Sad what has happened to this plugin

  • I’ve been a user of this plugin for years, but sadly have decided to turn it off just now due to the odd change of course it has taken. Once upon a time it was a simple but effective plugin to implement social share buttons on your page. It did exactly what it was designed to do quickly and easily and without any issue.

    HOWEVER, in the recent months something called Readygraph has been added to it. At first I figured that wasn’t a big deal – I don’t have a Readygraph account so it shouldn’t do anything, right? WRONG. I’m getting some sort of ‘review this site’ popup showing on my site asking people to rate my site. Looking at the code it’s coming from Readygraph. I’ve never authorized this to be on my site, and since I don’t have a Readygraph account I’m not sure how I’d ever be able to view or manage my reputation built there. This is a HUGE change to the user experience on my site that I did not approve.

    I did go to the Readygraph website to see what this is all about, and not only does it sound like a horrible product, but it’s of course a paid service… BUT they are too cool to post their fee structure up front – they force you to create an account before sharing that ‘privileged’ information. Sounds shady – just like how this plugin snuck this in to my site…

    Further more, I see that a Google search box is a new option of a ‘social button’ that can be added. Well I should say IS added. This feature was added to the plugin and was auto-checked. Not cool – I didn’t approve this change to my site. Yes I did update the plugin, but I assume when I update a plugin I get the new code release, not new features I didn’t approve added to my site.

    I really don’t like leaving negative reviews, but if something rubs me wrong I feel it’s my duty to inform others that this once great plugin has pulled the rug out from under me…

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  • Thanks for posting this!!! I was stumped trying to figure out where the “Rate my Site” popup had come from and I’ve been desperate to remove it. You’ve solved the mystery for me. Thank you!

    Have you noticed this plugin also now puts random “Google Custom Search” boxes throughout your site. Took me DAYS and a complete WP overhaul to find the culprit. Ugh

    PromInc – do you have the edit to turn off the search boxes?

    Thread Starter PromInc

    (@prominc)

    I am an admin on my site and could turn off the random Google search boxes.

    However I’ve gone one step further and turned off the entire plugin. The way I see it, the developer doesn’t have the same vision or ethics as me and this I don’t want to utilize this any longer.

    I am not a huge fan of social buttons already to be honest… I know every best practice article says they need to be there, but Facebook in particular does slow down page load time, and looking at the stats from this plugin, no one uses the buttons on my site.

    For now I’m going without. I’m quite certain there are other plugins to do the same that I may explore some day… But for now my page looks much better without these ugly seldom used buttons.

    Plugin Author tanaylakhani

    (@tanaylakhani)

    We apologize for the issue caused to you and your users. There were bugs in the code at start, due to which popup was showing where it shouldn’t. Monetization is additional feature and we have corrected the code so that it becomes purely opt-in feature. And the same goes for readygraph. It will work only after you connect to readygraph. If you find the readygraph functionality not suitable for your needs, you can simply deactivate readygraph. The latest version of the plugin resolves all such issues and it is purely opt-in service if you wish to connect.

    Also, let us know if there are any issues, bugs, suggestions. We are always improvising.

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