Title: Version 9.0 breaks everything
Last modified: December 9, 2017

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# Version 9.0 breaks everything

 *  Resolved [ldeschenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldeschenes/)
 * (@ldeschenes)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/)
 * Your new version 9.0 has very good improvements
    BUT **The “Design changes for
   overall support functionality using your own design for support page.” breaks
   everything.**
 * The whole point of using a WordPress Plugin is to be integrated in your site.
   
   Your new GUI do just the reverse.I want my Customer to stay in my site (that 
   is question of corporate image).
 * I did applied the upgrade and had to restore my site to the last version.
    I 
   will not be upgrading for now and wait to see if you restore an integrated GUI
   to WordPress. If not, I will not have the choice to change for an other Plugin
   as it is not recommended to stay with obsolete plugin.
 * As for the new paid options, I would be glad to pay for them but not with the
   new GUI.
    Hope you find a way to make the new GUI an option (to be used or not).
 * Again I like your Plugin but I am sorry to say that you are going to lose many
   of your 10,000 users that rated you 4.5 stars if your persist into that new GUI.

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 *  Plugin Author [Pradeep Makone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pradeepmakone07/)
 * (@pradeepmakone07)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9767825)
 * I understand the concern and of course some users will not accept this change.
   But this step was taken to work with any WordPress website.
 * Below are few advantages of this:
 * 1.
    We want to improve this plugin so that it will be great alternative for expensive
   third party services. To do this, front-end features will need some big files
   to load to give first class experience. This may trouble main website to load
   slow if we go with shortcode method. By going this way, neither we load theme
   parts nor website load our files and both work smoothly.
 * 2. There may not be any design conflicts with the website at all.
 * 3. There may not be any conflict with any other plugins.
 * Even though we are not using theme, there is possibility of adding menus to redirect
   customer to place you want ( rather you can clone your main header menu by creating
   same menus ). Colour of the header back-ground can be customised with custom 
   css so that it look like your website up to some extend.
 * Those who want to go with this will need to compromise the fact that support 
   page will not use their theme but looking at advantages, it should not be a problem.
 * For us, plugin work with all WordPress installation without issues is more important
   than work on few installations. This solution bring this change for us.
 *  Thread Starter [ldeschenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldeschenes/)
 * (@ldeschenes)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9767863)
 * I do agree with you that this version has many advantages.
    But I would like 
   both the advantages an GUI of my website.
 * Let see if it is only a “few installations” that do not like this change.
    If
   I would be you I would not have gamble on that. Wish you good luck!
 *  [alexwebermedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexwebermedia/)
 * (@alexwebermedia)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768429)
 * This is the worst decision you could’ve made. Bring back the integrated version
   or at give us an option to enable or disable the new GUI. My team and I worked
   hard to integrate the plugin within our site using shortcodes and now you messed
   it up with this update.
 * The site integration was the ONLY reason we chose this plugin over other options.
 * Do you even realize how hard it is to get website members (we have thousands)
   to get used to this change? Do something to fix this and do it now!!!!!
 *  Plugin Author [Pradeep Makone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pradeepmakone07/)
 * (@pradeepmakone07)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768508)
 * Hello guys,
 * I am looking to the options if it is possible to load theme header and footer.
   I’ll get back here within 2 days to confirm.
 *  [dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * (@dhjdhj)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768679)
 * WTF? Support Plus has just stopped working on our website — how to I get it going
   again?
 *  [dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * (@dhjdhj)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768681)
 * The page that used to display tickets now just shows
 * [wp_support_plus]
 * in it?
 * How do I fix this? NOW???????
 *  Thread Starter [ldeschenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldeschenes/)
 * (@ldeschenes)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768732)
 * [@dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * I had same problem.
    Only way to go back is to restore your site prior to plugin
   update.
 *  Thread Starter [ldeschenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldeschenes/)
 * (@ldeschenes)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768747)
 * [@pradeepmakone07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pradeepmakone07/)
 * Pradeep,
 * While your are looking into it…
 * The important thing is to get the customer(member) interface integrated with 
   the website.
    The agent, supervisor, admin interface is less of a problem as 
   these people are internal staffs. If your could just give us back the Shortcodes[
   wp_support_plus_create_ticket] and [wp_support_plus_all_tickets] usage, that 
   would do the job.
 *  [dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * (@dhjdhj)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768753)
 * Yep — fortunately I have a great plugin called Updraft (and I just bought the
   Pro version to support him) that had the old version of the plugin which I was
   just able to install and it works.
 * Then I found a plugin that can be used to selectively block updates:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/)
 * Installed that, blocked WP Support and I’m up and running again.
 * Next step is to find a replacement for WP Support — it’s absurd that the developer
   thinks it’s ok to just break your system.
 *  [dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * (@dhjdhj)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768768)
 * I’m afraid that when it comes to this kind of software (where dozens of customers
   suddenly can’t reach us due to this blind kind of breaking), I go along with 
   the motto from Asimov’s US Robots
 * “Nobody makes the same mistake twice. They’re fired the first time”
 *  [rhysewest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhysewest/)
 * (@rhysewest)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9768889)
 * Well, I’ll agree – completely disregarding the site’s design elements in this
   update is pretty lame. Back to in-line styling, please; or at least an option
   to enable it.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [rhysewest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhysewest/).
 *  Plugin Author [Pradeep Makone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pradeepmakone07/)
 * (@pradeepmakone07)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9769082)
 * Hello guys,
 * We apologies for the inconvenience being caused to you.
 * I now have come to decision that we will create three shortcodes as suggested
   by [@ldeschenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldeschenes/) for customers:
    1. Create Ticket
    2. Ticket List
    3. Open Ticket
 * New interface can be restricted to support members only (agent, supervisor, administrator).
 * We’ll try to complete this by this weekend or as soon as we can.
 *  [viotto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viotto/)
 * (@viotto)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9769301)
 * Hello,
    as I am a user and customer myself, I agree with the other users opinions
   about having the option to integrate better into website theme. Otherwise what’s
   the point of getting a WP plugin instead of going with a dedicated support website.
   The header menu is the most important thing, along with being able to easily 
   change background and buttons colour, with some dedicated options.
 * Thank you for your hard work,
 * Best regards
 *  [viotto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viotto/)
 * (@viotto)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9769429)
 * Hello,
    I am a user of this plugin since more then 1 year (thank you for your
   work!) and yesterday I decided to upgrade to v9.0 and purchase the full addon
   pack.
 * I have got some urgent problems with the new v9.0.0.
 * Aside from the website style integration issues (already reported by other users):
   
   1. Email notifications don’t work anymore. Only the customer gets emails for 
   tickets creation and replies. Staff doesn’t’ receive any mail when customer create
   tickets, even if they are checked in the recipients of email notification settings.
   Agents are automatically assigned on ticket creation, but still don’t receive
   any reply.
 * 2. Having to confirm each time we post a reply or change status is annoying. 
   Please give an option to add/remove confirmations
 * 3. Trying to close ticket from ticket form does not work. It works only from 
   tickets list.
 * 4. The lack of website integration in v9 causes problems also in the Sign Up 
   buttons. I had to manually edit header.php file to redirect to make SignUp button
   redirect to my custom signup page.
 * 5. Reply emails that customer get are not displayed correctly. The strings inside
   the brackets {} are not formatted.
    What they get is:
 * {reply_by_name} ({reply_by_email}) wrote:
 * this is reply text body…
 * Please solve these issues, because for now we have been forced to revert to old
   version v8, even if I was happy to purchase the full new pack to support development.
 * Thanks
 *  [dhjdhj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhjdhj/)
 * (@dhjdhj)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-9-0-breaks-everything/#post-9769561)
 * Just for the record, I care much less about how well or not the plugin integrates
   with the theme. I care a hell of a lot more about the plugin failing to work!

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