Refreshingly useful and unobtrusive

  • This plugin reminds me of the glorious early days of WordPress. People were eager to create plugins and share them because it was fun. These days even the free trails seem to require premium subscriptions. Not so here. I needed a plugin that allows me to show different menu entries based on a users login status, and this simply works. Out of the box, it worked immediately, with no spam or obtrusive messages to buy premium. I was able to set menu entries to be visible to logged in people, and other entries to be visible to logged out people. A simple thing implemented elegantly. It doesn’t hide its core features behind a paywall. It just… works. Amazing, really. After two weeks or so of using the plugin a little message appeared and asked very nicely whether or not I’d consider leaving a review.

    I have deleted plugins in the past for suggesting such things. There are SEO plugins that entirely take over the Dashboard, or user manager plugins that have you fill out a survey before they’ll let you disable the plugin! Enraging!

    Not User Menus. It works too well, it leaves me alone, it doesn’t demand my money, and when it wants my attention it asks politely and quietly.

    TL;DR: Recommended.

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  • Plugin Author Daniel Iser

    (@danieliser)

    @pmckane – By far the coolest & most accurate review we’ve got yet. Much appreciated feedback.

    I think with this one we focused on making it blend like it belonged there naturally. It definitely seems we hit the mark based on your review.

    I highly suggest you check out its companion plugin Content Control.

    I will say though, and I hope its not to your disliking, but we do have some premium concepts for this in the early planning. Even so were committed to:

    • Make the free version better and more capable, more reliable, more integrated, including support for the new block menus.
    • Pro will add additional functionality that not everyone needs, but some will find super valuable, such as ecommerce integrations.
    • Pro will not be blasting notices everywhere, probably some subtle (and filter removable) text links in the context of the editor where they actually make since. Such as “Need rules for WooCommerce purchase history, Try Pro ( ! ).” which would likely only appear if we detected WooCommerce was installed at that.

    User Menus likely won’t need a full page for settings like other plugins, but your free to check out Content Control v2+ and see how we mention the upgrade paths only where appropriate.

    Thread Starter pmckane

    (@pmckane)

    Fantasic! Thanks for the feedback.

    I’m installing Content Contol. I have absolutely no issue with premium plugins at all. I’ve been a developer myself for a very long time and I’ve sold my fair share of custom software, some of which for WordPress. A programmer has to eat just like everyone else.

    Content Control does indeed look like something I’d be making use of. I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Thanks for letting me know about it.

    <3

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