How to make money with WordPress plugins

 How to make money with WordPress plugins

Do you want to sell your WordPress plugins and make money? But don't know how to sell WordPress plugins? First, you need to learn WordPress plugin development then you can follow this article. Because in this article we have discussed in detail the whole process of how to sell WordPress plugins and earn money. So right away, we should investigate:

Coders love to code. And some of them make a lot of money with their products. For example, the developers behind the popular theme "Avada" earn around 100,000 US dollars per week using the WordPress theme.

But not only through themes, but you can also earn huge profits. WordPress plugins are also catching up more and more. Hands down, which freelancer pushes that much income? None. Because these high sums cannot be achieved with just a time investment. Our daily working hours are limited. Time to finally sell the products.

Why Sell WordPress Plugins?

Why should you create and sell a WordPress plugin? The answer to this question can vary in many terms. For me, depending on personal preference, there are two main reasons:

Reason 1:

WordPress Plugins are a good source of income for me in addition to classic development work. As a web developer, I found myself in a situation that every freelancer has to go through when they lose big clients.

Simultaneously there was a financial emergency. This made the situation even worse. There were no new orders, previous orders were also canceled immediately. Suddenly you have no income and don't know how to pay the next rent. Existential concerns quickly arise. It's perfectly normal for this to happen.

but years later, thanks to my plugin sales, the world seems a lot better. Regular cash flow through passive income is a great thing. This made me a bit more independent and I didn't have to take on so many WordPress tasks anymore.

Just in the recent past, almost the same thing happened to a colleague I work with for a short time. Only one customer left him. The memories came flooding back. A frantic quest for raising money opportunities started for him. But that is usually difficult in such a situation.

Therefore, measures must be taken. And on the topic of pensions, I get to my second reason:

Reason 2:

Software has now become a kind of investment and one of the biggest economic trends for digital climbers.

From this point of view, you need to consider your own WordPress plugin as an investment in the future. After all, it can not only create a good source of income, but also a kind of capital investment.

Personally, I see more of a monetary benefit here, and at the end of the article you will learn that there are other good reasons why you should create WordPress plugins.

How can I develop a WordPress plugin?

Anyone who works with WordPress more often and successfully earns a living with it is destined for such a task. Not only myself, but also many of my customers often feel like this:

·         At some point, you will hit the performance limits of existing WordPress plugins.

·         The plugin is no longer in development.

·         Of the approximately 52,000 WordPress plugins in the official wordpress.org directory, there isn't one that fits a specific task.

·         There is no plugin for an existing special request.

The world is big and the chances of someone hitting the exact same limits as you are also high. So as a developer, if you have a solution to a certain problem, chances are someone else will need the same solution. So you don't have to sit and spend hours thinking about which plugin to develop. Ideas almost come naturally if you've been working with WordPress for a long time. The best part is that the plugins that are created this way are simply the best. Because only you yourself know best about your own problems and therefore can find the optimal solution.

What are the popular topics?

If you ask yourself why most WordPress users run a website, then you will inevitably come across the answer of making money. Personally, I am always interested in how you can help these WordPress users make more money with their website. And there can be several solutions to this. WordPress search engine optimization (SEO) plugins have an example of extensions that are always well received. Because they will hopefully help to better position in search engines. And that in turn helps to earn money.

How to begin

Basically, anyone can get started right away if they have a basic understanding of PHP development.To run WordPress, you want a locally running web server with a MySQL information base and PHP. This is all called the web administration stack. You can install it yourself or use existing tools. The most proven of them is XAMPP for Windows, which is available for all operating systems.

These tools offer the advantage of being able to dynamically set the following:

·         a web server (usually Apache or NGINX),

·         PHP version (usually from 5.2.x to 8.0.5)

·         as well as the version of MySQL (often 5.5 and 5.7 or MariaDB > 10.x).

Local by Flywheel (Windows, Mac) is my favorite. The program creates a custom WordPress environment in virtual Docker containers on a home computer. It was built for WordPress development and installs WordPress with every new site. So is the WordPress command line tool. The program is also interesting for anyone who just wants to try out WordPress quickly.