Bad experience, No support, Request for refund unanswered

I had a look at the extension for one of my projects. BuddyPress although a great free extension is really outdated when it comes to code so I thought I will try something new.

I bought a license for bundle pack and started integrating the extension. Unfortunately, it seems like v2 which is recommended for new websites seems to have quite a few issues. Some of the paid extensions have quite dangerous security holes as well as free extension itself have few questionable parts. The Older versions also seems to be affected.

Coding experience. although at the start seemed a lot better than BP, after short time becomes a nightmare. Functions to for example send a message require you to set global variables and clean them afterwise. Instead of using wp rest api, they implement their own ajax api. Functions are using wrong PHPDoc structure so the static analysis is out of wack. Documentation doesn’t exist.

Security. They don’t have proper security processes in place. Github issues are not good place to comment on security holes, which I was advised to do in support ticket. This same comes to creating pull request (till accepted vulnerability is public).

Code have quite a lot potential, but at this moment it requires a lot of work. I don’t think v2 fixes a lot of issues and due to lack of plugin updates, it seems t be taking a step back.

• This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by maciekpaprocki.