Last week I launched an advertising campaign of sorts ( along with the new site! ) to where I released an update to my popular TB-Testimonials plugin that included a new tool that I dubbed TBar. TBar basically adds a ‘TB’ icon to the WordPress admin bar with a drop down menu which logged in users can use to see a list of my plugins, visit my website, and email me directly regarding quotes for plugin and or theme development (See screenshot).
Earlier I received notice (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tbtestimonials-tbar-wow-thats-ballsy-and-not-in-a-good-way) that a user felt betrayed by me and TB-Testimonials and said I “just ruined his fav Testimonal Plugin” with the addition of TBar in the last update. This makes me feel bad that one of my users isn’t happy and now I’m on a mission to find out how the rest of you feel about it and see if maybe we can come to a resolution. Not really sure what to do here, I feel like it could be a very valuable asset to my freelance business and bring in a lot of leads.
So who better to ask what happens next than my users themselves? Do we remove the request a quote stuff? Disable it by default and put a nag notice on the settings page? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Note that I’ve read the plugin guidelines at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/guidelines/ and I don’t feel like I’ve violated any of them.
-Travis