Structured Data still a Premium feature ?

Hello!

We pioneered the feature in 2017 (the comment is from February 17, 2017!), and I’m afraid it’ll remain a paid feature with us. Why this is the case is explained in this blog post and in the comments thereunder.

To add to that blog post, we found that Articles’ structure data functionality only affects established websites. And, because of that, we believe it’s only fair that after you’re become established using TSF for free, you help us grow with you by getting a license with us.

Here you can find an overview of structured data supported by TSF, and how we evaluated their usefulness.

So, contrary to what other plugin authors tell you, we found that this functionality isn’t helpful for smaller sites. And we don’t expect developers of those sites to pay us for something they don’t need or can’t afford.

In the past week, I’ve also added a Google News sitemap and some more enhanced functionality to the Articles extension. In that, it’ll soon (ETA 2 weeks) become a fully-fledged autonomous package for news publishers.

All in all, we focus on the quality of our features. Please understand that we offer much of our work from the past five years for free. We plan to continue this effort, but we do depend on our paying users to maintain it all.

To close, we rely on our users to recognize the quality, security, and performance of our software. It is why the vast majority of our customers come from established businesses and esteemed public organizations. And, that is ultimately where our focus lies — in a slower, yet vastly more steady, pace.

I hope this explains everything. Cheers!