social-warfare

This developer has serious issues: Accepts your order, takes your money, then blocks you from any contact using WordFence.

I’ve been using Social Warfare without issue for a couple of years. Maybe a month ago I noticed that the option to upload social images for blog posts disappeared. I hadn’t added any new plugins or changed themes – I just kept current with updating the existing ones – so I contacted support. I was told that it must be a conflict with my theme or a plugin, and their solution was to have me use a different theme (note I use a well-constructed theme built on Elementor Pro). Seriously?! I did deactivate all non-essential plugins, but that didn’t solve the issue either. Then I noticed that this plugin hasn’t been updated for the latest version of Wordpress. Hmmmm… I got this plugin specifically to hide Pinterest images, so I’ll be cancelling.

Look is great and works as described.

You’ll be shooting in the dark just never knowing who is social sharing your posts/articles as the analytics don’t work; author knows this too. You’ll have no idea if users are sharing… yeah, just not worth it…

I have used Social Warfare for over 2 years. The support HAS NEVER been useful or helpful. I gave up on publishing the counts because it was too time consuming to send several emails to support; support only stalled if they replied at all. I am cancelling Social Warfare because they provide negative value.

This plugin might work a treat with smaller sites but was the biggest issue on a client’s site. In SWP’s defence this site has 16k+ posts and 1000+ visits per day. This information is from New Relic Application Performance Monitor. 12s of server use in one hour, just under Woocommerce and more than Yoast. 31.53% of all database calls.