He’s got a blog post there about how his plugin came to be banned but maybe someone here knows the backstory?. I was thinking that maybe he’d want to come over here and support CP with a free version but I do not know the quality of the plugin or anything about Otto (Samuel Wood) vs. Scott Allen, other than what I read at his blog, which was rather disturbing.
UPDATE I spent too much time reading blogs on his site and looking for connections to him on social. I was surprised to suddenly discover that my browser was blocked for suspicious activity. Not sure what that is about as all of us here, I imagine, would love to have visitors who read.
While I don’t know much about the plugin, I do know Scott Allen has been lashing out at a lot of people. While what he claims might be possible, I have also heard legitimate cases made that he used his plugin to block other plugins, which is against the WP rules for a good reason. So I dont know who to believe at this point.
I also fell foul of their firewall rules (seems like this is a very common occurrence).
Unfortunate as I bought a couple of licences for the new WP-Spamshield (previously had free version installed on most of my sites) and then was unable to access their support system due to this, and when I finally did manage to get through to their support they wanted me to jump through far too many hoops to pass their firewall.
I decided it was more trouble than it was worth running the new WP-Spamshield (and having to use Envato for updates) and have now moved on to WPBruiser which seems to work very well with ClassicPress.
Yeah, sounds like a waste of our time. Good to know others had the same problem. I started to get a stink the more time I spent around his work, unfortunately. Moving on…