The best I have tried – but issues

As far as a plugin with a decent basic feature set, and ease of use for passing on to a client to do updates, I give the plugin high ratings. I tested pretty much every option in the repository. While a some produced results that looked as good as good, they were nowhere near as easy to setup or easy for a general user to update (WPL). IMPress uses the WordPress gallery functions, and custom post types rather than keeping all it’s listings setup within a confusing plugin interface like some.

It produces what I think are the best looking listings by far out of any free option I tried. A list view option would a nice feature as well, but the grid view looks great on mobile and desktop.

While I have received very quick support replies on this forum, they are basic replies and there are no follow ups. While that is better than some free plugins will do, it’s still a little frustrating.

I reported a possible Recaptcha conflict issue in the support forum with their built in forms on listing pages while Contact Form 7 is running with Recaptcha on other pages here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-error-4/ and there was no follow up. I provided details and error codes. You would think a developer would be concerned about a potential conflict with such a popular plugin. The dialog warning I posted clearly wasn’t related to issues with the setup of Recaptcha and it’s keys.

I have also found there to be conflicts with a theme from the WordPress repository (Vantage) and possibly SiteOrigin Builder (running with any theme). Both are hugely popular, especially Builder (support threads created for these too).

Basically, while I received responses, there were no follow-ups answered. Their support seemed to have no interest in the issues I was reporting, enough to even say a thank you for reporting them. Or interest in me sending them any more info about them. The developers of Builder on the other hand offered to take a look as soon as I reported it to them. Developers of popular plugins should show and interest in them being compatible with other popular plugins.

It’s a case of if the plugin works with your theme and plugin setup, you will be very happy. If you run into issues, you are likely going to be looking for ways to fix them yourself unless it’s an issue support can give you a basic canned response for. I know a plugin can’t guarantee no conflicts with other plugins or themes… but I have never came across another plugin that seemed to have such conflicts with Builder, Vantage, and possibly Contact Form 7.

Thanks