4 Things You Can Learn from 3 Wildly Successful Premium Plugin Authors
Superstar physicist Sir Isaac Newton famously admitted that, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
WordPress Developers: How to Choose the Best Support Platform for You
Successful WordPress plugin developers agree – a great customer support system is mandatory if you want your plugin to make it in the market.
How to Brainstorm New WordPress Plugin Ideas
According to Ecclesiastes, there’s nothing new under the sun. That thought certainly hits home when you’re trying to come up with an idea for the next must-have WordPress plugin. With…
Is CodeCanyon a Good Place to Sell Your Premium WordPress Plugin?
So, you’ve started out as a WordPress Plugin Developer and are looking to make it big. You may be looking for a means of successfully selling your plugin, or perhaps…
6 Reasons WordPress Plugin Developers Should Attend Business Conferences
A month ago, I participated in the Prestige Conference in Minneapolis. It was my second PrestigeConf, and my second WordPress business related conference–it was priceless!
8 Ways to Get Your WordPress Plugin Featured on Blogs
You’ve done it: You’ve written a WordPress plugin that addresses the most (Word)Pressing problem ever. Now, here’s the kicker: No matter how much time you’ve invested or how brilliant it is,…
Freemium WordPress Developers: Should You Provide Support for Your Free Plugin?
There’s no denying it: WordPress plugin support can be a real time suck. For particularly popular plugins with lots of users, support can stretch into hours-long sessions. With that in…
Premium vs. Freemium WordPress Plugins: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
If you’re new to WordPress plugin development You might be asking yourself whether you should release a limited, free version of your plugin with an option to upgrade, or maybe just…
A Guide to Optimizing Your Plugin’s WordPress.org Page (In 6 Steps)
With over 38,000 plugins in the WordPress directory, it can be difficult to make yours stand out and get people hitting the ‘download’ button. Your plugin page is really the…
Premium WordPress Plugins: 5 Things That Your Customers Expect
Developing an awesome premium WordPress plugin is a battle half won.
Discover Your Top-Selling WordPress Add-Ons Without Wasting Time
Many WordPress plugin developers have started to pursue the add-ons model to monetize their plugin, especially after seeing the great success of WooCommerce, which was just acquired for $30M by…
How We Increased our WordPress Plugin’s 5-Star Reviews by 700%
I’ve been working on my WordPress plugin, RatingWidget, for a while. It was clear to me from the beginning that the number of reviews and average rating were playing a…
5 Common Mistakes WordPress Plugin Developers Should Avoid
When you start off with plugin development, you can make a lot of mistakes. And that’s fine! We all make mistakes and that’s one of the best ways to learn…
Premium vs. Add-ons – Which is the Best Model for Your WordPress Plugin?
WooCommerce, iThemes Exchange and some other of the most successful WordPress companies have managed to build significant businesses with the add-ons monetization model. It’s very tempting just to follow them…
Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS
Is WordPress SaaS like plugins the future? In an interview for WPSchool, Matt Mullenweg mentioned that one of Automattic’s BIG and “silly” mistakes during their first years was not adding automated…