Why force additional plugins and themes?

  • I get you are trying to make the plugin more streamline but forcing a plugin that could cause issues with the current theme, builder and other plugins is barbaric.

    Leave the theme to be an afterthought rather then a forced procedure to allow the plugin to be used. Also you could create a page theme without a builder and hard code it on the tool you originally built.

    Not sure who approves these on the development side but choices like this will surely loose you installs and leave a bad taste on here.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by poppydev.
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  • Hi @poppydev!

    Thank you for choosing WP Maintenance Mode and for sharing your feedback with us.

    I’m sorry that recent changes don’t look helpful for your use cases.

    We have made changes in the recent version of the plugin to make the user experience better and give more flexibility in customizing the maintenance page, as you can now use Gutenberg editor or a page builder to easily customize the page and select a pre-created design or create your new custom one.

    The extra plugin (Otter) is only needed if users want to use any of the pre-designed templates that are created with the help of this plugin. In case you do not want to use the pre-design templates, you can remove the plugin and continue using WP Maintenance plugin without it.

    The last thing is that if you already had the WP Maintenance Mode plugin installed before, you can opt-out of this change after the update of the plugin and keep everything as it was before (You see the Migrate button that could be clicked to switch to the new version and you also have a Rollback button after that in case you want to switch back).

    Thanks for understanding and have a nice day!

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