Tareq,

I am very sorry but I missed the second sentence in your reply that said you were going to fix the setting. I was ticked because the same thing happened last year (there was a ticket about it) and this year your support team told me I needed to buy the plugin again. I apologize for misunderstand and I have removed all the tweets about it except for the two where I apologize:

https://twitter.com/anseltaft/status/563458166516883456 and

Tareq,

Please don’t start with the ‘license validity’ nonsense. You and I both know that’s rubbish given the sales page I linked to in my last reply as well as our exchanges on Advanced WordPress.

I will not do business again with any company that disavows lifetime licenses they sold in the past, only because it’s inconvenient to keep them going now. Take my support tickets for example: I submitted one for a timeout issue (which improved your code) and two others to ask why I could not download the latest version. Last year’s ticket was the same as the most recent one and now it’s clear that you switched the license model then.

I’m pretty annoyed you have decided not to grandfather in the people who first supported you and as I see it, it’s the ethical thing to do. That said, fair warning, I’m going to blog about this and you will see some tweets about it. I’m sure you would love to see things like this quietly die behind the walls of a support login, which is exactly why these things need to bubble up out of their confines so people understand how some companies treat their customers.

Cheers,

Ansel

Here’s the site back then, showing unlimited updates:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130723103644/http://wedevs.com/plugin/wp-user-frontend-pro/#buyNow

I can provide a PDF of my receipt as well. Again, I expect the terms that were offered when I purchased it to be honored.

Regarding the infinite loop, your solution would work fine, but why not just default the setting away from something that would cause an infinite loop without a page selected? That seems like a reasonable approach.

Ask Tareq, he will know who I am, and that is not the case. When I purchased WPUFEP it was a lifetime license. I expect that to be honored.

Ansel

Could you see my private reply? I don’t see it showing up here.

It worked before on Easy PHP local webserver, but it seems to be encountering a hiccup on Desktop Server. Perhaps I need to poke a hole in my laptop’s firewall? Is it trying to phone home through a port number other than 80?

If you can offer a few more details about the license checking request I’m sure I can sort out a solution and offer back the solution. Thank you for your help.

I found and removed wpuf_license, but wpuf_license_status is nowhere to be found. Perhaps that’s the problem? Should I add it?

It didn’t work. Perhaps I need to open up a port in my firewall, if it’s trying to register through something non-standard?

Are there any known premium plugin conflicts that might be at play here?

Perhaps I should deactivate the plugin, remove the folder and clear some database entries? If so, what would I clear?