Free version lacks advertised features
Free version advertises or documents features such as shortcodes, front-end upload and categories that only the paid version provides.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 21 February 2021 · last reported 14 August 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners installing the Shared Files plugin for WordPress find that features advertised for the free version, such as shortcode embedding, front-end uploads and categories, are actually locked behind the paid tier.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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