Plugin Reviews

Sorry to bring the subject up, and I understand that moderators must have a huge load to check and scan plugin reviews.

Searching wordpress and google, there’s plenty of posts regarding this subject. Basically unhappy developers 😀

I’ve read all sorts of unfair reviews, my plugins, other dev plugins. commercial with free functionality / free plugins, etc. I have never seen such erroneous and miss-representation of plugins quality, functionality, work and support put into them.

When it comes to anything related to a plugin with commercial / free functionality then the bad unfair reviews are probably in the order of 99%. I have even seem reviews that point users to competitor plugins in codecanion (with link and all the nine yards)! but most of the times is just 1 star because there’s a commercial element to the plugin. These plugins state these functionalities in the readme.txt. Unfortunately, the impression I get is that the system tolerates and actively discriminates these plugins.

After saying that, 5 star reviews are just as a bad representation of the plugins as the 1 star reviews, there’s hardly any relevant representation of the plugin in these reviews.

***joke***
wordpress reviews / voting are today’s representative democracy?
*** end joke***

I guess there’s a huge barrier inside wordpress to implement any other review system. Comparing to Joomla, rival free open source cms the difference is huge in this field.

WordPress cms is great, wonderful api. The wordpress website, awesome tool… so, why can’t everybody be happy?