poor implementation

First of all: we have not tested this plugin with themes or plugins for WordPress. So it may well be that it works well with wordpress-stuff.

We wanted to use this plug-in to validate the licenses of our software.
The way this plug-in was programmed is really miserable. The programmer obviously didn’t want to over-implement a single line of code and decided for the most trivial of implementations.
For example: there is a value for ‘expires_at’ and a value for ‘valid for days’. But both fields exclude each other instead of the plugin is calculating the other value. So on the client side you first have to check which value comes back and then of course you have to implement two checks, one for each possible value.
The plugin obviously does not perform any calculations, but only transmits static data from the database. A well-made plugin, where the programmer also thinks about the implementation, would return a calculated value for ‘days_remining’, regardless of which value was entered in WordPress.

We purchased the pro-version but will give this plug-in up now. The example I described is just one trap you fall into when you have to query the API response yourself.

• This topic was modified 2 months, 4 weeks ago by lazy4.