CASCAIDr – A technically inept charity organisation that’s accepting donations but no new referrals. Standard So, as many people know we are struggling to get our appropriate rights respected by the care system in the UK. We thought we’d found at least a partial answer for getting legal information, advice and guidance. After looking online for feedback about CASCAIDr we thought we’d give them a try. Continue reading
Priory Care Group are still Disgusting and Neglectful in 2021! Standard The Priory Care Group who claim they “aspire to deliver the highest quality of care in the UK across our range of services, which include acute mental healthcare, addiction treatment and low and medium secure facilities.” Priory, or No Priority? The chief operations officer for Priory Care Group, a Rebekah Cresswell is responsible for “Priory Adult Care”, and has been quoted as saying (on Care Talk’s What Keeps Me Awake At Night?) “If it is not good enough for my family, then it is not good enough for one of our service users.” – However I have challenged her words with Priory Group and they just do not ring true. Would Rebekah be happy as a client of her own service? Continue reading
Review of PrettyLinks WordPress Plugin. Standard Since I appear to have angered the all-knowing wordpress.org spam detector, they wouldn’t allow me to post my review, so I thought I’d post it on my own site. I really want to like this plugin, but the nag screen is incredibly annoying The features I need are well covered by the free / lite version of this plugin, however it regularly puts up a window asking me to update to the pro version, only giving me the option of “Yes” or “Maybe Later”, there isn’t an option to say “No thanks, I’m happy with the free version, I have no need of the enhanced functionality.” It adds lots of links that will redirect you from your admin panel to the developer’s page to buy it, so it is incredibly easy to click the wrong button and be redirected to a site you didn’t intend to. I understand they need to show the pages off to people that might have use of the advanced features, but there should be an option to hide all the none free stuff I don’t need. Since the code is GPL I could go through and maintain a fork of the plugin with all the stuff removed, but honestly I don’t have the time so will probably try another plugin. I looked at buying the pro version, but it’s not a one time payment, it would be a yearly subscription, at the lowest price is £50/year, which is just not economical for my hobby site for myself and friends. I’m starting to like pro plugins that are one time payments with a certain amount of timed support available, if you need more support after that pay for it, and you get upgrades for that major version number. Your requirements may differ.
