Thread: when to charge for wordpress plugin

Hi All,

i am a small time wordpress plugin author and currently all my plugins are in open source free soft arena having no cost.

but i am thinking of going for developing some plugin which i can monetize on.

can any one suggest is my way correct or i should continue free plugin dev and move on to find some other source of earning.

Make a you own portal to share info about wordpress and plugingns..

Provide free plugins and write there articles about wordpress. the you can make money by
+ Getting donation
+ paid service { when you get repuation people will start truting you and you can earn by selling your service like paid customization, wordpress blog maintanence etc. etc.
+ Advertisement on your blog..

You can sell WordPress plugins as long as:

1. There is a real need for the plugin and it does something very useful.

2. There isn't any competition with a free plugin.

3. The plugin is reasonably priced, such as $20 or $30 for a multi-site license. If the plugin helps to generate revenue (such as phpBay Pro or a shopping cart) you can charge much more.

It can be hard to find a plugin solution that fulfills all three.

I also like jakki's ideas, although I suspect that donations are not easy to extract from most web users.

Hi,

Another idea you might want to try is to post an ad in the BST area. That you do wordpress plug in work. I know I would like to have a few made or fixed for my needs, just like the one you did for me here.

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If you decide to do that PM I have a few more I would like, that I would be happy to pay for.

Sami

Promote the addon and write articles, press-release for the exciting features and do provide the basic features free of cost and redirect the page for the advance features to the payment page.