I don’t like leaving negative reviews, BUT…
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… the plugin had a nag notice up pestering me for one, so I have to call it as I see it. The first thing is that I agree with the review by dannydanny; this doesn’t seem to give you the ability to limit posts by people who aren’t members.
But that aside, the description of the Plugin was:
“This plugin adds above the comment box an active letter counter, word counter, and comment counter, that provides a user constant visual access to their input activity”. I did not see ANY of those. (5.5.1–en_AU, Twenty Seventeen theme.) But what I DID see when the plugin was enabled was that the [Post Comment] control had completely vanished from the page. I’m guessing that it can still be seen by bots since the endless Russian spam postings have continued unabated, it was only humans who did not have access to the button. As soon as I disabled the plugin, the button came back. As soon as I reenabled the plugin, and refreshed the page, it vanished again. (I had windows open in Firefox, Chrome and Edge to check that this wasn’t a browser issue.)With the plug-in active, I couldn’t even see the button when I was logged on as an Admin.
I have to again agree with dannydanny; if I give someone an account then it implies that I trust them to not abuse the privilege. THEY aren’t the people that I need to put limits on, and as far as I can see the plugin doesn’t give you the option of limiting non-members. That being the case, I would not have a need for this plugin, and will be uninstalling it once I post this.
I didn’t rate it as 1 star out of malice, but the tool tip over 2 stars says “Works”… and if the [Post Comment] button isn’t even visible to an admin it’s really hard to say “it works”. Yes, it stops comments… but in my experience it stops ALL comments that aren’t done by spam bots, since the commenter has no way of posting the comment.
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I take back what I said about not liking leaving negative reviews, and had I read your similarly thin skinned reply to DannyDanny (even though he gave you a 4 star rating) before I wrote the one above I wouldn’t have soft-pedaled at all.
Your plugin is, in my view, functionally useless for the reasons that I stated. Who, exactly, needs to limit people who already have an account from posting? NOBODY owes you a pat on the back or a gold star for generating something that does nothing of any practical use. The fact that it is all caps FREE only means that people are paying what it’s actually worth; in my view, nothing.
And as for “clearly it is conflicting with another plugin, not the theme. If you had any skillsets as a WordPress builder or developer, this would be obvious”, I don’t HAVE any other plug-ins aside from Akismet, and if your ingenious little plugin doesn’t work with THAT then that says a lot about your “skillsets” as a plug in developer. Of course, I would expect a CAPABLE plug in developer to actually ASK for more information about the environment to see what the conflict is, but clearly that’s of no interest to you; only being told how great you are is. By 40 users. Wow, 40. Most of which probably don’t even have the thing enabled.
Get an education on how to deal with other people, you need it. But don’t worry, I’ll happily give any of your code a wide berth in future, and recommend that anyone else do the same.
And incidentally, if you can’t deal with reviews that are less than glowing then check your ego at the door and stop putting up nagging requests to insistently demand that people give you one. Which, I note, a whopping 7 out of your massive 40 users have done. Had it not been for that I would have just deleted the thing and you’d never have heard from me.
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