Forced Center Vertical Alignment of Columns

  • Let’s be honest a big reason someone would use PBS or other plugins is to add things like columns to pages on a website. If you’re adding columns for text the chances are very high that those columns are going to feature text that is of different length. Even if just by a single line. Especially when you consider different screen sizes. So it makes little sense to me that PBS forces columns to display with their content centered vertically.

    I understand that you want people to buy your premium plugin but this seems like a weird place to make your pitch by breaking basic design in this fashion. I know that older versions didn’t do this because they’re live on other sites I’ve worked on but where the site owner hasn’t updated the plugin.

    I’m really tempted to just download and use the old version of the plugin but there are obviously concerns with doing something like that. In lieu of doing so I’m tempted to avoid using PBS altogether and giving it a bad review and posting reviews warning others to not use it because of this silly attempt to force adoption of the paid version of the plugin.

    Look, I’m not against paying for quality stuff but this is a really terrible way to try to get someone to do it. Please provide a means of correcting this break in design norms or remove it from being a premium only option. If you don’t I will be removing PBS from the sites I know it’s on and will warn others away from it.

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  • Thread Starter WDOrkoskey

    (@wdorkoskey)

    For anyone else who finds this frustrating they made the change in version 4.3 per their changelog:
    row 137: Change: New columns and rows now have centered content.

    So in the next to last update they decided to break basic design principals to try to force us to buy the premium version. As aligning content in columns is usually not centered they could have made centering it a premium feature but rather than do that the developers decided they’d break the functionality of their lite plugin as a means of forcing paid adoption.

    I’m assuming a lot of people just walked away and found another plugin but I’d like them to know how incredibly dumb that idea is. It’s not how you build loyalty and it shows a disdain for your users. If you don’t want to offer a lite version don’t, nobody is forcing you to. Or offer a trial of your premium if you want to force adoption but don’t do something so stupid and ugly as to break basic design principals as a form of ransom because most people are going to go pick from one of the hundreds of other options.

    Hi @wdorkoskey,

    This is Una from support. Terribly sorry about the late reply, but thanks for voicing out this concern.

    We’ll be honest – before coming across this message, we had no idea the alignment feature was blocked in the Lite version, as we’ve never received this complaint before. I checked it out further and you’re right. It isn’t available on PBS Lite. I showed this to our team, and they were surprised as well as alignment should be included as a very basic feature.

    Anyway, Benjamin, PBS’ creator, is currently working to update the lite version so that it’s included.

    We rely a lot on our customers’ feedback, and want to assure you that this was an honest mistake on our team’s end. We have no intention of breaking our customers’ trust, whether they’re on the paid or free version of PBS. We’re truly sorry this issue’s upset you, but thankful that you voiced out this concern at the same time.

    If you could leave your e-mail, we’d be more than happy to alert you when the updated lite version is available.

    Kind Regards,
    Una

    Thread Starter WDOrkoskey

    (@wdorkoskey)

    No need to alert me. I’ve already begun to switch all of the sites I manage to other drag and drop front end editors but thank you for clearing that up and for changing it. I’m sure that others will appriciate it.

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