Needs Some Work

  • Outdoorsmen

    (@outdoorsmen)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    On the surface, this is a beautiful plugin. The authors are engaged and responsive. Their website has great documentation and snippets to enhance the features. By all rights it deserves a great rating except for a few things.

    Even though I disagree with the method the plugin “Piggy Backs” on other plugins, they use a child page that screws up the Orders page for the Woocommerce plugin. Hivepress has taken over this page for listing and feature purchases. The author even admits it is confusing. Why is the child page necessary?

    Woocommerce is great by it’s own rights, but for this plugin, having to add the extra “bloat” that Woocommerce adds to the website is unnecessary. Why have a super center when a shopping cart will do?

    This plugin also uses the WordPress comment features to handle the Hivepress reviews and messages. Again confusing. I’m sure the authors are familiar with custom post types and creating tables. Check out the competition and see how they do it.

    The plugin could have better notifications when something happens. There is a snippet that I used to create buttons for this but being notified should be a basic feature. (BTW, the count is off when you click the notification balloon.)

    There are some CSS issues for anyone not using the Hivepress theme and you might want to read up on how Google Search handles the schema for reviews. There are ways to tell Google what type of review it is and should the review be posted in the search (people for example). This plugin does not offer that.

    The main reason why this plugin gets the low review; it doesn’t allow for a reply to a review. Just like with this review for this plugin, the author gets to respond. What incentive is there for someone to claim a listing if they can’t do anything?

    So why not just give the other add on plugins the bad reviews? Because they are just that, an add on.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Outdoorsmen.
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  • Plugin Author HivePress

    (@hivepress)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for your feedback.

    Like with any software, there’s always room for improvement, and some of your suggestions are already on the roadmap (like the Reply to Reviews one). We’ve been developing the initial version of HivePress (along with its free theme and extensions) for 2 years and released it for free because we believe in the open-source community, and while it’s a pity for us that you equate these efforts with 1 star, we’ll continue working 24/7 to improve HivePress with every update.

    I hope you’ll find a better solution for your directory.

    Thread Starter Outdoorsmen

    (@outdoorsmen)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Ok maybe 1 star was a little harsh. You deserve a 7 when you get it right. I upgraded it to a 2.

    Isn’t it wonderful that we are able to respond?

    I hope you’ll find a better solution for your directory.

    Thank you, I have already taken your plugin apart and created my own. Maybe that’s it, you just see your plugin as a simple directory when it’s really so much more. Fix the reply feature and you’ll have the best review plugin on WordPress.

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