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?

  • @[email protected]English
    16•7 months ago

    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.

    • @Gooey0210OPEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      This is the best comment so far! Interesting

      • @[email protected]English
        4•7 months ago

        And if your client (or client’s insurance) is just half-way competent, they will notice that some stuff have no activated license.

        You will end up in a world of pain.

        Just don’t do that.

        • @Gooey0210OPEnglish
          0•7 months ago

          I make websites mostly for myself, everything else for friends, or neighbors, etc

          Please, don’t teach me where I will end up, everything is good 😬 especially in a piracy community

          • @[email protected]English
            4•7 months ago

            The issue is, that unlike movies, games and others, these plugins are no harder to pirate, but way harder to hide. It’s not like a “Yeah, you could get in trouble.”, but more like a “If anyone catches you, you are not going to financially recover.”, which given the scope of clients (Fam, friends and yourself) and the fact, that these Websites are likely to be on the internet, is incredibly likely. Why not use a free and open source alternative?

            • @Gooey0210OPEnglish
              -2•7 months ago

              I’m a foss guy myself, running graphene os with no proprietary apps except pirated games in a separate profile

              “If anyone catches you, you are not going to financially recover.”

              Very sad to hear that pirates are afraid of something, I never get in trouble

              It’s really interesting to see somebody makes assumptions about me, especially strong assumptions 😄

  • @DrbreenEnglish
    7•7 months ago

    Very bad idea.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•7 months ago

    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?

    • @Gooey0210OPEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 months ago

        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