Nice concept, but pricing model sucks

  • travhf

    (@travhf)


    10 years ago

    This plugin is useless and a pain in the arse to setup without the other plugins which you have to pay for. So basically you are forced to pay yearly if you want your site to continue to function – otherwise you have to re-do the entire website. I suspect some form of planned obsolescence is at play here because less than one month after my subscription expired, the install won’t work. Do not use if you plan on setting up a basic website for small organizations that don’t have much to spend on websites.

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  • anoriell – Katarzyna Janoska

    (@anoriell)

    10 years ago

    This is not entirely true.
    You can use Types with pure PHP (I used it like that for a really long time with nothing but success), and if you decide to buy the entire Toolset package and your licence expires nothing bad happens to your sites. All you do not get after the licence period is: access to the paid support forum and plugin updates.

    Everything you created stays as it is.

    Thread Starter travhf

    (@travhf)

    10 years ago

    That’s not true – I installed views on one of my sites through a template, now says I need to upgrade, but can’t because it says I haven’t paid for it, so it disabled the entire WYSIWG editor window and now I can’t edit any of my content.

    Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Are you sure Views disabled the WYSIWYG editor? It sounds like an other problem.
    I have used the complete toolset a few year ago and though stopped I’ve stopped using it, so I won’t get updates, it still works.
    Do you have debug enabled? Maybe you can get some info on what the problem is.

    Thread Starter travhf

    (@travhf)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, I am sure. If I disable views, the WYSIWYG editor works fine. The views plugin was installed through a template. If I switch the template to something else, no change, the back-end editor still fails to function.

    I am not going to spend too much time on this as I am not being paid (volunteering). It will be more cost effective and easier to just delete the entire site and start from scratch, maybe with a different CMS (I haven’t decided), as I am not interested in digging for the root cause on this one at this time.

    Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Fair enough! I have no clue what is causing the problem though.
    Good luck!

    thursdayinseptember

    (@thursdayinseptember)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    You can use the free plug in with WP Show Posts to display – you do not have to buy anything.

    However I am disabling the free plug in because it puts a big intrusive ad right where the “publish” button goes and I can’t make it go away.

    Anonymous User 14808221

    (@anonymized-14808221)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @travhf

    What you have used is an embedded version of Toolset.
    (through a template)

    This version never lets you edit Toolset components.
    It is not paid, as you get it with the Template (this means, the Template’s developer has a account on Toolset and created a Theme with Toolset, and shipped it with the embedded version).

    It might be, that this Template with Toolset is very old and misses some crucial updates to be compatible with even WordPress.
    WordPress changes all the time, and we provide Updates for it.

    Now, for Types, those are Free.
    For Toolset, they are not.

    What you can do here is:
    – contact the Theme developer and ask about if this Theme/Toolset subscription is still provided, and to update therefore.
    – Use types only
    – Get a Toolset Subscription and profit from it’s Support and Updates.

    Unfortunately we can not provide Toolset for Free.

    But Types is, and will always be, free.

    If your Website is built with Toolset, it requires a subscription to receive eventual crucial Updates.

    This is not any different with many other Premium Plugins and Themes.

    I am sorry that you had to experience this, it is not the first time I hear of themes that have been developed with Toolset and then abandonde by teh Developer.

    But we can not do anything about this.
    It’s up to the Developer to actually provide the correct service to the user’s of the product shipped.

    I want to point out again that Types is fully free, and we do not produce those Themes /Templates.

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