daveguitaruno

I hadn’t updated this plugin for a while, and some items disappeared when I did. So I assume they have been moved from the free version to premium version sometime in the past. I had my site window open as well as the administration tab open simulateously. I updated the plugin, when I refreshed I saw the section get shorter and some items disappeared. I have uninstalled the plugin now. I can’t give you the exact details, so short of trauling through a wayback machine to spot the differences, which I don’t have the time or inclination to do. Maybe the worst rating is a bit harsh, but I was not a happy bunny at the time when it happened. I get snippy when developers depreciate their free version software to entice you to go for their paid version. The WordPress environment is open-source there’s a lot of competition. This is a small (utility type) plugin and the premium upgrade cost of $20 annual subscription is disproportionate for what extra functionality that buys you (and I think this is temporary reduction from normal $28). I feel this is in the league of a $5 subscription type plugin. Adding extra icons is not really adding functionality. As stated above the built-in WordPress widgets – “Social Icons” has most of your premium icons available for free. This is not the way to monetize your plug-in adding in some real extra functionality like hovering over the icon to view a snapshot the social media page something like that is real value. If this was something like the scale of Woocommerce with masses of functionality built-in I could see the justification for $20 subscription cost. Most of this functionality is already built in WordPress. I was only being a bit lazy installing it in the first place and the animation of the icons was eye-catching. Anyway, I don’t like having too many plug-ins because each one can be a potential source of instability, performance hog or security risks. I made a silly mistake here in that I didn’t download a copy of the earliest plugin I originally had (I normally do this) that I could have reverted back to it. BTW I am not carrying on this conversation any further, I have spent way too much time here responding. Let’s both agree to disagree.

Hi Nick,

These icons are missing from the free version:
Reverbnation
SoundCloud
Spotify
Vimeo
Amazon
Buffer

They are all in your premium set.
Now with the built-in WordPress widgets – “Social Icons” most of those are available for free in the current standard WordPress build. Reverbnation and Buffer are missing, but I’m sure they will get added soon enough.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by daveguitaruno.

I had the same problem so I followed the advice here. I disabled my plugins and it turns out the conflict for me was “Page Expiration Robot” so I will have to find another page expiration tool

I take back everything. I now realise that it is calculating correctly, just not in the manner that I expected. When you put in the price of the product, it already includes VAT so for an item in the shop at ￡250
It means its gross price before VAT was ￡208.33 so 20% of that is ￡41.66. So gross plus VAT = ￡249.996 (a little rounding). I was expecting you enter the gross price of the item then would show the VAT and then add the VAT on top. It does clearly say under the figure (includes ￡41.66 VAT).
So I thought was my expectation unfair? I guess a lot of people were thinking it was unclear hence lots of queries on the net. How does the biggest and best eCommerce site on the web do it? Amazon of course is very clear.
Total before VAT: ￡208.33
VAT: ￡41.66
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Total: ￡250.00

On the latest version of WooCommerce (as of today 29/01/2014) we added 2 items (of ￡250) on my girlfriend’s website that totaled to ￡500 (including VAT) it said the VAT component was ￡87.50 but that’s wrong 20% of ￡500 is ￡100. I think the answer is simple, the program is ignoring the values stored in the VAT table and must have a hard-coded 17.5% value.
￡87.50 is 17.5% the old VAT value in the UK (and other countries) for a long time though sadly not now… If nobody else has fixed this then I’ll look at the code.