one make good quality), have no idea about business and mostly just see the mediocre competition, have a mindset, which leaves them no other choice than to charge just 20$ for their mediocre software – instead of providing a quality plugin that fullfills every wish of a customer and charging 300$ for 1000$ saved.

    i searched the whole day, and i am fed up and pissed of about what i have seen. and i am posting this to the forum of every plugin i had a look at today. so that everyone knows my opionion.

    ah, and in this special thread i wanted to write:
    this thread is 6 months old and still there is no mention of a paid version of this plugin on the description page. if there was, i would have had a look at the paid version. … just to see that it is as useless and mediocre as all the the other paid or free plugins.

    to me it also appears, that you sir, dont put the link there, because you are afraid to piss off users who are looking for a free plugin. you sir, need to get your priorities right. do you want to earn money or not? od you want to provide visioned quality or not? i am pissed at you, because the link is not there and your paid plugin is as mediocre as everything else.

    MadBong

    (@arthurmilfait)

    hi,

    it is me again. i am sorry for posting this rant/negative-review-comment on your page.

    please remove it, if you can. i will also ask the admins to do it if possible.

    i was in a bad mood and this was a way i blew off steam. there might be some truth in what i wrote, but the phrasing and addresseing it to you in person where i frustrated about something general is not acceptable from a more sane point of view.

    tank you and sorry again.

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