Disabled functionality in plugin

  • clickharder

    (@clickharder)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure how this plugin doesn’t violate the plugin guidelines. Bolded for easy reference.

    5. Trialware is not allowed in the directory.

    Attempting to upsell the user on other products and features is acceptable within limits.

    Upsell notifications should not be overly prominent or annoying.
    Plugins may not contain functionality that is crippled or locked, only to be unlockable by payment or upgrade. Paid functionality must be part of an externally hosted service or a separate plugin, that is not hosted on wordpress.org.
    Plugins may not disable included functionality after a trial period or quota.

    The admin options page includes an “advanced settings” area that is locked, only to be unlocked by payment. The ads at the top and bottom of the page and even the notifications of the pro version are perfectly legitimate upsells but the addition of useless code would appear to violate the guidelines.

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  • Plugin Author WPMU DEV – Your All-in-One WordPress Platform

    (@wpmudev)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hey there!

    The plugin isn’t trialware which I believe is why it doesn’t invalidate point 5, it doesn’t run for a limited period of time before it expires. It continues to run without restriction of the free features as defined on the project page for as long as you wish, we cover the cost of that for a lot of users. All of the compression work is done by our remote cloud servers.

    This is software as a service, both free and paid as covered in point 6.

    We’ve not heard anything to the contrary from the fine people at WordPress.org, if there were an issue we’d be more than happy to address that.

    Apart from this, is there anything else we could do to improve your 3-star rating?

    Thread Starter clickharder

    (@clickharder)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    #5 doesn’t say anything about running for a limited period of time (and that was never an issue I brought up), but it does say (and I bolded it above):

    “Plugins may not contain functionality that is crippled or locked, only to be unlockable by payment or upgrade.”

    The Advanced Settings on your plugin are intentionally locked in the downloaded plugin. I can only unlock them by upgrading to the pro version. How do you reconcile the quote above from the guidelines with the non-functionality of the admin settings?

    Thread Starter clickharder

    (@clickharder)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I did misspeak (write) above.

    #5 does state it cannot be disabled after a period of time but that is irrelevant to the issue with your plugin.

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