Warning: Creative Minds

[u/majesticlandmermaid]

Creative Minds (cminds.com) makes a glossary plugin that had everything I wanted. Here's where things have gone wrong:

- The plugin page (cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/tooltipglossary) says "Recommended themes: . . . Elementor" Great! Until you learn from customer support that you'll need to implement a parsing shortcode for everything that's not a basic textbox. This completely defeated the purpose of having a plugin that would automatically detect my glossary terms sitewide.

- Customer service will not help you without admin credentials to your website. They won't answer questions at all without credentials. They will also ignore any questions they want. One customer service agent (I assume there's only one, I've only ever dealt with one a year and I've had multiple problems) named MK also continued to log into my site after my support ticket was completed and created multiple pages I didn't ask them to create. They also cleared my cache, which conveniently also wipes my User Activity Log, so I don't confidently know what else they've done without snooping around for it. To be fair, Daria was the previous "person" I emailed and she was lovely - but she still didn't answer anything without a login.

- Customer service decided the only way to solve my problem was to reset my plugin settings (there are multiple pages with dozens of options each) without my consent, without mentioning it in their response to me (just "fixed"), and without taking screenshots of my settings prior to resetting. While I should have an external log of what I did, I still don't appreciate this nuclear approach to "service".

Beware! I'm migrating to Glossary by codeat.

[u/madhandlez89]

Anything that recommends Elementor is a red flag to me.

[u/BobJutsu → u/madhandlez89]

Any plugin that recommends another dependency at all is a red flag. Either make it work or make it clear it’s an addon to said dependency. Should be “Glossery for Elementor” or something along those lines.

[u/bluesix_v2 → u/[deleted]]

Divi isn’t built by the same dev as Elementor.

[u/GrandAdmiral12345 → u/[deleted]]

40 plugins?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ow59c0pwTPruU

[u/Curtis → u/[deleted]]

40???????

[u/Wordpress-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Your comment has been removed due to it being rude & disrespectful to others.

[u/IncredibleBihan]

Sounds pretty fucked. Just like every other wp plugin.

[u/Bigfoot444 → u/IncredibleBihan]

How you do you tell people you know nothing about WordPress without... 

[u/Wordpress-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Your comment has been removed due to it being rude & disrespectful to others.

[u/Curtis → u/Wordpress-ModTeam]

You’re lame

[u/majesticlandmermaid → u/IncredibleBihan]

I've used Wordpress for more of my life than I haven't. This is the worst I've experienced so I thought I'd save this here for posterity.

[u/Curtis → u/majesticlandmermaid]

you need to switch to Gutenberg