Don’t do it! You have so much to live for!

  • This plugin is built with bad practices that override your site’s CSS, making it impossible to integrate gracefully. If you have anything other than a white or pale background you’re screwed.

    it also includes a huge bar across the top just to say whether the article is new or published, which wastes screen space. Surely they could have put a status box next to the title field or another similar elegant solution; but they half assed it instead.

    Functionally it does as advertised on the tin; but be careful. It allows users to put any – and I mean any – HTML and other code into your WordPress database, making it not so much a publishing tool as a free pass for hacking. It’s like taking a coked up stripper home for your parent’s anniversary; on the one hand there are features you want to show off. but on the other there’s just too much that can go wrong.

    Finally, there are 18 tickets submitted in the past 2 months and only 11 have been dealt with as of this writing. That glacial support doesn’t exactly make one brim with confidence. There’s no brimming here whatsoever. Seething, mostly.

    Long story short, sometimes you come across helpful plugins that add rich features to your site. Other times you get ones that make you back away slowly. Run screaming from this one.

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  • First of all, most of people found this plugin useful. Im using social articles on six sites, since 1.0 version, and I was never hacked.
    You can check the source code, and you will see that the plugins is well coded.
    I don’t know why you are assuming that the plugin is a “free pass for hacking”… You can paste php code on the content field but the code wont be executed… It works like WordPress backend.

    I could see that most of your plugins reviews are negative. I think you should really understand first how plugins work and test them before review so slightly.

    Thread Starter karmatiger

    (@karmatiger)

    You are slow answering tickets, insist on overriding child css, and use up valuable screen space for one tiny status indicator because it makes sense to you and you can’t conceive of someone wanting a more efficient layout – but rather than addressing these concerns you deflect by attacking the critic.

    If you’re going to produce something you must be prepared to accept criticism rather than petulantly getting defensive. Dealing with the concerns, or providing an insight into why they are as they are, is far more professional.

    If you were as quick to address tickets as you are complaining about negative reviews that would go a long way.

    edit: you use the anecdote that *you* were never hacked to say it can’t happen – yet there are users of your plugin complaining of just that.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by karmatiger.
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