Has this been abandoned?

  • @woothemes

    Wow this is lame, not updated in 6 months with 30,000+ active installs?

    For a multi million dollar company now owned by WordPress itself – you would think you’d set a good example by maintaining the plugin with an update every once in a while. Even the marketplace says it’s not supported for current version?

    I see WooThemes has a Paid / Pro version and a Free version, and the Free version is just straight abandoned? Hmmm…

    Everything in the marketplace is GPL, maybe we should fork this and take over with a paid version like you’re doing so it can stay updated?

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  • Hi there,

    Thanks for your feedback.

    The code for this product is in active development, with issues fixed as they arise. A plugin of this nature has a very small code footprint, which inherently implies less on-going maintenance, other than compatibility updates with WordPress, WooCommerce, and the Google Analytics integration pieces.

    If there are specific issues you’d like to see fixed, please do log them in the forums for this product. We welcome any and all suggestions, and feedback.

    Thanks again for your feedback.

    Thread Starter mystyleplatform

    (@mystyleplatform)

    “other than compatibility updates with WordPress” – yep, that’s the part you haven’t done in 6 months.

    The main thing I’d like to see fixed is exactly that – update frequency and keeping up to date with compatibility for WordPress / WooCommerce at least within a month or two of WP updates… we want all of our clients to be able to run this plugin without asking us – “Why does it say it’s not compatible with our version of wordpress” when they’re running the current build or 1-2 minor revisions behind.

    This hasn’t been updated in 6 months and it has tens of thousands of active installs. Does that seem like appropriate maintenance / upkeep? How hard is it to set up unit tests, update the plugin, and keep it updated so that people can have assurance that the plugin works for the current WP and WC versions? Maybe just once every 2-3 months run it on the current build of WP with some basic unit tests, and post that it’s compatible or post an update with bug fixes so that it is.

    That’s what we try to do, and we have 6 people in house, and only 1 of them needs to commit a few hours every couple months to do that. How many do you guys have in house? Can someone break off a few hours to update compatibility? Or is it because it’s a free plugin, it gets almost no attention?

    Once the plugin shows it’s been updated and is compatible with 4.5.2+ I’ll be happy to change this review.

    Hi there,

    I’ve personally re-tested this extension with the latest versions of both WordPress and WooCommerce. All is in order, so I’ve updated the stable tag to WordPress 4.5.2 as well.

    If the plugin works fine with updated versions of WordPress and Woocommerce, then why would they need to do an update to this plugin? Does it really make you feel better to see a more recent update timestamp? The markers that say it works with the most recent version of WordPress aren’t accurate and rely on user feedback.

    If it works…it works. Much ado about nothing…

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