Pirating WordPress plugins
Pirating WordPress plugins
Ahoy fellow sea wolves and cannons lovers
I often make websites on WordPress (ecommerce, very packed websites)
And I have no money or intention to buy or pay for anything
But there are those plugins I want to use
I saw some websites that offer nulled plugins, but it seems they are injected with some bad stuff
Is there a way to clean them Or maybe some other way to get the plugins?
There's no way to "clean" them. Trust, I understand the desire, but I'm not sure using pirated plugins on production e-commerce sites is the best idea. If your website gets malware from it, your customer data is at risk along with the business itself.
Some plugins have simple variables to check if you purchased, and you might be able to change it in the plugin editor and get the full features. This won't work for plugins that phone home.
Very bad idea.
Very unhelpful reply
Very unhelpful reply
No, I would argue incredibly helpful reply.
Theoretically you shouldn't need to, who buys a plugin is entitled to its source code because it must be licensed under GPLv2 or later due to Wordpress's own licensing.
Despite that, I haven't dug much, but I am surprised I haven't found an alternate store that redistributes plain plugins without the paywall.
Are you sure you need the paid-for plugins, or could you get away with free (gratis) ones?I only do free plugins for now, but many of them are outdated, paywalled, etc
Sometimes I just want some feature, but have to forget about it because it costs $499 for adding a switch style button to somewhere, you know
By the way, yeah, why don't we still have an alternative market
That sounds pretty awful, don't know what to say really.
I should consider myself lucky that I touched WordPress only for a short period of time, the development experience felt really clunky to me. That also means I'm not terribly experienced, so I hope someone more knowledgeable can chime in