Locked me out of my site

Instead of posting a one start review you could have posted in the support forums and I would have helped you figure out the problem.

BUT it seems you have a habit of posting one star reviews on plugins before even giving the developers a chance to work with you on it…

You should learn to show a little respect for the developers that spend hours and hours of their own time writing these FREE plugins that you seem to be having problems with.

Just read your email and your problem is more than likely related to your host disabling the PHP mail function. I’m working on an option to require or not require activation for existing accounts, but as of now existing accounts require activation.

My plugin uses the internal wp_mail() function, if mail is not working it is because of YOUR SERVER and YOUR CHEAP HOSTING PROVIDER, which is probably [redacted], NOT my plugin.

Instead of putting blame on a host, as a developer maybe a little research could have been done to develop the plugin to be sure that works on ALL servers. So, it is YOUR plugin that is the cause of the problem, plane and simple. My email works fine on my cheap host. It doesn’t work with your plugin. Looks to me like your FREE underdeveloped plugin should have waited to be released when it was ready.
Any plugin that locks out a user, is NOT ready to be released. Your FREE plugin, will cost people money to FIX the problems your plugin causes. = NOT FREE anymore.

Downloaders, I highly recommend you do NOT download this plugin until the developer fixes the problems.

Funny enough, I actually OWN a hosting company and tested it on a handful of my servers with no problems. There is no possible way to make sure it works on all servers, and you saying that clearly shows your lack of experience and knowledge in this situation.

“Fix the problems your plugin causes” … my plugin makes no changes to any of the core files, or any database changes (other than adding WP options) … so if you’re paying someone to remove/rename a directory from your site (which is all that is required to disable a plugin) then you have other larger issues than just a plugin not working.

You seem to have no respect or appreciation of any of the work devs like myself put into creating our plugins. You should be appreciative for the fact that you can build your site without knowing any PHP code because of people like me. Where do you think WordPress came from?

This entire plugin is open source and available on GitHub to track issues or for others to contribute. I don’t see you opening any issues or submitting any contributions, so really you just bash plugins if they don’t work in your specific instance (as is clearly visible from all your ratings under your profile, which happen to be 1 star).

As a user of a plugin the one way to contribute is to report issues, but instead of clicking on “Support” you decide to click on “Review” just to vent because you had a problem…

Every software has bugs, it doesn’t matter if it’s Microsoft, or a free plugin. The feedback from users is how these things get fixed, there is no such thing as a bug free software/plugin.

Please don’t bash hosting providers on the forums, that can quickly turn spammy.

My apologizes, I am unable to edit the original post, can you just remove the names from the post?

Hi,

Same problem here :
ERROR: Your account is still pending activation, please check your email, or you can request a password reset for a new activation code.

My user doesn’t have a correct email so I’ll never get my activation email. Your option “new users need activation” is adding this need for OLD users too. That’s a big issue. And you did not even check if it’s admin.

Since I read this review before, I did not close my logged admin account. So I disabled “This will require new accounts to be verified by email before they are able to login.” and everything is back. What a fear.

In the same time I totally understand and respect the efforts you put into this plugin. I don’t like the attitude of “issues” but thanks to him, I did not loose access due to your plugin. I’ll continue to use your plugin if you can help me activate this option only for “really” new users… with five stars ??

This was fixed a while ago FYI, plus version 2.0 is in works with lots of major upgrades, enhancements, and fixes … not released on WP repo yet but it’s up on GitHub