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I hear you. I raised the issue to you because when I was using the very outdated but still popular “WordPress HTTPS (SSL)” plugin before yours, this issue did not crop up. So while I wanted to blame the author of the WordPress Branding plugin, I couldn’t point the finger definitely there since it worked properly with another force-HTTPS plugin.
Yes it is…I double-checked this before I wrote you.
You got it.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [WooCommerce Local Pickup Time Select] Promising but Several BugsCorrect. I’ve talked to the dev and got it fixed with that exact suggestion. I’ve now changed my review to reflect this.
Could you say which web host you use so others know to avoid them? This plugin should work with the 95% of web hosts who have their .htaccess and/or permissions set properly.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: How Does WordPress.org Monitor for Fraudulent Reviews?Well, this serves as an excellent guide for plugin authors on how to get away with posting fake reviews.
Your first two statements essentially say: A) The reviews here are completely worthless. We host them to waste everyone’s time. B) We don’t understand the relation between a large number of positive reviews and subsequent interest in that plugin.
It seems there is a lot of leniency towards the policing of this stuff. When someone brings forth significant evidence that something not right is going on and you respond that you “definitely” know reviews written as marketing messages are not fake unless the author was dumb enough to get them all written from the same IP, you’ve helped plugin authors beat the system.
Regarding the nag issue, if WP cares enough to lend legitimacy to reviews, why don’t they allow user reviews from within the plugins page? This would help counter nagged reviews by getting a much higher number of legit reviews overall.
Anyway, the author in question makes a point to respond (rudely) to many of the negative reviews posted for his plugin, but mine in particular which raises the evidence and outright call him out on the 5-star reviews as being compensated or faked received no reply. Had it not been true, anyone in their right mind would have defended it. But there doesn’t seem to be any interest in WP following up so I’ll leave it at that.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: How Does WordPress.org Monitor for Fraudulent Reviews?Sure –
The plugin in reference has the following criteria:
– Large number of 1 and 5 star reviews with very few 2-4 (noticeably different spread than most plugins including 20 popular/hot plugins I checked against)
– Over 10% of all 5-Star reviews were posted in the last 30 days, despite plugin being 2 years old.
– Ratio of reviews written to downloads is by far the greatest of any plugin I’ve measured. 10x higher than well-regarded plugins like W3 Total Cache, BBPress, and many others.
– Many of the reviews seem written by a marketing person or employee rather than a real user. Even 5-star reviews point out minor flaws in the plugin. None of these do.
– 5-star reviews are unusually glowing, talk largely about the quality of support, many times vaguely, rather than the plugin itself.
– Previous point is important because support is actually terrible – and the owner routinely berates customers publicly on WP forums. It’s likely the influx of positive reviews are intended to drown out the true support reviews.I don’t have access to data WP mods may such as reviewer IPs, trends, when reviewer downloaded the plugin, etc. This is why I asked how mods monitor this sort of thing. It’s a shame that a plugin with such glaring bugs and horrible support is garnering 5 star reviews every day.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: How Does WordPress.org Monitor for Fraudulent Reviews?How do we report fraudulent reviews anonymously if it’s been going on for a while and mods haven’t taken action?
Just downloaded plugin. This occurs for me too, using latest Chrome.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Relevanssi - A Better Search] Search Produces Double ResultsThank you for straightening me out! I had no idea you could add _sku to search SKU. Works perfectly, thank you!
Do you want me to set one up for you?
Avada has one-click support for UberMenu, I can’t see why they wouldn’t be interested in the same for the most popular 3rd party search enhancement too.
Here’s a good page to reference to review the most popular themes out there: http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=&view=list&sort=sales&date=&category=wordpress&price_min=&price_max=&sales=&rating_min=&platform=
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [My Custom Functions] Plugin took down websiteBasically I had a gettext function ending with this:
add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘ee_change_ticket_messaging_registration’, 10, 3 );
and added a second similar ‘add_filter’ line under it instead of creating the entire function twice.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [My Custom Functions] Plugin took down websiteThanks! As it turns out, I pulled it from the MySQL database. Had to do a little searching but I found it. Turns out there was some errant code. Just so happens your plugin allowed it to go through which caused the issue. So your plugin didn’t cause the issue, the code did. But the plugin’s code-check is not fool-proof so I’ll be more careful.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WooCommerce Poor Guys Swiss Knife] Qty Minimum not enforcedThanks Uh. Much appreciated.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [White Label CMS] Prevent users from deactivating White Label CMS PluginBetter solution –