Hi Everyone,
You may or may not know that Nop-Templates.com as a nopCommerce vendor has a flagship product called Nop Ajax Filters.
In the past there were several attempts by nopCommerce vendors to copy this product, which we duly reacted to and stopped. In all these cases we decided not to make the information public because this would have been bad publicity for the nopCommerce eco-system.
Unfortunately the attempts to copy our plugins continue with the Nop Ajax Filters receiving the usual focus. So we have decided from now on to make every single case public in the community.
Who is in the spotlight this time:
http://dev-partner.biz/
They just released their new Product Ajax Filters plugin. And here is their demo website:
http://edost.dev-partner.biz/hp]http://edost.dev-partner.biz/hp
Just briefly inspecting the html code of the filters on the left panel we can see html classes that has a one to one 1:1 correspondence with the Nop Ajax Filters.
1. filtersGroupPanel
2. filterItemUnselected
3. data-option-id
4. data-optionsgroupid
But most blatantly here is what is also in the HTML:
specificationFilterPanel7Spikes
priceRangeFilterPanel7Spikes
They did not even bother to remove our 7Spikes brand suffix.
Now opening the CSS file of their filters:
http://edost.dev-partner.biz/Plugins/Widgets.PriceFilter/Themes/DefaultClean/Content/AjaxFilters.css]http://edost.dev-partner.biz/Plugins/Widgets.PriceFilter/Themes/DefaultClean/Content/AjaxFilters.css
It starts with:
/*
* Copyright 2014 Seven Spikes Ltd. All rights reserved. (http://www.nop-templates.com)
* http://www.nop-templates.com/t/licensinginfo
*/
The javascript code of the filters heavily depends on all these classes so opening the script:
http://edost.dev-partner.biz//bundles/scripts/tsdd7657psdlk1sfvjq5jjt851e0b_wi8xlliflafza1?v=xp0uUjqxmLAkmjNZ0YdnqlSg48s5n2YJQT0Ye6fcC5M1]http://edost.dev-partner.biz//bundles/scripts/tsdd7657psdlk1sfvjq5jjt851e0b_wi8xlliflafza1?v=xp0uUjqxmLAkmjNZ0YdnqlSg48s5n2YJQT0Ye6fcC5M
and just searching for the word 7Spikes finds us 35 occurrences.
So these guys did not even make the effort to rename not theirs, but our code.
Right now I can see that the plugin has already been removed from the Extensions section of nopCommerce so I hope http://edost.dev-partner.biz/ will remove it from all public websites before we take legal actions.
You must be wondering why we are making this public in the forum?
We are doing this because we believe that the attempts to copy our plugins will go on and that there must be at least history in the community of the vendors who blatantly tried to do so.