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If it is due to the server time, maybe you could have the server time changed so that it works. You would need to find out what they expect the server time to be.

Hello, I checked some of the files that you had uploaded, but not all of them.
You incorrectly state that we were taking profit from something free. We did not and never intended to do so. We always acted within the license restraints even when we charged for it. You registered on our website using completely fake details which is considered to be fraud. While I fully understand that you would want to see what we had, that is not sufficient reason to provide fraudulent details. You know that we sent you an email explaining this and you ignored it, instead of communicating with us, you stripped all details from the plugin and uploaded it as if you were the sole author.
I would have expected an honest person to have openly admitted that they obtained this copy from us, but you did not say that when you replied to the initial comment. However that is really not a big issue, it just adds to the other issues.
If you look at all the other GPL items, you will see that they too use GPL items to create their items and they charge for them. This includes WooThemes, ElegantThemes, Press75, almost every other premium theme I have ever seen and almost every other plugin I have ever seen.

As it stands, I see the following issues:
1) License has been removed rendering the license null and void.
2) Author details have been stripped and you added yourself as the sole author.
3) You stripped the footer of all mention of the original author and us, replacing it entirely with your own details.

I consider the above three items to be rather dis-trustworthy.
You added the plugin to github (since removed) and mentioned it on twitter. Nowhere at all did I see you mentioning the previous authors and it looked as if you were the only author. You have seen our files as you edited them, so you will see that we DID NOT add ourselves as the only author, we paid homage to the original author. While this is not a strict license requirement, we believed that the people who put in effort to make this work really deserved the mentions.

Please correct these issues above and we will happily provide support wherever possible.
As a further item, I would request that you add a link to our support material as it covers every inch of the plugin which we had not seen done before.

In the beginning, we provided “Free Plugin – Premium Support” where the plugin was free and the support was available as free (via wordpress forum) or premium (via our own system). These details can still be found on our website as we never fully changed over. This is how I was notified about this post as I was subscribed to receive updates. I would be happy to continue this, providing both free and premium support as I know some site owners need fast replies and in most cases this does not happen on wordpress forums.

Many other companies take plugins and rename them to try to hide the original source and to prevent issues. We maintained the same name and same structure so that existing wp-o-matic users could upgrade to it without any issues at all.

Here are the original posts we made about this plugin when we updated and released it:
Free Plugins – Premium Support
wp-o-matic released

Hello, as I pointed out, we always ensured that we acted within the restraints of the license. The customers that we had preferred to pay and receive guaranteed support replies within 24 hours.
The license states that one can charge for support (warranties) and/or delivery. Thus, we could not charge for the plugin its self and to be honest we didnt want to. After all, we were charging $19.99 for lifetime premium support or just $9.99 if it was purchased with our other plugins.

Why not follow your initial path of offering the plugin for free and directing users who require support to your website? Other plugins exist that do this very thing, no?

Indeed, this is what we initially offered, but the problem was that customers did not want to pay for the support once they had the plugin. They would then open tickets or attempt to contact us using other means which took up a fair volume of time and money which we should have been spending on other customers. While I personally preferred this method, it resulted in unhappy customers and a series of attacks.
Unfortunately, due to how most people act, it became very hard to provide support to them as they would make all manner of claims that we were somehow breaking the law when clearly we were doing nothing of the sort. This would result in them leaving slanderous claims on other sites which we then had to have removed as it had an unjust negative impact on our business. By changing up front for the support, it prevented this. This is just an unfortunate way that people act and react in given situations.
For example, numerous people have threatened to sue us because we have a free lite plugin and a paid for premium plugin. A number of people thought this was illegal. We pointed out the licenses and showed them that it was not. So they simply stopped replying and went to another website where they could comment in which they fabricated fantastic lies about us, none of which were even remotely true. The time and money we spent having these removed should have been spent on our other customers. Thus charging up front for the support was the only way to prevent this and it was within the licensing agreement, so we proceeded with it. It worked well and we never experienced this type of incident again.

You can look at almost any free plugin that provides paid support and you will see numerous users attacking them, making up lies and even resulting to name calling. This is what we entirely wanted to avoid. I have seen it happen so many times with other developers. Also, there are developers who charge separately for support, but they have abandoned support as well as abandoning the plugin, so you pay and get nothing in return. This may be what has caused the distrust within users resulting in the way they act towards companies charging for support.

I do not mind at all if the plugin is on WordPress, in fact we had already prepared the files for it but had not submitted it.
We added value to the plugin by addressing all the issues. Rrauch has not, all he has done is void the license and remove all author details, claiming himself as the author for all of the coding.

We have already contacted WP about this issue and have asked permission for us to take over the project and provide support at the usual high levels that we provide. I really do not want to see the plugin get abandoned once more. In my personal opinion, I do not think that the current author can be trusted for reasons previously stated.

I would love to be able to take this plugin and make it fly as high as it used to. Presently, its license is (as far as I can see) null and void. A quick comparison shows that they have added a total of 3 lines of code. We added (off the top of my head) hundreds of lines of code to address all the issues.

Our aim when charging was to cover our costs in part and fund future development. I can tell you that we did not make a single cent of profit, we did not even come close to covering our costs. However that was never the issue, we wanted to provide a popular and quality plugin to the general public.

And there you are rrauch. You are aware that we tracked you based on the details you used when you registered. This is how we know it is you.
Can you now please add the correct author details back to the coding as per the license requirements?

Hello, there are two issues with opening links in new windows.

First, we have the coding used within the options tab of the campaign.
I use the following to create the link so it opens in a new window:
<a href="{permalink}" target="_blank" title="{title}">{title}</a>
This way the permalink is inserted into the coding. I assume you are using it differently so that it generates the entire link which would be default and would not open in a new window. We then have the title being generated as the title for the link as well as for the text that is linked.

Secondly, we have the content. What if the content contains a link? You can not set it to open in a new window. I use a plugin for wordpress that allows it to set all external links to open in a new window. This way I know that it is opening all links within the content are opening in a new window and not taking people away from the site.

Here are some plugins I use to help the whole process:

Auto Prune Posts – Automatically removes posts from a category that are more than x days old. This prevents the site from becoming too large. Also, the site I use it on which is OnlineTechJobs.net lists jobs which expire, so I do not want them on my site.

Auto Tags – This automatically tags the posts as imported posts will not normally be tagged.

Open External links in a new window – This plugin does what it says and opens external links in a new window or tab. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can assist further.

Hello, we have fixed all of the known issues with WP-O-Matic. It seems that the developer simply stopped working on the plugin. We have included premium support so that all customers can receive a full reply within 24 hours. http://businesswebsitedev.com/products-and-services/wordpress-plugins/wp-o-matic/