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.
