I hadn’t updated this plugin for a while, and some items disappeared when I did. So I assume they have been moved from the free version to premium version sometime in the past. I had my site window open as well as the administration tab open simulateously. I updated the plugin, when I refreshed I saw the section get shorter and some items disappeared. I have uninstalled the plugin now. I can’t give you the exact details, so short of trauling through a wayback machine to spot the differences, which I don’t have the time or inclination to do. Maybe the worst rating is a bit harsh, but I was not a happy bunny at the time when it happened. I get snippy when developers depreciate their free version software to entice you to go for their paid version. The WordPress environment is open-source there’s a lot of competition. This is a small (utility type) plugin and the premium upgrade cost of $20 annual subscription is disproportionate for what extra functionality that buys you (and I think this is temporary reduction from normal $28). I feel this is in the league of a $5 subscription type plugin. Adding extra icons is not really adding functionality. As stated above the built-in WordPress widgets – “Social Icons” has most of your premium icons available for free. This is not the way to monetize your plug-in adding in some real extra functionality like hovering over the icon to view a snapshot the social media page something like that is real value. If this was something like the scale of Woocommerce with masses of functionality built-in I could see the justification for $20 subscription cost. Most of this functionality is already built in WordPress. I was only being a bit lazy installing it in the first place and the animation of the icons was eye-catching. Anyway, I don’t like having too many plug-ins because each one can be a potential source of instability, performance hog or security risks. I made a silly mistake here in that I didn’t download a copy of the earliest plugin I originally had (I normally do this) that I could have reverted back to it. BTW I am not carrying on this conversation any further, I have spent way too much time here responding. Let’s both agree to disagree.
