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I just ran across this in the documentation. It seems like an odd restriction, but oh well.

In any case, I think you should add this limitataion to the FAQs on www.remarpro.com. Would have saved me a bunch of test time! And I wouldn’t have wasted yours. ;0)

Thanks.

Samuel (Otto), Okay, I’ll take you at your word that Bluehost isn’t contributing to www.remarpro.com in a way that would land them on the very short list.

But there’s the rub: this is, indeed, an extremely short list, given the hundreds of hosting companies out there. On the other hand, the list of theme vendors is quite long — and it appears there is only one important criteria for getting on the list: “…here are a collection of folks who provide GPL themes…What they all have in common is people behind them who support open source, WordPress, and its GPL license.” This says nothing about the quality of the products the vendors provide, and falls far short of offering any recommendation.

While Bluehost may have “good people” working there, they most certainly have lousy process. Don’t take my word for it — just run a few searches and you will find ample evidence reported by many other people. Yes, you can find negative feedback about just about any hosting vendor out there. But I would submit that the preponderance of horror stories about Bluehost since their consumption by EIG should give anyone pause to recommend them. (This is totally consistent with many other hosting vendors that have been consumed by EIG. New management comes in, customer service goes down the drain.

If you want to provide a community-driven forum about hosting vendors, or lists of vendors that meet certain, basic, measureable criteria for running WordPress sites, that’s fine. But specifically singling out vendors for recommendation — especially the likes of vendors such as Bluehost — is unnecessary, and is doing a disservice to the WordPress community.

As noted in other posts on this forum, and as documented on many other similar forums, since being absorbed by EIG, Bluehost provides some of the absolute worst customer service in the industry. Why, oh why is Bluehost still included in the list of “recommended” hosting companies???

This is an absolute disservice to the WordPress community, especially to those who are new to WordPress and to website development. These people are likely to be impressed by the huge user base the company has and their cheap-o pricing for small sites. And, since they probably wouldn’t know where to look for honest assessments of their customer service, they are likely to simply “trust” www.remarpro.com’s recommendations.

But even putting Bluehost aside, why is www.remarpro.com presenting any recommendations for hosting companies??? www.remarpro.com does not recommend premium themes or plugins, or WordPress consultants. This seems like a significant conflict-of-interest, and makes we wonder: does Bluehost contribute significant $$$ or other resources to the Foundation???

Anyway, if www.remarpro.com wants to offer suggestions about finding a hosting company, why not, instead of recommending specific hosts, provide a “how to” guide that outlines a recommended process for picking a good host? It could include links to useful resources that list and review hosts, without recommending any specific ones.

Thank you. That worked nicely. Besides doing this, the only other thing I have to do is to go to each of the pages that contains a reference to one of the the page template that I created for the Products pod and change those references to the “Offerings” template. All seems good now after installing woocommerce! :0)

For anyone reading this thread, a bit more experience to share…

On the plus side…plugin author is extremely responsive — two thumbs up!

On the not-so-plug side: per the support ticket I opened on WP.org, there apparently was a “temporary glitch” of some kind in the Postmatic process that held up opt-in confirmations to be processed right away. Not a huge deal in itself (it was quickly resolved), but the author wants you to log your tickets on their website, rather than on WP.org. This makes it impossible to see whether others have run into similar problems, how often this kind of thing happens, etc. Would like to have more transparency about this.

My 3-star rating is unchanged, but I may still use the plugin.

Ok, well, documentation, FAQs, etc are good, but having the support history available is extremely valuable to a potential or current user. If you were to provide that as well, then I would say “A+”. Without it…”B-“. Just my opinion.

By the way, I understand the reasons for having a separate support forum outside of www.remarpro.com, but then other people who want to see the support history — if they are investigating the possibility of using the plugin, or attempting to research a problem they are having — lose all visibility to that information.

I just received THREE confirmation emails sent to the same address — which could be rather confusing/annoying to a casual user, and may cause them to unsubscribe.

Interesting to hear that about Canada @dannybrown. Wasn’t aware of it. Clearly double opt-in is the way to go, regardless of the law. And if one has that requirement to “show proof of intent”, then obviously the Postmatic approach is worth consideration, regardless of concerns about spambots. Will be interesting to see how this process morphs over time. Can see a time when you’ll need to submit your fingerprints to subscribe to a blessed blog! ;0)

One other thing: the idea of forcing a user to go through a double-opt-in process that entails replying with the right answer to a customized question frankly seems ludicrous to me. Good luck with that. I would never ascribe to that kind of process.

Thanks for the reply. I’ll take your word for it that the process I suggest may have some challenges to do right, but it’s the way the rest of the world seems to be dealing with. I do take to heart the point in the article about webmasters needing to be more vigilant and proactive about preventing spam — that is certainly valid.

A couple questions: where is the list of subscribers stored? In the WP database? On your server? Both? Is there a way to easily view/download that list?

Ankit, I am experiencing the same — rather annoying — issue. Constantly nagging people to try the premium version only serves to alienate customers. If someone really needs the additional functionality, they will purchase the premium version without being nagged about it. It would be very much appreciated if the notice appears only ONCE after you initially install the plugin — or, at most, after any time you upgrade to a new version. Okay???

By the way, I did use the widget on the Dropbox Backup control panel to register at https://secure.webpage-backup.com/backup. It’s not clear to me at all what this other site is supposed to do. Please explain that.

Lastly, after I registered, I received a confirmation email containing BOTH my username AND the password I entered when I registered. Don’t you know: you should NEVER send usernames along with their passwords “through the clear” via email!!!! You are putting user’s security at extreme risk following this process, and you need to change it ASAP. That you apparently are not well informed enough to know this makes me extremely reluctant to consider using your plugin.

Thanks for the fix. Works good!

I just updated to Version 5.3.8 from Version 5.3.4, and had the same problem: you can see the menu items in the dashboard, but the pages are all blank.