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Recommending & Bundling WordPress Plugins and Themes: Everything Developers Need to Know
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

Recommending & Bundling WordPress Plugins and Themes: Everything Developers Need to Know

There are a wide range of marketing opportunities that open up when plugin and theme developers ensure compatibility or integrate with 3rd party products. When new functionality becomes available to…

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Divi Kingdom Started Selling Through Freemius And Immediately Saw A Staggering 57% Increase In Revenue
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Divi Kingdom Started Selling Through Freemius And Immediately Saw A Staggering 57% Increase In Revenue

Today we bring you a very pleasing success story: Abdelfatah Aboelghit created the great WooCommerce Builder for Divi plugin, and had recently migrated it away from WooCommerce and started selling…

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Our Conclusions Moving Toolset & WPML From Lifetime Licenses To Automatic Yearly Renewals
Amir Helzer by Amir Helzer

Our Conclusions Moving Toolset & WPML From Lifetime Licenses To Automatic Yearly Renewals

My name is Amir Helzer, founder of OnTheGoSystems (makers of WPML and Toolset). In this article, I’m going to lay out the reasoning behind our recent move from Lifetime licenses…

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MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers
Alex Castro by Alex Castro

MooMoo Agency’s Simple Moves Build Strong Ties with WP Plugin Buyers

Vitalii Kiiko is a passionate and experienced WordPress plugin and theme developer, who recently provided us some great feedback and kindly agreed to share his story. He is a co-founder…

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Licensing, Billing, Themes Support, Bug Fixes – August Release Notes
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Licensing, Billing, Themes Support, Bug Fixes – August Release Notes

This is a major version release (89 commits) with many important bug fixes and significant enhancement of the licensing mechanism for the paid plugin authors. Bug Fixes Quotes Localization: I’m…

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Lifetime license for WordPress plugins – the right way!
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Lifetime license for WordPress plugins – the right way!

The post is a followup to WP Rocket’s Transparency Report – Why You Shouldn’t Offer Lifetime Licenses. The reason I was so intrigued by the title is because I was…

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