Caused more problems than solved

My team really liked the use of the WP Delicious plugin, even going as far as purchasing the Pro version for a client project. However the plugin has caused many issues to the point where we are reevaluating its use and instead build a recipe component from scratch.

As others have noted, the dev team has been very responsive but ultimately the software is problematic.

With software updates I am always nervous something new will break on the site. On item I found this past week was that the plugin had a property for the CSS box model set using body * {} that was removed with the latest update. This caused unexpected layout issues to appear throughout the site.

The big problem is the plugin is conflicting with Varnish server caching, most likely from using session variables. This causes the site load time to be 8-11 seconds instead of the fraction of a second when the plugin is disabled. A lot of time has been spent debugging and identifying the culprit for caching issues, and unfortunately this plugin is to blame. I’m not sure is spending more time trouble-shooting the plugin is worth the sunk cost.