Constant Round of Bugs

This is one of those plugins which could of been great, but is let down by hasty, seemingly untested, updates which fix some bugs yet create a whole new set, which are so obvious the only conclusion is they haven’t tested the bug fixes to see how they affect everything else.

The programming reminds me of hobbyist programming, disjointed, untested and in many ways lacking much of what you would find from a professional.

Don’t get me wrong it frequently does what it says on the can, BUT the finer points are missing and it really isn’t worth what they are charging for the pro version, a sentiment that applies doubly if you bought on the basis of the word “Stylish” it’s only stylish if you like the very limited styling it allows.

As for the bugs and there are a few, as I pointed out above, they upgrade, put the changelog data in the update folder, unlike most who post it online, then add a nag row to WordPress demanding that you update, but you have no idea what the updates are until… well until you update, then its often too late.

Of two recent updates, one, for what was the very limited email form creation, where they changed settings on the first 3 fields to stop you editing them, however they didn’t reset them to what they should of been and if you had already changed them, you now couldn’t edit them.

You may think this point is minor, however the fix to overcome the problem was a complete rewrite of the calculator and if you had spent many hours creating the calculator, the last thing you needed was to re-spend that time redoing it, because of inept programming on an email field

Next to go was the toggle buttons, or checkbox feature of the calculator, before the update it worked… after update not so well.

Then there’s the issue with the side panel listing which shows the text of a calculated field but not the value, which, by the way is added to the total (bet anyone who’s got the calculator out and added everything up has ended up scratching their head wondering why the different totals).

Saying that it actually displays in the PDF, but online, no sign of it.

Overall if you need a simple calculator with a simple layout, then this does the job, but then lots of similar calculators do the same job for far less cost.

If you want something more complex, then a tentative yes, you may get this to do what you want, within its limitations, but look forward to high level of stress and frustration, especially after updates

• This topic was modified 2 years ago by impeterpann.