Self-employed software engineer & web developer. Co-founder of 8BIT. Fan of JavaScript, WordPress, Rails, & building good things for the web. You can fork some of his work on GitHub and follow him on Twitter.
Recently, we discussed “How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository.” This article provided a solid explanation of the plugin repository, how to use it, how not to abuse it, and how to leverage it for success, even with premium plugins.
Now is a great time to be working as a WordPress developer: the community is active and growing, the platform has a solid API and the platform is under constant development. Despite these advantages, many developers have a hard time getting started building premium products.
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