roadchild

Nevermind got it.

Grr, first sentence should be

Diesel it is very clear now what the intent of the enable nag was/is now.

Diesel it is very clear now what the intent of the enable was now.
I’ve finally weaned my client off this plugin and apparently in the nick of time. You will note that there are many people posting issues and that Michael hasn’t responded.
According to that upgrade link to stop the plugin from annoying you, Michael says it’s the most downloaded plugin and that is likely true, he doesn’t say why. It is downloaded because he constantly releases new versions even if there is just a minute change. So his download count is skewed in an incredibly insidious manner and now he is attempting to profit from it.
There are many other SEO plugins out there that have honest authors who support their product in the spirit that open source was developed on.

Since his website goes on and on about him being a disabled veteran, he should know, my dear deceased father was a disabled veteran Marine who served 3 tours in Vietnam and he would be ashamed of Michael trading on his status.

Abandon hope all ye who install this annoying plugin.

The plugin author chimed in on the post I made about the same issue 2 months ago. He provided a link to a poll asking how often the plugin should be updated which really wasn’t what I was asking about, but you should all go and vote.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/309015?replies=13

*crickets*
I think you hit the nail on the head.

Since you’ve never come across the scenario maybe you should refrain from commenting on it? Just a thought.
I was complaining about having to configure the plugin everytime he updated, hence I linked to the version history. If there weren’t updates every day in a row sometimes, it wouldn’t be nearly as irritating. It should have been clear if you know the plugin and you read both of my comments. You clearly misunderstood me. It says ENABLE on his plugin page, hence I used enable, which confused you, but not the other people. So I clarified for your sake.

Will I release it to the public, probably not because it would be an alteration of their theme and not a plugin. But should I write something for wordpress that I deem worthy of releasing, I would do so and I would do it without begging.

It’s probably worth noting that the author has seen this thread and he never bothered to answer the original question
“Is there a genuine reason we have to go in and enable this plugin everytime we update?”

Perhaps it’s not clear, I don’t care if he updates the thing every 5 minutes, the issue I have is the message that you have to configure the thing again. I apologize for using the word “enable” in my original post, though it seems most people knew what I meant.
Wordpress automatically disables then renables the plugin when it does the auto update.
My issue is the configuration nag at the top of the admin area. You are nagged till you go and check to enable the plugin (which wordpress already enabled) even if the update had nothing to do with the configuration.
Perhaps the poll should really be, how often should we make you configure the software if nothing in the configuration has changed. My vote, never.

@stormrider, thanks for letting me know the donation won’t help. You’d think he would nag the people that donated, less.

@rsciw, I am not whining about the updates, if that’s not clear, please take the time to read again. My issue is that It nags you after EVERY SINGLE UPDATE. Also, I don’t choose to use this plugin, I have been clear, its a site I help. I would NEVER use this thing on my sites.
> You can always go out and code your own, see how you fare.
Oh I intend on talking to the board and seeing if they will be okay without this plugin if I write them something to accomplish the same thing. So no worries, I will make sure they, as well as I fare well without it.
You don’t like me complaining, you could always just move along and ignore me. See how that works? The angle doesn’t fly with me, thanks.

Edited to add
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Well it seems the author who decided to post a poll that really had nothing to do with my original question, knew what I was talking about since it was posted in his feature request section back in July.
https://semperfiwebdesign.com/forum/all-in-one-seo-pack-feature-requests/auto-enable-after-upgrade/

I should request that he nag less and use a larger font with flashing colors to make you notice his donation request, I don’t think highlighting it and adding bold is working.

Yeah well maybe if there wasn’t a new update everytime I log in.
https://semperfiwebdesign.com/documentation/all-in-one-seo-pack/all-in-one-seo-pack-release-history/
I guess I just expect more from a “Senior WordPress Developer”
If a donation will stop the nagging it would be good to know so I can donate on the non profits behalf.

Congrats on the new baby Alex!

Thanks so much Alex this is really going to help control disk space consumption!

Okay you rock, we are smushing now! What was wrong?

Sorry for the delay in responding, computer meltdown took me out of the game! ??
Downloaded and installed and a same line error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_put_contents() in /home/rmcrorg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-smushit/wp-smushit.php on line 282
Could it be a conflict?

I contacted my webhost about which version we’re using and while also supporting PHP 4 this was their response.
root@ares [~]# php -v
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: Sep 23 2008 23:29:40)

So could the issue be something else?

Okay thanks!

Ahh thank you!