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…
Custom Localhost URL Patterns, Refunding Without Fees, Subscription Cancellation Coupon, and More
What’s new with Freemius? A few days ago, we received an email from a partner raising concerns that we haven’t published any release notes in some time. Fair enough! Truth…
Chris & Artur of Extendify: WordPress Networking Strategies to Find a ‘Best Fit’ Buyer
WordPress networking strategies probably don’t immediately come to mind when you think of plugin and theme development. But Extendify’s Chris Lubkert and Artur Grabowski believe that networking is a crucial…
How to Deal with Nulled WordPress Plugins and Themes (and Their Users)
Nulled WordPress plugins and themes are bad news. You’ve invested time, effort, and resources into designing and building, and then people opt for nulled versions instead of legitimate copies. For…
Contributing to WordPress: The Good, the Bad & the Polyglot
Five months into my WordPress writing career, I watched a rerun of an old Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson admits that he doesn’t know a thing about how engines…
Two Years In: The Impact of COVID-19 on WordPress and eCommerce
After a period of massive growth that saw the majority of markets scramble online to survive, we’re entering a time of deceleration. Growth is slowing, the COVID-19 Stock Market bubble…
Shaping the Space & Driving Change: 56 WordPress Experts to Follow Online
Being a newcomer to WordPress can be daunting, especially when you’re a writer, not a developer, and have no great knowledge of the space. As I started this journey (AKA…