Paid Plugins, Spam

  • A lot of the plugins that I downloaded wanted some kind of payment to unlock some options. They all so added spam to my WordPress. Well this is just pissing me off. You need to setup some thing in the plugins page to add plugin types. (Categories Types) Paid, Free and Subscription and so on. I going nuts here looking for a plugin just to download it and to find out that most of the options I want are disabled unless I pay for it.

    Until this option gets added or will get added. Does any one have some ideas on what to do about this. I didn’t want to spend the next few months downloading plugins that cost money or added spam to my pages. The descriptions don’t contain the info if they are free or paid and they should.

    And ideas. Will be great, Thanks
    Joe

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  • If you have these kinds of problems with a specific plugin, please contact plugins [at] wordpress [dot] org with all of the relevant details. Please ensure that you are not just looking at plugins that connect you to a 3rd party hosted service as www.ads-software.com does not impose any constraints on charging for 3rd party services as long as the plugin itself is free.

    Thread Starter bigjoe11a

    (@bigjoe11a)

    Ok, done. That’s what the one contact plugin did. From vcita. It wanted me to get a free 14 day trial. I even created an account on there web site and didn’t know it. I thought I was on my web site. It asked me for the email address that would be used to send messages from the form. When I clicked the submit button. It registered me on there web site.

    The other problem is that I didn’t know that some of them require a payment. I had to pay for the plugin. Well if wordpress is free. So should the plugins. If they offered services for some business web sites running wordpress. Then I can see where they would charge for it. I’m sorry. I just don’t think the plugins should cost money. Unless they offered some services for wordpress users.

    The last problem was the nags. When I installed some of the plugins. On the admin section. when I click on the plugin to config or set them up. I saw nags, wanting to me pay and so on.

    Thanks for the reply.

    Well if wordpress is free. So should the plugins.

    They usually are but the 3rd party service that they connect to may not be free. Not everything WordPress related is always going to be free.

    The last problem was the nags.

    If you have a look at https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/about/guidelines/ (Point 7) you will see that we do not encourage nags or advertisements in plugins. Again, if you feel that you have come across plugins that do not conform to these guidelines, then please let the plugin team know via the email address above. We really do appreciate your feedback on these issues.

    Thread Starter bigjoe11a

    (@bigjoe11a)

    1) That’s what I mean. If they offer service for that plugin. Then there should be some cost or payment due. What I mean is that if we don’t want their services. We shouldn’t have to pay for the plugin to unlock the options.

    2) I did. the 2 plugins I did download. Have one on my 1st page that loaded. and the other one had nags all over the admin site page. That was the form builder.

    Thanks again

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