Alas, I am like the others here. I’ve disliked widgets from the beginning and find them far more trouble than simple hardcoding. The removed functionality means I have downgrade as well.
Also, I’ve tried the [wpp] shortcode in a number of places and have yet to get it to work in any location (including my custom sidebar, footer, and in a post).
While the shortcode seems like a good idea, it doesn’t seem like an over useful feature for how this particular plugin would be utilized. Maybe I’m wrong on that one.
Thank you for your effort and work on creating this plugin, but I am sad that the useful functionality for people that have utilized this plugin is now broken.