Change of ownership?

WPExperts have a history of buying plugins with hundreds of thousands of installs, this plugin has 400,000+ installations, so it seems as yet another acquisition in their portfolio. Whether this is for good or bad I cannot tell, I have no experience with plugins they previously acquired. Let us see…

The GitHub repo is still owned by the original author:
https://github.com/nocean/cf7-honeypot/

This could definitely be better communicated …

Looking at a few of the other 20k+ plugins they have in their portfolio, there appears to be updates and regular responses to support requests in the forum. It’s a fantastic plugin. I hope they continue Ryan’s excellent work.

Hi guys, yep, the plugin was acquired by WPExperts. It’s happened quite quickly, and leading into a holiday weekend here in Canada, so I haven’t had a chance to post much of a notice. I’m sure they will have more to say on their plans with the plugin, but as a response to you all and @pidengmor’s nice comment — my hope is also that they’ll continue to build and support the plugin in ways that I just haven’t been able to lately.

When I started the Honeypot plugin 13 years ago I was a web developer full-time, but I have since left the industry (though not the WordPress community) and my sluggish responses to support requests, and releases hasn’t been up to snuff. I’m excited that there is someone interested in taking on development and assuring that the plugin continues to get the support it deserves.

I truly appreciate all the help many of you have provided here in the forums and at points in the code as well. I’m also a user of the plugin, and look forward to seeing where it goes next.

Thanks for the update Ryan. Really appreciate all your efforts over these years at the anti-spam coalface. Although the development baton has now been passed on, we are happy to have you among the Contact From 7 Honeypot user-base.

@pidengmor Yes, you are right. WPExperts acquired this plugin, and we made a post about it here. I’m sorry not to post it here.

Thanks to Ryan @nocean for developing and maintaining an amazing plugin. Don’t worry—we will maintain it and provide support, as with all our other plugins.

@chesio I am sure you will have a good experience now, as you are one of our valued 1.5 million active users.

@zodiac1978 It’s done now.

If you guys have any suggestions, please do share.

Thanks,

Saad

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by Saad Iqbal.

Congratulations on the acquisition Saad, and thanks for the link to the post on wpexperts.io.

Thanks for link and update here @saadiqbal ! Much appreciated ??

If you guys have any suggestions, please do share.

There are some open issues and one PR from me at the GitHub repo. Would be great to get your feedback there. ??

@zodiac1978 all open issues are solved at github as you already knows, thanks for all your support. It would be great to see your opinion of plugin at .org reviews ??