General comment/complaint: get out of my admin panel please

  • Resolved stewardwp

    (@stewardwp)


    5 years ago

    This is really intrusive.
    Pleas for donations in my admin panel?

    I never installed this.

    It assume it got dragged in by some plugin. Now redux thinks I care.
    Now I have a whole section of my dashboard dedicated to redux news.
    Now I get asked for donations.

    wp-admin/tools.php?page=redux-status does not tell me much, except that whatever plugin redux hitched a ride did not create some folder “wp-content/uploads/redux/test-log.log): failed to open stream: No such file or directory”

    Follow the links to redux site and there is no contact and no help. Just pay us or sign up for our newsletter.

    Feels like someone vandalized my home. Now I have this extra chore to track down how it got ahold of my admin panel. Now I have to be wary of any plugin that might be using this.

    Grr

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  • Plugin Author Dōvy Paukstys

    (@dovyp)

    5 years ago

    @stewardwp I am sorry for the experience you are having with Redux. Let me explain what’s going on.

    Redux is a framework that developers build upon. It’s used by millions of sites world-wide. Ads should NOT show up for users unless WP_DEBUG is set to true and/or your developer did not set our dev_mode argument to false.

    You’re welcome to try the https://wordpress.org/plugins/redux-developer-mode-disabler/ which will fix the folly of your theme/plugin author.

    Best of luck to you.

    Thread Starter stewardwp

    (@stewardwp)

    5 years ago

    Thank you for a prompt and helpful reply.
    As you might have guessed, I am a wordpress newb.
    I am exploring the system. I had turned on WP_DEBUG.

    I turned it off, redux billboards went away. Great. Now I know.

    There’s an awful lot to absorb at first, and I’m keen to understand why and which pieces of the puzzle are popping in and out of place. Any hints you can provide on the accordion itself “Why are you seeing this?” would save a bunch of excitement.

    As you see, it is not necessarily that a consultant or author forgot anything.
    It’s not obvious that this panel has anything to do with debugging.

    Your reply is very kind, thank you.

    Plugin Author Dōvy Paukstys

    (@dovyp)

    5 years ago

    @stewardwp we are all WP newbies, no worries at all. I could see how that would be frustrating and we have no intention or hounding people.

    You are also so very right about the website, we need to change the message. We’re in the process of a complete facelift, to be honest. I appreciate your positive criticism. I will work to remedy this in the future. Best of luck to you.

    🙂

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