Annoying Advertising

  • Resolved Ward

    (@yward)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hello there,

    Thank you for the useful plugin. Your plugin started showing a presistent annoying advetisement after the latest update, your update changelog shows “Refactoring and fixes” while it also adds advetisement.

    “Worried about conversion rates?😟 No worries,🥳 Install Simple Sticky Add To Cart For WooCommerce to increase the conversion rate of product page.”

    The dismiss button for this notice does not work and it’s an annoyance, I had to manually search my entire code base for the lines to find out which plugin was causing this and then manually remove lines 399 – 421 from the file: class-code-widget.php

    As you can imagine having to edit core code in a live website isn’t the best solution, I’d appreciate placing such changes in your changelog so that if we’re to update we’re prepared to make necessary fixes, if any.

    I do not mind subtle advertisement to help support plugin authors, but presistent advertising that cannot be dismissed is a bad choice.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Sharaz Shahid

    (@sharaz)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @yward,

    Thanks for reporting the issue about the advertisement. Yes, You are right it must be dismissable. We will fix it ASAP.

    Stay Safe!

    Plugin Author Sharaz Shahid

    (@sharaz)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Tested it is dismissable.

    Thread Starter Ward

    (@yward)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your response and quick action, I had manually commented out the code prior to your comment.

    Regardless, thank you for taking the time to look into it, keep up the good work!

    EDIT: I do not see any new versions uploaded to wordpress SVN, if you’re fixed something kindly push the update so everyone can enjoy it.

    I would assume it’s an issue with nonce if it was really intended to be dismissable, you can start looking there.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Ward.
    marceldarvas

    (@marceldarvas)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Sharaz,

    I’m not sure, this notice is still appearing after dismissing it many times

    Thread Starter Ward

    (@yward)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    For anyone who finds this, I believe you can send a report to plugins@wordpress.org since author falsely marked this as resolved while his plugin did indeed infringe the guidelines. Pretty sure un-dismissible advertising admin notices is against the plugins guidelines.

    Anyhow, I personally uninstalled the plugin and coded a small snippet alternative for my own use.

    Just leaving this here for anyone who looks up the issue.

    Plugin Author Sharaz Shahid

    (@sharaz)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @yward,

    Apologize for the notice issue. Before we have tested it was dismissable. let me check again. 4000+ users using code widget. We don’t have to receive any message about this issue. Don’t worry. I’m going to check it again. I will reply to you ASAP after checking.

    Plugin Author Sharaz Shahid

    (@sharaz)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @yward @marceldarvas,

    class-code-widget.php Line No 390 notice code You can check we are checking if notice already dismissed then don’t show it. When someone clicks on dismiss button Line No 321 handles the dismiss action. I again tested the dismiss functionality. I’m not seeing the notice after dismissing the notice. May be due to some other plugin issue your notice not removing. We can fix the issue but we need some additional detail please submit the support at https://solbox.dev/support

    Stay safe!

    kneeke

    (@kneeke)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    I have the same annoying add for weeks now, can click what I want but it keeps comming back. You must not forget that of that 4000 users not everyone will create an account to complain about it.

    Plugin Author Sharaz Shahid

    (@sharaz)

    3 years ago

    Hi @kneeke,

    I already tested many times not able to produce this case and notice always dismissable. We need some more information for debugging can you submit your issue here https://solbox.dev/support/.

    Stay Safe!

    Thread Starter Ward

    (@yward)

    3 years ago

    I did create a sandbox to help you debug the issue. and it works as intended if it was only WordPress, woocommerce and code widget installed.

    The issue does appear to be a plugin conflict, something about wp-nonce failing. While I do not currently have the time to debug this further, I’ve ran into this issue with other plugins before and how we solved it together was by changing how you track the dismissible action.

    It’s a low priority issue I’m sure since it shouldn’t affect every one. If you have a github repository with the plugin, please link it I’ll perhaps send you a pull request to fix the issue (keeps the advertisement by make it dismissible without conflicting with other plugins).

    Regards,

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