Comments on: The Vocal Minority

By: Vermont Web Design

Vermont Web Design — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:36:06 +0000

I use your WP to Twitter plugin and I love it. People need to realize that most free plugins are made by people who have full time jobs and create plugins in their spare time. If you wanna complain about something, at least make a donation.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:51:58 +0000

That’s somewhat true, but I think you underestimate the value of small donations – just one or two dollars. With the number of downloads and approximate number of users I’d estimate I have, two dollars per person — with no extra donations for new releases or upgrades — would ultimately add up to somewhere upwards of $20,000 dollars. Although that’s hardly something that would make me wealthy, it would absolutely do a lot towards supporting continuing development. A payment really, truly doesn’t need to be very much to be good for a developer.

Premium plug-ins do frequently run in the $50-$100 range, but that doesn’t mean that a donation for a free plug-in needs to be anywhere in that same range.

Thanks for commenting, though — I appreciate what you had to say!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:47:01 +0000

“Nonetheless, I have no intention to discontinue support for WP to Twitter. Maybe it’s just an ego trip, but it’s certainly helped me build a thick skin…”

I applaud your “sticking with it”. I would just like to say that you are obviously doing something that you love doing, and you are not in for the money or you would be working for MS or some anti-virus company. Something to take not of though, when most people go to the WordPress platform, it is because of the ease of use and freely available plugins and help available. Many of the people that download plugins, (I am one), are newbies, and not even sure of what they need, or want from a plugin. Of the many plugins I have downloaded, I now only have 23 that I continue to use, one of which was a premium plugin. If I paid the same amount for all of the plugins that I have tried and deleted, and the ones that I still have, it would run into the thousands of dollars. Just saying…