Arrgg…ressive & regressive – Opaque update FUBARs

Why are Pirates always angry?
Because they ARRRGGGHH!!!

Just like how Themeisle have acted without any transparency with recent update that FUBARed my site footer. I appreciated trialing the Neve theme for a WP landing site for my portfolio – it is a basic but neat theme… just what I needed at the time. (From memory I donated $ for use of the free theme.)

My focus was more on setting up my LMS and secure hosting of my AWESOME collation of eLearning and multimedia productions. So AWESOME, that I keep get drawn away from freelancing – by securing more substantial contracts. Anyway, after finishing recent project, I returned focus to portfolio update and install, config and testing new Moodle 4.0 – which is FANTASTIC.

I have client engagements lined up for the week ahead and thought I should add a post or two my WP site. It had been a couple of months, so I checked on recommended updates and diligently went ahead with most of them – including updating the Neve theme.

THANKS SO MUCH – for providing NO heads up that the theme update would revert footer copyright/Powered by WP back to default in the Neve theme. I rolled back to previous version, the edit functionality has been removed – essentially FORCING subscription onto most WP newbies. Sure, I can edit php &/or mess around with css to work around it. OR, if you were TRANSPARENT and – I would have signed up for a business plan today.

THANK YOU for encouraging me to ditch the WP landing site and instead invest the time to maximise the new features and ability to customise the front-end look and UX of Moodle 4.0. It is going to cost me a couple of hours today – but hey, better being lazy and propping up Themeisle I believe.

Lucky I didn’t have auto-update enabled, elsewise my site would not achieving compliance best practice after content was revised by your update. When I utilise WP for my operations or for client projects, I am methodical to keep the sites lean, & avoid any/all ‘tweaks’ where possible. Increasingly so for security considerations in the current/emerging environment. I liked the look, feel and robust nature of your theme – unfortunately, I cannot trust your business model.

“I’ve been observing my brain trying to build narratives backward, looking for past decisions that brought me to this point. I must have done something smart, something that helped, right?

Not really, not in this case. Mostly, it’s just luck.”

Good luck with that @ionutn – maybe go back to some reflection and transparency reports. There are more positive means to generate sustainable growth – far brighter GNU futures ??

“This community that we have, that we’re building, that does so much, has to grow. We can’t compete with Apple, we can’t compete with Google, directly, in the field of resources. What we can eventually do is head count and heart count. We can compete on the ground of ideology because ours is better.”

— Edward Snowden, NSA whisteblower, speaking at LibrePlanet 2016.

Accessed fsf.org, 2022.08.28 05:05 UTC +10 BNE

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