Title: Disabled functionality in plugin
Last modified: November 28, 2016

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# Disabled functionality in plugin

 *  [clickharder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clickharder/)
 * (@clickharder)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-functionality-in-plugin/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev/)
 * (@wpmudev)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-functionality-in-plugin/#post-8487801)
 * 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?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev/).
      Reason: Correcting myself. :)
 *  Thread Starter [clickharder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clickharder/)
 * (@clickharder)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-functionality-in-plugin/#post-8488775)
 * #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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clickharder/)
 * (@clickharder)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-functionality-in-plugin/#post-8488781)
 * 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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