Jetpack has announced changes to its Jetpack Social plugin that may impact publishers who frequently share across social media networks. Previously, users could share an unlimited number of posts automatically via their connected social media accounts. Jetpack is shuffling its monetization strategy for this extension and has capped social sharing at 30 shares per month… Continue reading Jetpack Social Plugin Adds Paid Plan, Free Users Now Limited to 30 Shares per Month
Category: Plugins
Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin Now Ready for Testing
For more than a decade, WordPress developers have been discussing how core can support plugins that require one or more other plugins in order to work. Having a standardized way of managing plugin dependencies would be a useful and time-saving feature for developers, who currently have to roll their own solutions for this. “The situation… Continue reading Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin Now Ready for Testing
Over, Under, Around, and Through
WordPress Business News Roundup for the Week of October 3 This week Alex Denning (Ellipsis) draws on Iain Poulson‘s historical, high-level plugin data at WP Trends to offer some thoughtful, somewhat contrary, but practical and grounded perspectives on the value of Active Install Data. At the WP Watercooler and elsewhere, a realization seems to be… Continue reading Over, Under, Around, and Through
Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter
In 2019-20, only four plugins entered the space and broke into the upper tiers. These were Site Kit for Google, Facebook for WooCommerce, Creative Mail for WordPress and WooCommerce, and Google Ads and Marketing by Kliken. Has the WordPress.org repository become a closed shop, a tapped-out ecosystem where the winners have taken all? Here are… Continue reading Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter
Two Key Questions We Need To Answer
What are the best things the WordPress community can do to better support plugin developers and founders? Recent discussions around the Active Install data being removed from WordPress.org forces us to respond to this question if we believe a healthy third-party plugin market is essential to WordPress, as I do. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes… Continue reading Two Key Questions We Need To Answer
Till Krüss on Object Cache Pro, WordPress, Plugins, Testing, and Performance — Post Status Draft 127
Till Krüss explains how he found his way into WordPress and a successful business that’s solving the hard problems of caching and performance optimization. His work and business model suggest several areas of opportunity for developers and founders working in the WordPress plugin market today. Estimated reading time: 44 minutes Back in August, I had… Continue reading Till Krüss on Object Cache Pro, WordPress, Plugins, Testing, and Performance — Post Status Draft 127
Easy Digital Downloads 3.1 Adds 10 New Core Blocks, Introduces Email Summaries
Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) put out a big release today, following several maintenance releases and the last major release in July. Version 3.1 introduces 10 new core blocks available to users who are running WordPress 5.8 or newer: Buy Button Order History Products Registration Form Login Form Download Terms Receipt Confirmation Cart Checkout (Beta) These… Continue reading Easy Digital Downloads 3.1 Adds 10 New Core Blocks, Introduces Email Summaries
WordPress.org Plugin Developers Demand Transparency Regarding the Removal of Active Install Growth Data
Frustrations are mounting, as WordPress.org plugin developers plead with WordPress leadership to restore access to the active install growth data for plugins after it was removed last weekend without any public discussion. A ticket calling for bringing back the charts is home to a heated discussion on the matter but so far the developer community… Continue reading WordPress.org Plugin Developers Demand Transparency Regarding the Removal of Active Install Growth Data
Going from Agency to Products: The Story of Barn2 — Post Status Draft 125
From client services and agency work to a successful product business — Katie Keith tells Cory the Barn2 Plugins story in this episode of Post Status Draft. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Katie and Andy Keith started out as a WordPress agency almost a decade ago and then tried to break into WordPress products, first… Continue reading Going from Agency to Products: The Story of Barn2 — Post Status Draft 125
WordPress.org Removes Active Install Growth Data for Plugins
Over the weekend, WordPress.org meta contributors removed the active install growth charts for plugins, a key metric that many developers and a handful of services rely on for tracking. “Insufficient data obfuscation” is the cryptic reason cited for the charts’ removal, but the decision-making process was not transparent. In a ticket titled “Bring back the… Continue reading WordPress.org Removes Active Install Growth Data for Plugins