Update broke my site. Need to pay to restore it.

Sorry you feel that way. This is a “pay what you want” plugin, including $0, so “extortion” is a pretty strong word when you’re not forced to pay anything at all. Development takes time and so does monitoring the forums, so I asked users to contribute what they feel is fair given how useful they find the plugin and their economic situation. I am sorry that upgrading breaks your site — it is possible to get a license key before upgrading. I should have tried to make that process smoother, but given WordPress’ limitations and the nature of upgrading, it’s difficult to completely avoid the bumps.

Even a $0 cost is not a welcome surprise when it breaks a website. Next time I’d like to suggest running an interim version that pops up the license key requirement for a month or two before suddenly switching over. It was the surprise breakage that was the real problem.

Thank you for making the effort to keep this plug-in up to date.

Mift, I verified that $0 does work in the cart. I probably should have put in more but being out of regular gainful employment is expensive.

Yes, I realize that wasn’t the smoothest way to do this, and I will make sure to do it smoother in the future, but again, doing this within the confines of WordPress is not easy.