Is it possible to HIDE/REMOVE development footer message with CSS and use development mode without changing to production version? Just hide footer message for publish ready-made websites. Is it legan and can we use it? We have 4+ website and want to use this options, if it possible. Please confirm. Thanks a lot.
Why ask this: we searched in this forum and there is similar case - people using Dewvelopment mode licenses with hiding footer code. Maybe is it legal. Is it true?
Sorry for the delayed response - it has been a full queue for the past few days and it can take a bit longer to respond.
Your membership comes with support for 3 live/published websites and 9 development/staging websites.
The situations that you mentioned from the existing tickets were taking place due to severe caching running on a customer's website where that message is still displayed on a production/live site but it should not be considered normal to use CSS for that purpose if you are not in a situation like that.
Usually, this is what I recommend for those situations:
Go here (https://wpml.org/account/sites/) > remove the current key > generate a new key that will not be set as dev site > copy the new key > go to your website's backend > Plugins > Add new > Commercial > unregister WPML from the current dev key and register WPML with the new key.
This should normally work.
Sometimes, clients have a hard time due to the way the server is set up and the message might still show up (especially when there's some severe caching active on the server).
So in situations like that, I recommend the CSS method. But CSS should not be used to benefit from this and to try to use WPML on more than the maximum limit of the membership a user is paying for.
For your current situation, it seems that you will need the Agency version which has an unlimited number of live websites.
I hope that you will find this answer helpful.
Kind regards,
Mihai Apetrei
This ticket is now closed. If you're a WPML client and need related help, please open a new support ticket.
