Stephen Sherrard

Hi Leslie,

Thanks for taking the time to register and post a comment! Yes, it’s always between having the site get overrun with spam posts, or making it a bit difficult for legit users to login and post. Sorry for that, but I’d rather spend my time programming and providing support than sorting through spam posts every day. BBPress doesn’t make things much easier, unfortunately, but I also didn’t want to waste my time coding my own support system and forums.

I would pay for a plugin that “Hides” or marks as “Pending” registration until a paypal (or other) button is clicked and payment made.

I’m assuming you are talking about signing up for a slot on a sign-up sheet, as opposed to registering for a user account on your web site. I’m certainly open to these types of suggestions if and when I decide to rewrite a “pro” version.

Perhaps (now that you are registered), you could add this to the Feature Requests section as a type of “paid signups” feature where payment needs to be made in order to be signed up for something. That would be a fairly major feature to try to add to the existing plugin, especially when you need to start messing around with payment gateways and processing responses from those various payment systems. But, I agree that would be a nice feature to have in a paid version of the plugin.

Regarding text notifications, I believe somebody asked me about this previously. First, there is no way to send a text message directly from WordPress. That would need to be done through some third party system (another site that has that backend infrastructure setup), which you would most likely need to subscribe to and pay for. Since there are several such services available, all with their own custom API, it would be a lot of work to support them all. Yes, it could be done, but it not natively from your site via your hosting company’s server. It has to connect to one of those services to send the text.

At this point, there does not seem to be enough interest in a pro version to support the amount of time I would need to put into its development, let alone all the time it would take to code custom interfaces for all the popular text message services. So, it’s not looking good at this point. Perhaps once I get a few other WooCommerce extensions finished up that have been in the works for a while, and if I’m not too busy with custom development projects, I may still take on this project. Based on my schedule this year so far, I don’t see that happening this year.

On the other hand, if someone wanted to pay me to develop an extension for the existing sign up sheets to send reminders/notices via text message through a specific service that they want to use, that is something I would consider since paid custom development projects always take priority.