Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
When it comes to pricing WordPress plugins, this isn’t exactly new territory. In fact, I’d say when it comes to pricing any online service or product, there are already tried and true ways that prove to be useful given certain scenarios.
It’s basic economics, I suppose.
So this post isn’t so much about various ways to go about pricing WordPress plugins, but what opportunities we have as developers, designers, companies, and so on as the WordPress landscape continues to change.
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As you guys know, one of the things that I like to do for those of you who are regular readers is to provide giveaways for various software, applications, services, and products.
Today, I’m stoked to be offering up a giveaway for two web hosting options:
As usual, if you’re interested, there are more details below:
About three months ago, I published about on teasing Pressware.
Straight from the initial post itself:
But as years have passed, my focus has shifted, and I’ve begun to target specific things – namely WordPress and its tangential topics – I thought it fitting to label the business in that direction. Thus, The Pressware Company, or Pressware, for short.
And as of today, I’m proud to finally be releasing the landing page and the official launch of the brand.
I – along with a number of other contributors – have been working hard to close out issues and prepare the next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.
Sure, I’m excited, but while working on this particular plugin, I realized that for anyone who does work with a WordPress plugins either via git or Subversion, that you may be working with a mess of directories while trying to develop the thing.
It’s nothing that a symbolic link can’t fix, but first, let me explain the problem.
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Bateman. During this time, I was working at 8BIT and he was spending his summer working with us.
Because of a weird scheduling conflict, he ended up staying at my place for about three or four weeks. During that time, my wife and I had just found out we were pregnant, and we were playing parents to a twenty-something.
I kid, I kid.
Pun intended.
It was awesome having Bateman around, and it’s hard to summarize my overall opinion of the guy in just a few words. But, basically, he’s smart and he’s going places, and he recently started a blog that I think many of us should be reading.
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