Intrusive WordPress plugin ads and poor support
Users experience frustration due to persistent promotional spam banners within the WordPress admin area that cannot be removed, alongside ineffective core functionality in the free version. Additionally, customers struggle with unresponsive or unhelpful customer support that fails to resolve plugin issues efficiently.
6 different people have complained about this since 23 May 2025, most recently on 15 Jun 2026.
No new posts for 146 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 15 Jun 2026.
- “Annoying “60% discount” banner which does not disappear.”
- “Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress — Pricey and frustrating unless you have the patience of Job..”
- “The constant “Exclusive offer – 60% off!” spam in the whole WP admin area is extremely annoying.”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
What goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 different people
- Since
- 23 May 2025 → 15 Jun 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint6100%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin — This plugin is a crap Annoying “60% discount” banner which does not disappear. Author literally lies in other topics that already fixed this issue, but after years of forced using of this plugin, I AM sure it is not fixed at all after all these years. Poor compatibility…
FrustratedSmash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress — Pricey and frustrating unless you have the patience of Job. [Note: at the end of a frustrating attempt to make this plugin work, even after purchasing the product, I gave up and removed it. They asked for an honest review, which I provided by their…
Frustrated…Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin — Exclusive offer spam The constant “Exclusive offer – 60% off!” spam in the whole WP admin area is extremely annoying. Impossible to get rid of it.
Frustrated…I’ve had ongoing issues with Custom Facebook Feed Pro for months now. I’ve contacted support many times and they rarely get back, or when they finally do they try to gaslight me by saying they’ve replied but it must have gone to my spam. It never has. I give the app 2 stars because it worked well for a while, but for…
…with the functionality of some of the settings in the ‘Pro’ version. I’ve wasted a week going back and forth with the support representative, with no resolution whatsoever. I don’t have extreme
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Why did it move?
Score 25.8 → 22.9 · 04 Nov 2026, 00:00 → 01:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Intrusive WordPress plugin ads and poor support a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 23 May 2025 and the most recent from 15 Jun 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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