Is WordPress Cracked (GPL/Nulled) plugin/theme safe? What are the drawbacks? Where to buy it reliably?

Is WordPress Crack plugin/theme safe? This is the majority of the use of cracked plug-in users of the doubt.WordPress website building need to use a theme and numerous plug-ins, less than a dozen or more dozens. Although WordPress is an open source program, there are tens of thousands of free themes + plug-ins, but most of the free features and results are not satisfactory.

To have a website that works well and has cool features you still have to use a paid theme/plugin, for exampleAstra Pro, , ,Wp Rocket, , ,Rank Math Pro, , ,Elementor ProAnd so on. Paid which are good, the only drawback is expensive, each plug-in needs to spend a few dozen dollars a year to renew, combined down to a site a year may have to spend thousands of dollars to renew the plug-in.

Men have less spending power than dogs, and the vast majority of webmasters are unlikely to spend that kind of money on paid plugins. But you want to have a good website with cool features, what should you do? Cracked version of the perfect solution to this problem, only need to spend a very small amount of money (or even do not spend money) can use the paid version, the same features and effects.

Cracked version can also be used as a pre-purchase test, want to buy a plugin / theme but do not know whether it meets their needs? You can buy a cracked version to try it out first, and then buy the official paid version if you are satisfied. Minimize your losses.

Difference between Cracked, GPL, Nulled and Legitimacy

Cracked version is the domestic name (also called happy version, green version), foreign called GPL or Nulled, they are actually the same thing. It is worth stating that although it is a cracked version, but thelicit. Because WordPress is an open source program that follows theGNU General Public License.

It is worth mentioning that DedeCMS (Dream Weaving Content Management System))commencing commercial license fees on or about October 26, 2021, itscopyright ownerDredge has been suing non-paying commercial users since then. In one of the cases, the Wuxi Intermediate Court recognized the GPL license of DedeCMS as free for commercial use.

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According toThe Official WordPress StoryAll themes and plugins belong to WordPress derivatives, naturally comply with the GPL agreement, which allows you to modify and distribute the software at will. To put it simply, you can legally use/crack the licensed plugins, and even sell them.So feel free to use GPL-type themes and plugins.It's legal for commercial use, so you don't have to worry about copyright infringement or anything like that..

Google search "GPL plugin" can see a lot of selling GPL plugin website to put Google ads, these sites generally at the bottom of the plug-in from a third party, according to the GPL agreement legal sales. So it is not illegal to sell or buy cracked plugins.

We also sell them at Diamo Builders!GPL Themes/Plugins (procured from official foreign GPL sites), as well as official purchases from theGenuine theme/plugin key activation. It's not really profitable to sell these things, the main idea is to provide safe and reliable themes/plugins for people to use, to help people make good websites and step in fewer potholes.

Here is a shallow chat about the cracked version of the plug-in views, I hope to relieve the doubts in your mind, know how to choose the cracked version of the plug-in.

WordPress Crack Plugins/Themes Industry Overview

Cracked version (GPL) plug-in themes / plug-ins sold in foreign countries has formed a complete industrial chain, first understand the whole industrial chain overview, to help you judge.

Crack need to first go to the official purchase of the original theme / plug-in to get the latest version of the plug-in installation package, and then remove the plug-in license verification function code, re-packaged into the installation package for sale. Therefore, the cracked version of the plugin can be used by directly installing it, without the need to enter an activation code or the like, and can be used on countless websites.

It is worth stating that there are very few plug-ins of the professional version (Pro, Premium) of the function does not run in the installation of the server, but in the author of the remote server to run (for example, Wp Rocket delete useless CSS function), this need to verify the activation code in order to use, can not be cracked. All some plug-ins do not have a cracked version, some plug-ins part of the function can not be cracked.

The regular crack version of the resource only remove the activation code verification code, will not modify any other code, very safe. Many foreign websites will write 100% source code in the product details, this is the meaning. Some black-hearted merchants will be implanted in the code of external links, viruses.

Cracked plug-ins do not cost a lot, buying a genuine plug-in at least a few tens of dollars a year, and have to be renewed every year. Cracked version of the resource market is small, big competition, doomed to business will not be very good. There are new versions have to be re-cracked and then packaged on the shelf is very time-consuming, the server is also expensive.

So there are only a few source manufacturers in the world that have the strength to crack and update hundreds of thousands of cracked plug-ins in a timely manner, and they are more expensive, often in the form of selling membership packages to make a profit. The vast majority of sites selling plug-ins are "buying" from them.

Foreign sites selling them are usually $4~8 USD each, even $35 USD. Some are valid for a lifetime, some are valid for 1-2 years. Domestic, we are selling at a relatively low price, 19 dollars a lifetime, other counterparts need 25-35 dollars a, W Xiaoduo even go to more than 100 a plug-in.

Selling cracked resources is not a good business and is basically unprofitableBecause the domestic Wordpress audience is too small, know GPL resources and will spend even less. There are a few domestic sites in the sale of this stuff, and they have to compete with SEO and other traffic to have business.

How do you think you can make money selling Wordpress crack resources? Do collection site, tool site or blog site with heart, hanging a Google ads are faster than it to money. Our site to sell these resources to earn money a year barely cover the server and CDN costs, labor is a pure loss, if this for the industry we have starved to death.

Most are run by 1-2 people because they don't make money. Those sites selling hundreds or thousands of resources are basically unable to do timely updates, provide reliable human service, and are in a half-dead state. At any time may be cut off or run away. Selling high prices and even deleting the user's purchase record every once in a while is quite understandable.

We know a saleshow off or flauntWordPress crack resource site, it is the webmaster working outside, home from work at night to run the site, update plug-ins, reply to customer messages. This can only be a side business to earn pocket money, rely on it to live a day hungry three.

WordPress Cracked Theme/Plugin Cons

Just because a crack isn't illegal doesn't mean it's safe to use a cracked theme/plugin. There is no good or bad code, but there are good and bad people. We often see cases where the use of cracked plugins leads to problems with the website, and there are several major problems with cracked plugins.

Issue 1: May contain malicious code/virus

Generally from the regular channels to buy the theme/plug-in security are good, people want to make money will not be stupid to their own products to poison. For example, we sell resources from foreign formal website to buy, after anti-virus verification, they are also using. Determine that there is no problem before they dare to sell on the shelves.

Some people will intentionally insert viruses into plug-ins to steal information or traffic from websites. Common viruses will lead to access to the site automatically jump to other sites (gambling, pornography, 2C e-commerce sites, etc.). Serious points may lead to the inability to log in the background, a little more secretive only from the Google search results click on the site will jump.

The vast majority of questionable themes/plugins are from the webFreeDownload. As stated above there is a cost to obtaining cracked plugins, and people share them out for free for everyone to download, there is a possibility that they are the pits. There are also some regular websites that provide safe and free resources to get traffic, and profit from displaying Google ads through their websites.

For example, we at Diamo offerFree Latest Elementor Pro DownloadThe online templates are safe and non-toxic and can be updated and used online. Free resources are provided to drive traffic to the site and to help those in need.

Recommended for use after purchaseVirustotalFree online security tools detect whether the plugin contains malicious code. Our plugins are tested by Virustotal to be free of viruses before they hit the shelves.

Problem 2: With advertisements, external links

Some plugins/themes will implant other websites' URLs or names into the site as a way to advertise and drive traffic, and do SEO. the vast majority of free themes/plugins have this problem, and some of the paid ones do too.

Implanting external links may cause a decrease in the SEO weight of your website and affect your Google rankings. It is recommended to ask the website customer service before purchasing the plugin, whether the brand name or external links are added inside the plugin. We sell all resources without implanted ads and external links.

The image below is what Little D paid to download from the Station X Gang websiteFluent Forms Pro plug-in Chinese packageBy means of theLoco Translate pluginModifying the translation reveals that they have inserted the brand name as well as a link to their own website. It's a matter of opinion whether this behavior is good or not, so I won't comment on it.

UseRank Math(below) and other plug-ins can add Nofollow to the external links to avoid bringing bad effects to SEO.

Issue 3: Slow updates, broken updates, incomplete information

Analyzing the cracked plugin industry above has said that it's not a good business. The cost is not low, updates are time-consuming and laborious, and sales will not be very good (after all, the user base is small).So selling cracked plugins is basically unprofitable, and it's possible that you won't even make back the server money.

So many sites selling cracked versions of the site will appear to update resources slower, or even run out of road (cracked version can only upload a new version of the installation package to update). We purchased the plugin many years ago on xxtech.com, but suddenly the purchase record was cleared during the validity period, so we couldn't download it and contacted customer service without any response.

There are a few famous websites that sell cracked versions, such as M Yung, ZZ Gang, XK Technology, W Xiaoduo and so on. Either the update is slow, or the price is too high, and none of the information is very complete + customer service support thoughtful.

Our Diamo main business is to help foreign trade enterprises to build 2B foreign trade independent station as well as cross-border e-commerce independent station, also undertake Google SEO optimization as well as website speed optimization. SellingGPL Themes/PluginsMainly trying to help people with themes/plugins that are safe and work well.

Our plugin sales page is written in detail, pure dry goods, but also timely updates. Wp Rocket, W3 Total Cache, Rank Math and other plug-ins are also dedicated to spend a huge amount of time and effort to create the use of tutorials. In fact, we sell themes / plug-ins each year just to cover the server costs, labor costs pure loss.

You may wonder why we are selling this stuff if it's not profitable. There are a few reasons: 1- To drive traffic to the site; 2- I'm a good old boy, I like the satisfaction of helping others; 3- Obsessive-compulsive disorder, I want to share when I have something good.

Problem 4: No customer service, no after-sales service, irresponsible, abandonment of change/deletion of orders

No customer service:Selling something for 10s of dollars and not making any money, if you are a merchant I guess you won't be able to provide attentive human service. Now the whole network to sell crack version of the plug-in site manual service are very limited, the most is to leave a message to send an e-mail, fast if 1-3 days to reply, slow if there may be no reply.

After-sales service is actually quite important, most of the plug-ins to buy is a small white, encountered problems rely on their own can not be resolved. If there is no customer support, Baidu time-consuming and laborious is not necessarily a solution. It is recommended to buy plug-ins before understanding the site customer service support. That said, even if you buy a genuine customer service is to let you see the tutorial, will not help you set up, the response is also slow.

After-sales/responsible:! Dee used to buy cracked resources from some website thatThe detail page says normal use, and when I bought it, I found out thatUnable to use all Pro features. The other party admits that there is a problem with the plugin, but they will not refund the money only willing to return the gold coins on their site as compensation.

The other side is very irresponsible: 1- Selling unusable plug-ins as usual, merchandiseThe detail page says it can be used normally; 2- Refused to refund and was only willing to return gold coins from their website, which violates consumer protection laws and is not ethical; I only got my money back after I complained to **; 3- Froze my account after the refund, and I couldn't download any of the resources that I had previously purchased.

So make sure to buy things atfor the recordThe official website of the purchase, you can find the main body of the website. The other side ignores us, but the law will, as long as theloud noiseIf you are reasonable, you are not afraid. Usually how to do well themselves, abide by the law and be reasonable, in order to go farther.

We Diamo sell resources to install their own test, to determine the normal use of the shelves for sale, if very few Pro features can not be used normally will be explained in the details page. If you buy it and find that the function is abnormal (maybe the new version has problems or the server is incompatible or something like that), we will refund you immediately.

Even some plugins upstream abandonment of the update, the subsequent can not be updated, we will refund. Then downgrade the plugin or special instructions in the details page, will not let the consumer eat a dumb loss.

Even sometimes the plug-in normal use, because the purchaser will not use their own or deliberately pick faults a bunch of complaints is very difficult, Diamo consider the after-sales costs will also be refunded, this situation may be pulled the other side to avoid subsequent trouble.

It is recommended to buy resources from sites with high prices, better customer support, access to human beings, and timely responses. Although our price is low, but also provide timely response service. Scanning on the right side can contact WeChat customer service, no need to add friends to chat directly, there are questions basically must be answered.

Abandon more:99% sellers are directly from the upstream to buy crack resources, will not buy their own crack. Genuine plugins/themes need to be renewed annually, many resources have a small number of users, in order to profit upstream will give up updates.

Plugin authors also actively combat cracked resources by asking purchasers not to provide installers to platforms for cracking, contacting platforms to take down their own resources for trademark infringement, etc, etc. We have received 2 warning emails from Wp Rocket to take down their resources.

To summarize.A lot of non-popular resources have a high probability of abandoning the shift later in life. Sites that sell hundreds or thousands of resources will have a ton of resources that can't be updated at a later date. At this time the purchased user will ask for a refund or something like that, the merchant will most likely not accept it and will pretend to be silent and not reply.

Seller's inner OS: would not make money, but also provide products, services, customers also used for a period of time have enjoyed, I can not lose money to eat into the spit out.

Tip: No matter which website to buy cracked resources, it is recommended to save screenshots of the details page, personal center, purchased resources, and purchase records. Subsequent problems can be paid to the payment plug-in official, the relevant departments to complain, basically can get a refund.

That's why we control the resources at about 100 and only pick popular resources, so that we can have good stability and long-term development. Even if you can't update it at a later stage, the amount of refund is also within control, and you won't lose a lot of money. A site long-term use of cracked plug-ins generally no more than 8, we only sell 100 resources enough.

Delete purchase history/runs:Merchants abandon more resources, more complaints will be difficult, but also may suddenly do not want to continue to sell plug-ins, this time may run. Xiaodi just contact to do foreign trade website that will, in the XK technology network to buy a few resources. At the beginning of the QQ customer service has replied to the question, a few months after the purchased record was deleted (in the validity period), can not download the resources to re-buy, customer clothing death does not reply.

I've also encountered a merchant that updates all plugin version numbers in a very timely manner, making people think it's the latest version, but the installer is still old. So when buying GPL resources, you must mustparticularGo for a formal, reliable place. It is best to have a record, the regular company in operation. The most important thing is that the plug-in can not be used properly must support the refund!

Issue 5: Incomplete functionality, free version displayed

Some plugin features run on the maker's server and not on the server where the plugin is installed, thus requiring secret key authentication. Cracked/GPL versions can't be verified by the server of the other party, so they can't use some functions. For example, Little Rocket's function to delete useless CSS requires a link to the official server, which is not available in the GPL version, so you can only use the asynchronous CSS loading function.

This kind of partial functionality unavailability is rare, only in Wp Rocket a few plugins, the vast majority of GPL plugins all functions available. Generally need to use the author server function of the plugin are not cracked, there is no GPL version, such as FlyingPress plugin.

There are a few GPL plugins that are not fully cracked and will still show up as a free version or show that the Premium version (Pro) features are not available. In fact, all features have been cracked.The Advanced Version (Pro) feature works fine, it just shows as unavailable.

For example, WordFence plugin cracked version will show the content of the following chart, in fact, all the functions of normal use, ignore the prompts on the line. This crack is shown as a free version or Pro function is not available only a few plug-ins, most of them are perfectly cracked.

For the vast majority of users, the above 2 problems is not a problem, as long as the plug-in normal use, the effect does not have any impact on the line. However, some people take a cracked version of the plug-in to build a site for sale, not with their customers to explain is a cracked version, and even publicityYesGenuine version, great comments from customers who found out it was cracked. For these people I recommend buying the official version, which is perfect in every way.

Issue 6: Unethical & Vague Trademark Laws

In fact, the genuine paid plug-ins have a large part of the cost of manual after-sales service, cracked version of the plug-in can not enjoy the official customer service support. Cracked version of the plug-in we feel that the impact on the genuine version is not very large, buy cracked version of most of the white whoring party, will not spend money on the paid version.

WordPress helps people to build websites at low cost for the benefit of the public. Our main purpose of selling GPL resources is also to help you, to provide you with low-cost, reliable plugins/themes. However, the cracked version is plagiarized after all, morally unjustifiable.

People team production, maintenance plug-ins to update the genuine plug-ins also need manpower and material costs. There is a genuine version of the cracked version, the ability to allow or hope that we buy the official plug-ins, so that there will continue to be high-quality plug-ins and themes. The entire WordPress ecosystem will be better and better.

Moreover, the cracked version of the resource may be involved in trademark infringement, the following picture is the Wp Rocket plugin company sent us an email. Wp Rocket does not allow us to use the trademark "WP Rocket", let us deal with it, or we will use legal means.

I'm selling plugins for 19 bucks a pop, providing instructions and after sales service, and taking risks. Now you know how much effort we put in to make everyone use cheap and safe plug-ins. Understand why I said selling GPL resources is not a good business, not profitable, and most of the peers do not long it.

According to the trademark law, toIndicative descriptionIt is not illegal to use someone else's trademark for this purpose. We sell a forked version of the plugin and use its trademarked name to show that our product is derived from the plugin and has the same functionality as the plugin, so it is not illegal.

Just make it clear on the product detail page that the other party has not licensed it to us, and that Diiaomo is selling a GPL distribution not the official official version.

How to pick a safe and quality cracked plugin?

First of all, we must go to the regular channels to pay for the purchase, free download crack version of the resources try not to touch. Formal selling crack version of the plug-in website design is more formal, the bottom of the basic will have the record information, there is a responsible body will not be too messy.

The next step is to see if the resources have passedVirustotalOur plug-ins are tested by 3 security tools and are non-toxic and safe. Some sites that sell crack resources do not state whether they are tested, it is recommended to ask the business first, or to take their own non-toxic test before use.

Also avoid themes/plugins that implant external links, this will reduce the SEO weight of your own site, pass SEO weight to the other side for free, and help others to do graft. The vast majority of websites do not say whether or not they implant external links, so it is recommended to ask the merchant before purchasing.

Finally, you have to consider how fast the resource is updated and how well the human service works. It was mentioned above that selling cracked plugins/themes is not profitable and may break suddenly. Before buying, see if the version of their plugins is the latest, if so, it proves that the business is updated in time. If they are generally a few versions behind, be cautious.

Single Site Key Activation Plugin VS Cracked Plugin

Some plugins and themes officially sell unlimited site/multi-site keys (activation codes), valid forfirst yearEven long term/lifetime validity. The average cost per site is very low, so some key buyers start to sell activation codes for profit by single site activation. For example, in xx.com, you can buy the original for more than 10 dollars.WPML Translation PluginSingle site key activation service for life.

We do not recommend purchasing these single site Key activation services.Because sooner or later these Keys will expire and there is a good chance that the seller will run away without after salesThe plugin and theme merchants are not stupid, they won't allow this kind of resale behavior. Plugin and theme merchants are not stupid and will not allow this resale behavior, and their official website policy page must have written that abuse and resale of Key is not allowed.

In the early days, in order to develop they launched cheap multi-site key, and keep silent about the abuse, resale behavior. In fact, they all know exactly, there is monitoring data in the background. After the pig is fattened up, the violations are strictly investigated and the key is disabled (capitalists have a deep set of ah). So if you buy a single site activation key, sooner or later it will fall.

Astra officials did this at the beginning of 2024, disabling a large number of unlimited site, lifetime valid keys, and we were not spared. Diamo had to re-buy overpriced package keys to offer to purchased users to continue using them, and some customers chose to get refunds, which was costly in terms of monetary loss and time.

We are a formal enterprise, have the responsibility to bear the user will be responsible for, so do not worry about buying products in our place or activation code off and so on, will be after-sales. But if you buy in the irregular site, after the incident, people slipped away, no way to complain.

WordPress versions and plug-ins are updated frequently, if a plug-in is not updated for a long time there is a high probability that there will be conflicts and problems with the site. So the activation off must be dealt with, either change the key to activate (may again out of the problem or the price doubled several times), or switch to a cracked version. Genuine version switch to crack version may cause the site out of error.

That said, the Key activation plugin is still better than the cracked version, with the ability to update online in the background. Just look for the right place to buy it, and be careful about screening.

All in all, GPL plug-ins/themes can greatly improve the effect of the website and reduce the cost of building a website, so it is worth having. It is recommended to buy from regular channels, understand the shortcomings of the corresponding plugins/themes and make sure that they can meet your needs before you buy.