What annoys me though, and this is the reason my 3 stars and not 5, is that this plug-in takes some rather cheeky liberties by spamming our admin dashboards with banners, which in my book is a huge no-no. You are no doubt familiar with the response; “We only place ads in x amount of your dashboard areas” or “You can click to dismiss them”. But imagine for a second if every WordPress plugin developer did this? Can you imagine the mess in your dashboard? Did you warn me before installation that you would be doing this? Did you ask for permission? No. This plugin has over 3 million active installs. If they place 3 banners in every dashboard, that’s 9 million banner ads. That is a lot of clicks to dismiss!
So who determines who can and should do it? There is no regulation, it’s down to developers to respect the nature of the system and so this is one of the pitfalls when you place your trust in a free open source software solution. If it was a commercial CMS with a third-party marketplace for extensions, plug-ins and themes, developers would be prevented from doing it and eventually banned if they persist.
Today, I logged in to find yet another Updraft banner this time on the admin home page consisting of 8 lines of text, graphics and the option to dismiss it for 12 months, which somehow the developer thinks makes it okay and acceptable to do this. Who knows what tracking code it may contain, I might take a look. However when you delete the dismissed cookie, or they add a new banner or yet another banner in a different place like the updates pages, the dismissed banners return. They don’t need to do this, a good plug-in speaks for itself in terms of functionality and support and people who need additional features will be happy to purchase it for a fair price and support the developer and this plug-in has a good reputation.
Perhaps it is about time WordPress admins started boycotting plugins that engage in disrespecting your admin dashboard whenever they feel like it.
]]>My suggestion is this: all plugin developers should be required to use a call (API?) built into WordPress through which all banners and notices appear atop pages in the back-end admin UI.
Furthermore to put control back in the the WordPress admin’s hands, there should be a “Notices” page under the WordPress Settings which allows an admin to selectively choose what plugin notices to show (or not) like this:
Display Notices:
(checkbox) Show plugin functionality notices
(checkbox) Show notices for upsells, ratings and reviews
There should also be a mechanism to report plugins which sneak in notices for upsells, and ratings & reviews into the functionality notices. Violators should first be warned, then this plugins delisted from the plugins directory if they continue this behavior.
Please do this WordPress team! It’s high time to put control of plugin developers’ notices back into the hands of the WordPress Website admins!
Thank you!
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