Grow for WordPress

The concept of this plugin is awesome: it does a bunch of things that helps your site get more signups and engagement. But it falls very short.

First of all, the inline subscription form is UGLY. I mean, uglier than ugly. There isn’t a way to change it without complicated Javascript, either, because the CSS is hidden behind a shadow root. And even then, they use a bunch of random letters to confuse you, with, what I swear are ghost letters just so you have absolutely no idea how to change the CSS. Sorry, but the CSS should be extremely easy to change.

And when the plugin says it uses your theme’s color settings? Lies. It’s hard-coded in. Did I mention it was ugly?

Don’t make the mistake of signing up on your own site to test it out. The form goes away forever.

Most of the other stuff has bad documentation. Want to use the exclusive content? You’re just going to have to figure that out for yourself, I’m afraid.

At this point, the only reason I keep it is to hook into Google Sitekit to hopefully get approved to the Journey program, although I don’t think that it will make a difference.

Please fix this plugin. I love the concept! The execution was terrible!

Doesn’t follow accepted best practices.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by btreece84.

It’s helpful. Worth trying.