Remove support for SimplyRETS Pages in next major version

[CodyReichert]

Let's remove SimplyRETS Pages from the WordPress admin dashboard sidebar and the code that goes along with it.

This is not the recommended way of showing listing data and widgets, so I think it is misleading to have it as a major menu item after activating the plugin.

We have had a deprecation warning in the plugin itself, and in the plugin documentation, for a very long time. With #196 and similar upcoming changes, this is a good target for the next major version.

Current feature

The only thing this feature currently does, is allow you to automatically insert a short-code by filling out a form. Instead of this, we recommend simply adding short-codes directly to any page or post.

This gives you the benefit of being able to use WordPress' default new page or post options. Additionally, the form to generate the short-code doesn't support most of the available search filters.

Backwards compatibility

For anyone actively using these pages, the only solution is to download the latest release from before this version, whatever that may be. Install the plugin manually and disable auto-updates.

Future support

Disabling this now will give us a good path to supporting something similar to this that is actually use/recommended.

Feedback

If anyone invested in this feature sees this issue, please do leave a comment below and let us know what you think 👍