It works very well – Even for free!

I am starting in SEO/Web design consulting. I’m starting on an extremely tite budget as I lost my job in November and haven’t gotten my first client yet.

I’ve had to pick and choose which tools to use the free version and which to purchase. I would love to use the pro version but I can’t afford $45 a month right now for the full wpwebdev package, as good as a monthly price that is for everything you get, (half that is more than I can handle monthly right now.)

When it comes to WP downloads and whether I choose free or paid I use the following criteria…
1. What is the amount of downloads in comparison to similar plug-ins.

2. what are the reviews and the rating levels (unfortunately users are lazy and stingy – they get a great product for free or low cost and it works great for them but they don’t bother to review it which isn’t fair to the developer(s).
This developer has a more active and appreciative user base than most -2,622 total reviews, 2,302 of which were 5 star ratings. while the ratio between reviews and downloads sucks (booo lazy users) the ratio of 5 star to 1-3 star ratings is fantastic and quite frankly as bad as the ratio is – over 2,000 reviews is pretty rare for WP plug-ins no matter how great the product is or how long it’s been great.

3. Review comments on support for both paid and free.

4. How often the product is updated.

5. Has the product been upgraded and verified to work with latest WP version?

6. I start everything that has a free version and if it runs well without crashing my site, I’ll make the distinction between free and paid if it has a paid version based on 1-5 above

Based on 1-6 Smush is a great product and while I wish I could afford the pro version… the free version deserves 5+ stars.

Honest review from a user who is a non-developer and non-employee/representative of wpmudev