False Advertising on the Pro Version

@112502 Please, don’t make any false statements to misdirect users or for any personal reasons, without even using it.

1. Both of the free and pro versions of the plugin doesn’t use the carousel library which you have mentioned.
2. The plugin uses get_posts() function to get posts not use any sql directly.
3. The activation and deactivation functions are placed in the main file. Please, see the wps.php file.

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array(&$this, 'wa_wps_activation'));
		register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, array(&$this, 'wa_wps_deactivation'));

4. You can edit themes files in an upgrade safe way through overrides.

I always update both the free and pro versions to make them better and provide support as best I can. The pro version is only for those who need advance features such as multiple sliders, filter products(related, upsells, most viewed, featured, newest etc. ) and also who need dedicated support.

It’s sad to see people who are not so technically inclined post bad comment or reviews without considering about developer’s time and their contribution.

If you have any questions regarding the pro version, please, contact me directly. I’ll let you try it. So, probably you can revise your review.

Nevertheless, thank 112502 for taking time to leave a poor review.

This is an almost laughable reply from what is clearly a disreputable Plugin author!

1. That’s simply not true, and anyone who looks at it can see that. Are you seriously going to claim that? Then what is woocommerce-products-slider/js/owl.carousel.js? Or its relevant CSS?

2. get_posts() is not called a single time in your plugin. Your plugin makes extensive use of WP_Query(). As I said, when the plugin builds the query, there are no admin options to control how the list is sorted, despite claims and documentation to the contrary. There are several pre-defined queries, such as “Latest” and “Featured,” but they also ignore menu order. Being me, I edited the plugin and fixed that by adding ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’ into the WP_Query under condition ‘featured’ — even though was one of the things that was clearly listed as a “Pro” feature and a reason to upgrade.

3. Yeah, and that function is never called anywhere in your code. I pulled the function wrapper off to make it work — and found that there was no difference, past access to a couple of more themes, and none of the features that were hawked as being part of the “Pro” version. Namely, “The Ability to reorder slides.” There’s simply no such functionality. It’s false advertising.

4. There’s clearly no documentation for this, and there’s no checking anywhere in the plugin for template_directory or stylesheet_directory. In fact, all themes seem to be tied to “plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ )” in the code, so I’m unsure how one might manage to accomplish theme overrides… Past editing them directly, or making extensive use of CSS. Perhaps you can tell people how to do that?

It’s abundantly clear from this discourse that you’re not the author of the theme and have little idea how it works, yourself.

As for my technical skills — sorry, you really don’t know who you’re dealing with if you want to go there.

And, by the way — I really don’t appreciate the lies and abuse you hurled at my personal email address. It’s sad that you couldn’t just refund the plugin like a normal human being.

In general, when someone has a poor free->pro upgrade experience, we allow their review to stand as it DOES reflect on both versions.

That said…

subhansanjaya – Abusing your customers, be it for legit reasons or not, is never how you should present yourself if you plan on being in business for a while.

112502 – Your assessment of the plugin seems a little off.

Then what is woocommerce-products-slider/js/owl.carousel.js?

In the free version, there’s no /js/ folder. You can see at https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/woocommerce-product-slider/tags/1.2.1

2. get_posts() is not called a single time in your plugin.

The author is right, it is: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/woocommerce-product-slider/tags/1.2.1/wps.php#L329

I did a grep of the files and WP_Query isn’t called once…

Are you sure you’re looking at the RIGHT plugin here?