Dear socialdude,
Being in IT myself, I know all our difficulties and I have an extra span for our community. I see us as peers. The plugin itself, your design is fantastic! But as I started tweaking things around to make it work for my website standards, I started seeing the sneaky pitfalls of your design.
-First, the signup letter goes ONLY to your site. There, you have your own blogs that the user follows, which never gets returned to our own site. Meaning, according to Google SEO standards, your plugin discounts the longer stay on the source site by being redirected to an outside website where the person is rather held back. That’s why I called it ‘stealing’.
-Second, I tried redirecting the signup procedure to my own site by going into the codes. I changed all redirects away from ‘specificfeeds.com’. I was going to leave your redirect address only as a reference, since you are the creator of this plugin and certainly need to be credited for.
The email link continued redirecting me from which I found you have added a non-obvious, I forget the technical name for it now, but it is some encrypted link still forwarding to ‘specificfeeds.com’ site.
-There is an available slot for manually configured social media link in your content management, but the ‘Email’ icon which cannot be moved from the very top (or first), gives the impression that the signup belongs to the source website, NOT to where it is being redirected.
-Then I decided not to waste more time on a plugin that is meant to put up a few social media images and links supposedly linking to our social media sites. I could not deactivate and uninstall it from the dashboard. I went through my FTP platform to remove the plugin. I also read a review that someone else had the same problem with uninstall.
-I wanted to access your rating system, but had to do a turn around through WordPress in order to post.
If you can suggest a way to NOT link the email icon to the ‘specificfeed.com’ site, I would be happy to give your plugin another try.
