Lessons Learned from My First Commercial WordPress Plugin
I launched my first commercial WordPress plugin, WP Social Media Slider, about a year and a half ago. I’d never released a commercial plugin before, so there was a lot of trial and error. Throughout the process I learned (and am still learning) some extremely valuable lessons that will affect my future WordPress plugin development. If you’ve already traveled this journey you may feel like a lot of these lessons are no-brainers; I certainly feel that way as I look back at them. Hopefully, however, there are a few of you who are considering getting into premium WordPress plugin development and are wondering what to expect and how to proceed. Hopefully the following lessons will save you some time and stress, just as they’ve done for me.
1. Releasing a commercial plugin is a lot easier than I expected.
I’ve been writing plugins for my clients’ sites here and there ever since I began working within WordPress. I love using plugins for two main reasons:
They keep functionality modular
They make functionality shareable (at least between your own sites)
As I prepared to delve into the world of commercial WordPress plugins, I had a bit of uncertainty regarding how
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