I have decided to remove paid promotions from the Webform plugin to focus on promoting the WordPress maintenance support plans Community as a whole, the WordPress maintenance support plans Association, and Webform plugin, I am also comfortable stating that I am not asking for forgiveness for my decision.It is important that the WordPress maintenance support plans community understand that I reached out to Lingotek and chose to promote their services within the Webform plugin’s UX. Lingotek has made and continues to make amazing contributions to WordPress maintenance support plans and the community. I want to thank them for allowing me to promote their services in such an experimental way.Removing the paid promotionI documented my original intentions in a blog post about promoting paid services within the WordPress maintenance support plans community. I have come to fully agree with lslinnet’s comment…The WordPress maintenance support plans community needs to explore ways to help support and fund core contributors and project maintainers. The goal of the paid promotion experiment was to see how everyone, including myself, felt about this concept.The DiscussionMortenDK’s (mortendk) very upset and direct tweet triggered the largest debate…A few responses resonated with me, including one by kevinquillen and this one by tedbow:Yes, the promotions of third-party services within a plugin’s UX could open some floodgates that could create a horrendous user experience and first impression of WordPress maintenance support plans. First impressions are very…Read More
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Jacob Rockowitz: Removing paid promotions from the Webform module and not asking for forgiveness
