I was coming here to say the same thing. I think that this is a great plugin, however this notification/advert needs to be removed immediately.
The worst thing is that there a “Dismiss Notice” button, but that only get rid of it for that page load; When you refresh or navigate elsewhere the advert comes back.
Please release an update and remove this functionality.
Wenn das so bleibt, werde ich das Tool deinstalieren
I disagree—a plug-in that has not had a pro price increase in 12 years, that never has prominent ads (and was carefully back-compatible when major style changes were made), and that is giving advance notice of an increase so that those who are considering upgrading can avoid a $14 increase deserves a prominent display. To be fair, I have not signed into my site a second time, so it may pop up again, but the discount is only for a few days, so in a week or less this will be gone. I have been using the free version for about 5 years, none of my groups need the pro features (I will share with one group that might have a future need, but it would likely be a few years down the road.)
Anyway, I have no vested interest; just a fan of this plug-in and willing to put up with a little inconvenience for a week or so.
Those who are still getting inundated with this stupidity (especially that the dismiss has no meaning), if you have access to your web hosting where your wordpress files and this plugin sits, edit the following file and line.
Go to <your wordpress install dir>/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/admin directory and edit the file em-admin.php.
Go to line#332 or somewhere above of below it where it says:
add_filter('admin_footer', 'EM_Admin_Modals::promo_popup');
Edit that line and change it to: //add_filter('admin_footer', 'EM_Admin_Modals::promo_popup');
Now when you reload your site’s admin pages, this obnoxious popup won’t appear.
I can understand the need to promote such changes and pricing, but not in such a rude and obnoxious manner.
To the person who disagrees, imagine having someone in your home with a big banner shoved in your face each time you move, turn, take any action. It’s not an inconvenience, it is annoying, disruptive and rude.
Plugin Author
Marcus
(@msykes)
Hi Everyone,
Sorry for the delayed reply, we’ve not been able to keep up with the free support forums recently due to higher levels of pro customers and I was not made aware of this thread or the pop-up issues being this prevalent.
Firstly, let me start by saying that our intention is certainly not to pummel you with adverts! Since 2008 I don’t think we’ve even mentioned the Pro add-ons in our plugin code, only the plugin page on .org. The recent popup was a one-off because we raised our prices for the first time in 12 years and wanted to let everyone know before it was too late.
The logic for the popup was that it’d show up 2x at most. Once on any wp admin page, and then once on EM-specific pages. The first time, even if you just click off the popup so it disappears should have dismissed it into only EM pages, and clicking the dismiss button should have made it go away entirely.
I’m wondering if maybe you’ve all experienced a bug or plugin conflict where the dismissal AJAX didn’t go through and therefore didn’t dismiss the popup? If that’s the case, then I’d certainly see why you’d find this irritating and, in fact, completely agree with you! However, please know that if that’s the case, it’s a bug, not our intention.
