Rant: I spent $200 on a dark theme plugin that made my site look like a bad sci-fi movie

Bought a premium dark mode plugin for my client's site about three months ago. It promised 'automatic color inversion' and 'smart contrast.' Instead, it turned all the product images a weird shade of purple and made the text on buttons completely unreadable. I wasted a whole weekend trying to fix the mess before just turning it off and coding a simple theme from scratch. The client was not happy about the delay. Has anyone else had a plugin just totally ruin their color scheme?

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danieljenkins3d ago

Always test premium plugins on a staging site first.

keith_henderson3d ago

Was it really worth spending that much on a plugin when you could have just written a few lines of CSS to start with?