Title: Deceptive Developer
Last modified: September 15, 2018

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# Deceptive Developer

 *  [johncanham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncanham/)
 * (@johncanham)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deceptive-developer/)
 * First I looked all the documentation over and then started to build the form.
   It was a long job application that took over an hour to do. As I built I had 
   another tab open and was looking at the front to see how the form looked which
   was OK. After I finished the form I call the customer and he’s said that it only
   had a few fields. So I looked at another browser and sure enough only part of
   the form was there. So I looked again at the documenation and no mention of limited
   fields. Pro version said unlimited fields. So I spent a wasted 2 hours building
   and made a fool out of myself with my customer because this is how visual form
   builder does business. Yes I could just pay the 29 bucks but I would rather pay
   50 to Ninja Forms because I need a file uploader than to pay vfb less because
   they are not honest. DO NOT USE THE PLUGIN. There are other things missing to
   like sending a confirmation email, thats probably more money. Ninja Forms has
   so much more for the free version. Never Again.

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 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Muro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmuro/)
 * (@mmuro)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deceptive-developer/#post-10699319)
 * There are no limits to either the free version or Pro. The only limits are related
   to your server. Most people who build long forms run into issues with the max_input_vars
   setting in PHP which needs to be increased in order to save all of the VFB field
   settings. Here’s our doc on Server Requirements with a giant yellow box on max_input_vars:
   [https://docs.vfbpro.com/article/6-server-requirements](https://docs.vfbpro.com/article/6-server-requirements).
 * You are welcome to use whatever plugin you like. I’m tired of people leaving 
   1-star reviews as “revenge” because they think I’m some shady developer over 
   here trying to steal $29 from people. If you honestly think that’s who I am, 
   then I don’t want you as a customer — please use something else.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deceptive-developer/#post-11242372)
 * [@mmuro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmuro/) while I feel your pain here,
   and personally agree with it (seriously $29 isn’t that much to pay someone who
   developed such a large piece of software!), it’s not ‘revenge.’ Someone is allowed
   not to like the fact that you charge $29 for an add-on or a pro version. Please
   don’t flag these. This is someone’s opinion, and while it feels like a personal
   attack, it’s generally not. It’s just how someone feels, and I think it’s pretty
   clear they’re not mad at you, just taking it out on you.
 * Which brings me to …
 * [@johncanham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncanham/) The only reason
   you ‘looked like a fool’ is because you failed to do the research first and the
   customer didn’t give you full specs on their requirements (which says much more
   about THEM than you). I strongly recommend you apologize to the customer and 
   offer to do more prep-work in the future to ensure a specific plugin meets their
   needs, which includes requiring they give you the full specs before you dive 
   into work 🙂

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