Welcome to Premium Plugins
We love WordPress. We're developers with over 20 combined years experience in the space and we owe a lot of our success to this awesome CMS. One of the biggest aspects that makes WordPress so great is...
View ArticleWordPress Premium Plugins 101
If you have a WordPress site, you're no doubt familiar with plugins. The WordPress official repository currently holds over 55,000 free plugins — impressive! But what is a premium plugin? What are...
View ArticleWhy Using Free Versions of Premium WordPress Plugins Is a Bad Idea
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Let’s say you’re researching and you found a great plugin fit for what you’re trying to accomplish on your site. It’s not free, though, and a...
View ArticleA Guide to Recurring Plugin License Fees
In the premium plugin license space, it's incredibly common for plugin licensing fees to require renewals every year (or month, for those paying monthly) in order to continue receiving updates &...
View ArticleHow to Handle Licensing WordPress Premium Plugins on Client Projects
Let’s look at the implications of using premium WordPress plugins on client projects including what makes the most sense for license fee handling. When a client approaches with a new build, typically...
View ArticleUpcoming ACF Pro Pricing Change on February 24th, 2020
If you want to grandfather into ACF Pro‘s current one-time licensing fee, time is running out. Starting on Monday, February 24th, 2020, Advanced Custom Fields Pro is changing its pricing model to be...
View ArticleRestrict Content Pro Acquired by iThemes
Yesterday it was announced that Restrict Content Pro has been acquired by iThemes, the company behind other premium plugins like BackUpBuddy. You can read the full post about the plugin joining the...
View ArticleAre You Actually Losing Money by Avoiding Paid WordPress Plugins?
We've seen it time and time again: WordPress users doing everything in their power to stick to free plugins. We get it. Who doesn't love free? However, by automatically throwing out anything that...
View ArticleHow to Improve WordPress Website Performance with Plugins
If you're hoping to improve the performance of your WordPress site, usually your first thought shouldn't be to add more plugins. However, there are some efficient utility plugins that can make huge...
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