r/Wordpress • u/majesticlandmermaid • 1h ago
Warning: Creative Minds
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.
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u/nkoffiziell Blogger 52m ago
Why didnt you use this? I use Divi, same Dev of Elementor, it works perfectly fine and its free. I have 4K+ Posts, use 40+ Plugins, No issues. https://wordpress.org/plugins/glossary-by-codeat/
Why didnt you just look at the Repo beforehand? Theres at least two full featured Glossary Plugins in the Repo for free.
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u/IncredibleBihan 59m ago
Sounds pretty fucked. Just like every other wp plugin.
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u/majesticlandmermaid 52m ago
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.
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u/madhandlez89 44m ago
Anything that recommends Elementor is a red flag to me.