Yes, you need Pro plan to publish if website is using pro features
I think it used to work without a Pro plan and people were upgrading to pro, then publishing then downgrading, then having all the pro features in production for free.
Yeah, that’s why i was confused. I thought I could publish before when updating the design
Yes, we added checks to the publish: if you are using pro features we are trying to monetize, you will need pro.
It was essentially a loophole before
Just a suggestion, even when it worked before, I actually just assumed I couldn’t edit those pro features but could still make design (free) updates. Is this a more fair solution than blocking the entire app?
Idk, to me generally using pro features means you are on a pro plan. E.g. we say we monetize CMS integrations - someone can build a CMS page, never touch it again, then keep building the rest of the site for free, while actually building a fully dynamic site.
Essentially changing pro features is only part of the value, or not a value at all, building a site that leverages Pro features is the value you are getting, even if you don't edit Pro features every time.
We could even make all pro features available for free in the builder and only ask for a Pro subscription for publishing, this would be probably even better, but I was afraid people won't understand what's pro and what isn't.
I see it from both sides. My issue is now my website on Webstudio is useless
If exporting and hosting on other platforms you still only need the pro plan while editing pro features, correct?
You just have to have it the whole time if using webstudios hosting
Now all pro features can be edited on free plan though publishing these features is possible only with pro one.
So not just on the self hosted version?
Wait what do you mean by publish
To self host website it is still need to be published
Oh I see so similar to before but you can edit before purchasing. Nice
Yeah, many tried to setup builder locally to try these features so we enabled them on free plan inside builder.
I saw that 😅 a lot of errors 😂
Wait a second. So it used to be that you had to pay to create the pro functionality and then it would be free after that if you were hosting the site elsewhere.
But now if you have pro features you have to pay each time you publish even if you're not changing something related to a pro feature?
Just when you change a pro feature?
You don't have to pay every time, you just need to be on a pro plan if you want to publish with pro features you are using. If you don't use pro features its free as it was before.
Well yeah by "pay" I meant have an active pro plan
I was just clarifying that now if you have previously published a site with pro features you have to have a pro plan whenever you update and publish even non pro features.
Not a great thing for me but maybe I'm just cheap 🤷♂️
If you don't use pro features you can publish for free
checks happen when you click publish
If you don't change or add any pro features?
So it's similar to before
we only check if you use pro features when you click publish
the difference is that you couldn't even use pro features before if you were not on pro plan, but you could paste pro features and then publish for free, we just added now the check on publish
