rt49andellis

Thank you jberk!!

Thank you for your response. I understand your explanation of being categorized as Serviceware and it makes sense.

It’s not so much the cost or anything like that, it’s the deception felt when a user who frequents the directory comes across a description that’s clearly a misinterpretation of what they’ll be downloading.

A support/forum response that includes the words “We do clearly state on our Plans page…” should not be necessary. It should be clearly stated in the WordPress directory. Again, this is just my own opinion.

To be quite honest, I believe that if your addons work the way they claim to, the price is more than reasonable for the premium services! I also believe that more people would willingly hand over the monthly payment if they weren’t, for lack of a better term, jerked around by the description. Cleverly wording something isn’t the way to gain the trust of WordPress users.

I’d like to offer this as an example of the proper way to inform WP users what they will and will not have access to, without requiring that they go to your website for further details. — https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wysija-newsletters/

Thanks for listening and I wish you and your team all the success in the world.

I agree with the OP. The description is very misleading. When a plugin is found within the WordPress directory, users expect to receive the entire list of features that are given on in the plugin’s description. If something is a premium feature, it should be listed separately and marked as such. Users shouldn’t have to track down your website to read the fine print.

Also, it would be nice if you stated within your description that registration on the Skysa website is required. Yes, I see it in the installation file, but most users don’t read that file until after the plugin is installed and a problem comes up.

Those are just personal gripes, but these are quotes from the guidelines that you must follow when your plugin is in the WordPress directory. I don’t know if they were somehow missed by those who review the plugins or if these things were changed after submission, but I seriously can’t believe the plugin is allowed in the FREE directory.

Trialware is not allowed in the repository. It’s perfectly fine to attempt to upsell the user on other products and features, but a) not in an annoying manner and b) not by disabling functionality after some time period.

Your plugin does exactly this. Not only do you list Chat & IM in the features, but you snatch these features away after a few weeks.

The plugin must not embed external links on the public site (like a “powered by” link) without explicitly asking the user’s permission. Any such options in the plugin must default to NOT show the link.

From the Skysa FAQ
Can I remove the Skysa logo and other branding?
Yes. With Skysa , you can remove all Skysa branding and logos from your bar by purchasing our Pro plan.

The plugin page in the directory should include no more than 12 tags.

I stopped counting after 30.

Please feel free to delete this. Also, no idea how it wound up in this category vs the Hacks category. Probably the same way my title ended up at “Sory” instead of “Sort”. Good grief!!!

You’re most welcome. Thank you for taking the time to come back and let us know it’s working now.

I’m not sure these files will do you any good because of the number of changes I’ve made to the plugin, but you can download the full plugin from
https://cistuff.com/post-from-site.zip

Obviously back up your files first. And careful with unzipping that. It’s not set up as folder in folder.

If you’re going to compare files, you’ll have to compare codes, not lines by number. And, if you’re just comparing codes, ignore the rest of this.

If you’re going to replace your files with mine, take special care to change line 191 of pfs-submit.php My site’s URL is hardcoded in there. (I’ll make no excuses. It’s called laziness. haha)

Also, using my files, your shortcode will need to resemble these examples…

[post-from-site cat='5' mytitle='Title' desc='Your Story']
[post-from-site cat='4' mytitle='Event Name' desc='Event Description']
[post-from-site cat='3' mytitle='Business Name' desc='Tell us about your company.']

cat is your category ID
mytitle is the label for the title of the post
desc is the label for the text box

I used the plugin in so many places that the labels provided for the form didn’t make sense and I needed to be able to edit them.

I believe you just need to change the plugin settings.

Post From Site >> Allowed Taxonomies >> Untick Categories

I wanted to allow posting by non authors, but wanted submitters to be logged in. To accomplish this, I changed
line 369 of post-from-site-class.php from….

if (current_user_can('publish_posts') || $options['allow_anon']){

to…..

if (is_user_logged_in() || $options['allow_anon']){

The setting for ‘allow_anon’ could also be deleted in my situation, but I left it in case I ever decide to allow anonymous submissions.

Nice job. =D

I solved it because it was irritating and I needed for it to work, so I could be lazy and not have to mark categories after people posted. =D

Did you try the other 2 methods that I posted?

Great. Happy to hear it & you’re welcome.

Try this….

pfs-submit.php
This is line 142-ish
$postarr['post_type'] = $pfs_options['post_type'];
After that line, add the following
$postarr['post_category'] = array('4');

4 being your category id

This was my quick solution to get it to work the way I needed it to (posting to 1 category, within a page, no popup). I haven’t checked it for compatibility with anything else.
shortcode used — [post-from-site cat=’4′]

post-from-site.class.php
This is line 396
$out .= apply_filters( 'pfs_before_submit', '', $idtext );
After that line, I added the following
$out .= "<input type='hidden' name='cat' value='" .$cat. "' />\n";

pfs-submit.php
This is line 25
$title = $pfs_data['title'];
After that line, I added the following
$category = $pfs_data['cat'];

This is line 142
$postarr['post_type'] = $pfs_options['post_type'];
After that line, I added the following
$postarr['post_category'] = array($category);

You may be able to search your database and see what theme it believes it should be using, find that theme and put it back on the server.

Of course, 2 seconds after posting, I found what I needed. Though the description didn’t seem correct for what I was looking for, Customer Reviews suited my needs.