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Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development

@Miroslav Glavic – I think you undervalue the price of a good plugin. Premium themes go easily for $80 each. You saying you’ve donated $80 in the past five years kind of proves one of the points of the post, that donations are NOT a sustainable, regular income for plugin developers. As a WordPress user you are not entitled to anything, whether it be free support, plugins, or themes. Just because that has been the norm doesn’t mean you should take it for granted.

I do custom plugins for individuals and business all the time. I’ve done pretty in-depth custom plugins that peaked over $1,000. Obviously that price is for custom development and not for a widely distributed plugin, but just to put things into perspective.

» Posted By John Kolbert On June 17, 2009 @ 8:24 PM

I’ve often wondered if there is a way to monetize the plugins I release. The problem is there aren’t that many so-called “Premium Plugins” available. It seems people are much more willing, or at least more comfortable, paying for a flashy theme as opposed to a plugin. But have you ever purchased a premium theme and had it not include 1-3 free plugins to give it its functionality?

I’ve only released a handful of plugins, so I’m sure someone like Lester Chan gets many more donations then I do, but if I get $50 in donations any given month I’m thrilled. If I don’t get any I’m not too surprised.

Currently I use my plugins many as a traffic source to bring clients in who need custom work done. That has been quite profitable for me and is how I’ll continue treating my plugins. I personally cringe at the idea of a paid support forum purely for the reason that post-release support is my least favorite aspect of any project. :)

» Posted By John Kolbert On June 17, 2009 @ 8:02 AM

WPWeekly Episode 53 – Interview With Daniel Scocco

WP v2.0.5, the release was named Ronan after Ryan Boren’s son (a WP lead developer).

» Posted By John Kolbert On May 2, 2009 @ 2:00 AM

WordPress Needs To Revise Post Revisions

@Flick – I’m actually not sure if it works retrospectively. My guess is that it doesn’t and that it will just prevent future posts, though I’m not positive about it.

» Posted By John Kolbert On January 24, 2009 @ 7:17 PM

I’m always a fan of not using a plugin unless I have to. Here’s a few tips to do it yourself. As mentioned above, the following added to your wp-config.php would limit revisions to a maximum of 2 for a post (older ones get overwritten by the newer ones):

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 2);

The following line would limit revisions to be saved once every two minutes (120 seconds) when added to the wp-config.php file:

define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 120);

To delete all revisions from your blog, execute the following SQL query from your phpMyAdmin:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

Hope this helps someone.

» Posted By John Kolbert On January 24, 2009 @ 1:41 AM