Not Good at All

Hi?@ecoist

Thank you for sharing your honest feedback and we apologize for the confusion.

To directly address your concerns, the options to install WPForms and AIOSEO as additional plugins are only available in our Setup Wizard and only if one or more of the below options are left checked during the setup process:

• Improve your SEO rankings with the All in One SEO plugin.
• Create beautiful contact forms with just a few clicks.

Once a specific option is selected and that plugin is not currently installed, we have corresponding text that relates to that particular plugin. For example, if “Improve your SEO rankings with the All in One SEO plugin” is selected, this text will appear “The following plugin will be installed for free: AIOSEO”

Our intention was to provide great starter tools for popular/related needs while keeping the option to uncheck or uninstall if anyone was already using an alternative.

Hello @dake,

This is good to know, but this should NOT be a default. This should be an option to select, not forcing people to scan through all the conditions.

Let’s talk about privacy as an example. Should folks have to go in and turn off all the marketing, sales, tracking features a browser or piece of software uses because they don’t want to be tracked? No they shouldn’t have to. So the same applies to you folks.

Promote your products, but it should be an option people CHOOSE to check and not checked by default. This is my personal opinion, but I feel the majority of folks out there feel the same way.

Hi @ecoist

Thank you again for getting back to us and sharing your point of view in more detail.

We understand your concerns and have shared them with our team, so we can continue looking into adjusting this in a future release.