• Resolved Exavior

    (@exavior)


    I just paid $60 for the “pro” version of this, and to be honest, I’m WAY past angry with you. First of all, I have to manually download and update the pro version rather than just install through WordPress directly, like all other “pro” plugins, what’s up with that? This is horrible, hacky, and NOT professional.

    Right now I have the plugin settings for “implementation” set to “Ajax” and the post has the settings set to “Ajax” and yet I frequently see the next button for page 2 (when on the first page) listed as http://www.mysite.com/mypost/2/ which is NOT the AJAX implementation… so the whole page reloads. Then it tries to use AJAX after that point to go to http://www.mysite.com/mypost/2/#3 which is not a valid option… basically page 1 almost never behaves as AJAX, but after that the pages behave as AJAX but are broken due to page 1 improperly linking to page 2.

    Sometimes it the next button works as http://www.mysite.com/mypost/#2 which IS the AJAX implementation, but only some of the time, and it seems random when it does and does not work.

    And if you are on page 2 and try to navigate back to page 1 I get a 404 error and see it tried to load http://www.mysite.com/mypost/#mypost which does not work…

    I’m testing all of this in incognito tabs, so caching and cookies is not an issue, just your code.

    This plugin is a mess. It is not reliable to use in larger professional applications, so I’ve just wasted several days on a BIG project dealing with this. I’m in a bad position now because I chose to go with your plugin.

    I also noticed that the CSS settings don’t work properly… even if I leave the “If unchecked, no styles will be added.” box unchecked the CSS files for your plugin still load… so no matter what if I have the “pro” version and use 1 of your navigation styles, all styles load.

    How can you justify charging $60 for something that is so broken and can not be managed as a proper WordPress plugin for updating?

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  • Thread Starter Exavior

    (@exavior)

    I’d like to upgrade, but don’t see a clear way to do that with the “premium” version. It has no link to download the plugin, just the 3rd party plugin manager. I need to get this updated and working ASAP.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Fahad Mahmood

    (@fahadmahmood)

    If you are using a FREE version then you will see settings page, right top, “Already a pro member?”

    Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/rydlng

    Alternatively you can check the very first e-mail in which you have a link to download the copy. Please try that else reach me through the e-mail so i can help you better.

    Thread Starter Exavior

    (@exavior)

    I downloaded your automatic plugin installer since there is no other clear way to update the “premium” plugin without relying on old email links, which does not work for a company of our size. But there is a serious problem! The automatic update plugin appears to update the plugin without user interaction or approval. We need to test any and all plugin updates in our development branch before they are allowed into production, as any bug with a plugin could cost us thousands of dollars an hour if pages go down or it creates other conflicts. Please fix the updater so it can be manually triggered.

    This is massively concerning because the latest update required me to define new settings that did not exist in the previous version of the plugin, like the new “Default post navigation” checkbox. Until I updated those plugin settings our post navigation was broken. That means if the auto-updater executed without permission all posts using the plugin implementation would have been broken. Scale that problem up to us eventually having hundreds of posts on multiple sites, and you can see how that would be a serious issue.

    For now I am going to have to deactivate the updater plugin and activate it when we wish to update things, to prevent it from updating our production environments without permission.

    The plugin settings page still says to use “nextpart” to split pages, but the WordPress visual editor is designed to only allow 1 “nextpart” in an article. So I’m not sure why you rely on that, as it’s not something people can actually do. Not every company is going to have people editing articles via the code view to add page breaks, there’s a reason WordPress has a standardized visual editor.

    That said, I updated our article to use the default page breaks and it appears to work.

    Updating the plugin automatically also blew away our CSS changes. It would be ideal if the plugin did not make additional HTTP requests for CSS files and let us use our own styles. Now we have to overwrite your styles with our own, which doubles the CSS and we still have an extra HTTP call, which slows sites down.

    You do have the setting “Use Stylesheet? If unchecked, no styles will be added.” but that does not apply to the pro themes selected from the top dropdown menu, and there is no option to not have a theme.

    I appreciate your responses and efforts to update the plugin. I’m glad we could get things working, and hopefully it will continue to improve.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Exavior

    (@exavior)

    I’m now seeing the following alert in the plugin settings page:

    “You’re using <!–nextpage–> instead of <!–nextpart–> in 1 posts and/or pages. Do you want to implement the patch now? It will convert nextpage to nextpart and this plugin will work fine for these posts and pages as well.”

    So you don’t have it working so the standard page splitting is properly supported? Again nextpart is NOT a valid option in WordPress as the visual editor supports ONE per article. Otherwise authors would need to edit their articles in code view, which is not practical.

    New bug: in your latest update “JavaScript Function on Slide:” appears to no longer work. This is currently preventing us from launching our first project using your plugin. Issues with the “premium” plugin have already delayed us by around a month, so I’m hoping you can fix this ASAP.

    Thread Starter Exavior

    (@exavior)

    Any update on the new bug with “JavaScript Function on Slide” not working after updating to the latest plugin version?

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