For whatever reason, the Bricks license glitched out on two websites, both happen to be on GoDaddy (different hosting accounts).
When visiting the license page, it was shown as “No license” even though the textbox was greyed out and couldn’t be edited. I had to click the button to first deactivate, so I could activate the license again and it was fine.
That’s one issue, random license glitch. But the main issue is that with the license glitched out, it fully prevented them from being able to edit their pages at all! It just told them the license was bad and they couldn’t even edit.
When I look at the FAQ for Bricks, it has this to say:
What happens if I cancel my subscription?
Once canceled, your license remains active until the end of your current billing period. After that the license status changes to “canceled” and you will no longer have access to updates, support, or our community templates.
But you can still edit your Bricks sites as before. As you won’t be able to receive updates, please be aware that running outdated versions of any software brings an inherit security risk with it.
At least according to this, if the license is “canceled”, they can still edit the site. But in my case the license became listed as “no license” even though it was previously activated just fine, and it blocked them from using it at all.
I don’t know what the solution is here, but it scares me to think one little license glitch will break the theme and nobody can edit anything. Shouldn’t they still be able to edit no matter what status the license is shown as? What could have made it think there is no license? This happened on its own, nobody was working on the site at this time, so I assume it could only be triggered by some kind of auto-update.
If anything, I just want to let it be known that a license glitch can stop the plugin from working. And I don’t think it should, given the nature of this as a theme and page builder, it essentially jams up the entire site.