13 Essential Coding Skills, Practices, and Capabilities for Plugin Developers in 2023
How do you stay on top of your game or get a foothold in WordPress plugin development in 2023? Good news: you don’t need a bunch of flashy tricks up…
How To Get Hired as a Remote WordPress Developer in 2023
You’re here, so you’re probably interested in a role as a remote WordPress developer 😉 With prospects ranging from handsome pay to siteless work, it’s no mystery these jobs are…
WordCamp Asia 2023: East West + Freemius Unites for an Unforgettable Celebration!
For the Freemius team, it was a story years in the making, with many a twist and turn along the way. But finally, at WordCamp Asia 2023, we traveled from…
Another Major SDK Change Following User Feedback – You Asked, We Delivered 📦
In our last user-facing release notes in November, we announced many big changes addressing around 90% of the concerns we collected. That said, some of the requested changes were infrastructural,…
Sell Your WordPress Business Profitably By Anticipating a Future Exit — Erick Danzer’s Best Practices
Have you considered boarding the ‘WordPress acquisition’ express and cashing in on an exit? Best start preparing early. In our new Gamechangers article, serial entrepreneur Erick Danzer explains how to…
Best 26 Gumroad Alternatives for Creators and Sellers in 2024
Gumroad is a popular eCommerce platform that lets creators sell their physical and digital products, courses, and memberships directly to customers. But the platform’s popularity took a dip following an…
Freemius 2022 Year in Review (+ Numbers) and What’s to Come in 2023
Wow! What a year 😅 We’ve been sending annual transparency report emails to our selling makers since 2018. This time, I decided to open it to the public to let…
Huge News! Freemius Launches State-of-the-Art Sales Analytics and Multi-Store Dashboard
A mega-project deserves a mega-announcement! The new Multi-store Dashboard is by far our biggest milestone and most complex deployment in 2022. More than a year’s worth of hard work —…
How to Create and Sell Elementor Templates and Kits to Cash In on No-Code
Ready to ride the no-code wave? Elementor Templates have revolutionized how we build websites, and there’s serious money to be made. These easy-to-create static themes have opened doors for both…
Freemius Is Open for Feedback — We’re Listening to Users & Making Big Changes
Unlike previous release notes where we update our selling makers about new features, this release is dedicated to plugin & theme users and covers all recent changes to address feedback…
Dual Perspective: Zach Tirrell’s 1st-Hand Experience with WordPress Acquisitions as a Buyer & Seller
In 2020, Zach Tirrell was tasked by Modern Tribe to help prep The Events Calendar for an acquisition, despite owning no part of the business. After Liquid Web took over…
Scaling vs Coding: Should You Hire a Lead Engineer for Your WordPress Business?
Do you hand over the coding keys to a lead engineer or do you keep them? This is a question most technical founders will have to answer as their WordPress…
Selling Static Products, Email Deliverability Issues Notifications, and Boosting WordPress.org Reviews
Welcome to the last part of our planned run of four release notes 💃 Let’s face it, page builders and Gutenberg are the future of WordPress site-building, and I’m pleased…
Customer Portal UX Improvements: Downloading Product Versions, Account Closing, Help Scout Docs Integration
We always deliver on our promises 😉 Here’s part three of our four planned release notes. As any software customer — developer or end-user — will attest, it’s pretty frustrating…
Affiliate Links Store Attribution, New Affiliate Portal, and More Affiliate Platform Enhancements
As promised, here’s part two of four planned release notes over the coming weeks. Affiliate programs are an invaluable marketing tool for driving extra traffic to product pages. Many of…