You may have a good idea for a Wordpress plugin, and you may have invested a lot of time and energy into developing it. You are so enthusiastic about it and can’t wait to show it to the world. You realize that there are many other Wordpress plugins out there. You look around the Web and find very few tips about promoting your plugin! That’s why, we the Thoughtpickers, decided to put all we have learnt as well as a couple of days of research into this (hopefully comprehensive) article.
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Thoughtpick’s 14 pieces of advice to promote a new Wordpress plugin:
- Offer it for free: We realize that you most probably need some income in order to maintain and support your plugin, but people like free stuff. If it is new, then people would want to try it first. Try to offer a free version, and at a later stage, try offering some special features for a small fee. Some developers depend on donations to sustain their plugins, but that is usually not enough, check out other advices for sustaining your plugin financially here.
- Easy to install and use: Make sure that your plugin requires only few steps to get installed or people would simply get bored and abandon it all together. Check out how simple is installing Twitter for Wordpress plugin – it displays your latest tweets on your blog and only requires one easy step to install.
