Almost there

Please note that in one of the recent updates, if you are logged in as admin, you can sign up other users from the public side sign-up form via a live search function on either first name or last name. Start typing a name, select one from the autocomplete options, and then that sing-up will be attribute to the user ID of the user you select. So, that function is already there, but just not on the back-end.

Your gripe with the plugin is more of a feature request, so feel free to post it in the feature requests section of my site. I can’t please everyone, and I’m not trying to. This plugin was designed for my son’s grade school PTA site several years ago, and there have already been many more features added than what we needed at the school, and since my son has moved on to another school, and I no longer manage the site, I do not personally use the plugin for any of the sites I manage. I offered it here as a free plugin to the WordPress community in hopes that it would help others.

It’s open source, so I gladly accept code contributions, and have already had some recent features that were added by contributions from other developers, so feel free to submit your own code for consideration if this does not do everything you wanted.

The whole reason I developed this plugin to start with was because I could not find something that fit all of our needs for the PTA web site… this plugin is a branch/fork of another plugin that I started with that was closest to what we needed. It is now heavily modified with many different and additional features. But, there is simply no way that I can anticipate (or even want to) every feature that every possible user could want, so it seems weird you mark down the review to only 3 stars just because it doesn’t do one specific feature that you want.

OK… but seems like you are confusing “feature request” and “review”, and you contradict yourself by saying you love the plugin, but only give it 3 stars simply because it doesn’t do something in the exact way in which YOU think it should be done (where, in fact, you can, as admin, sign up other users… already a feature of the plugin).

That’s the equivalent of me saying that although I love WooCommerce and use it for many sites that I develop for other clients, I should give it a bad review because I often have to do some custom extensions (such as my Wholesale Ordering extension) to add some features that it doesn’t already have.

There is simply no way that a developer, like myself, can, or even should, try to put in every possible feature they can think of (or that is requested)… it’s simply not possible.

However, a review like yours that says “Almost There”, leads others to believe there is something wrong with the plugin, making it non-functional. I can understand a bad review if my plugin crashed your site or caused compatibility issues with something else, or threw out errors, or simply didn’t function the way it claims, but that’s not the case here.

But, hey, it’s a free plugin that I make absolutely no money off of, so I shouldn’t take offense, and I do appreciate (and take into consideration) all feedback and feature requests. You are certainly free to try to find something else that has all the exact features laid out exactly the way you want them… but, to me, sounds like the only way you’ll get that is by spending a significant amount of money to hire someone to develop a plugin to your exact requirements.