Podcasts about freemius

Freemius is built for momentum so your software can ship faster, adapt smarter, and scale without friction. This release brings back high-impact features (hello there, billing cycle selector), unlocks smoother...

Freemius just got even more powerful! We're constantly refining the platform to make software selling smoother, more flexible, and scalable for makers like you. This month's updates bring more automation,...

Happy to report that I got safely back home from WordCamp Asia 2025. As always, it was a wild and wonderful time catching up with old friends, making new ones,...

Freemius is built on collaboration — within our team and within our community of software makers. As we move beyond WordPress to encompass software making as a whole, our brand...

Say thanks and learn more about our podcast sponsor Omnisend. In this episode of the WP Minute+ Podcast, Matt welcomes Laurence Bahiirwa, a WordPress developer at Freemius and the creator of the TechiePress YouTube channel. Laurence shares his journey from being a high school ICT teacher to freelancing and eventually landing a role at Freemius. He discusses how his YouTube channel played a crucial role in securing his current job, acting as both a portfolio and proof of his expertise.The conversation explores content creation challenges, the importance of balancing a full-time job with a YouTube channel, and how AI is transforming WordPress development. We also explore the role of WordPress in education, how it serves as a gateway for aspiring developers, and how AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot make coding more efficient. He also gives insights into Freemius' latest initiatives, including improvements in data portability for plugin and theme sellers.Key TakeawaysWordPress as a Career Path:Laurence started as a high school teacher before transitioning to freelancing and Freemius.His YouTube channel helped him stand out in job applications.WordPress serves as a foundation for learning broader web development skills.Content Creation & YouTube Journey:Laurence started creating videos to fill gaps in WordPress development content.Balancing content creation with a full-time job is a challenge.Technical videos require significant preparation and editing time (6+ hours for a 15-minute video).AI & WordPress Development:Using AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot for development efficiency.AI accelerates problem-solving but still requires human oversight.Laurence sees AI as a tool for educators to enhance learning, not replace it.Freemius & Data Liberation:Works on improving data export options for Freemius users.Freemius has trained an AI-powered bot to assist with documentation searches.Emphasizes transparency and control over user data.Important LinksThe WP Minute+ Podcast: thewpminute.com/subscribeLaurence's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@techiepressConnect with LaurenceTwitter/X: https://x.com/omukiguyBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/omukiguy.bsky.socialWebsite: https://omukiguy.com/Freemius: https://freemius.com/ Support us for as little as $5 to join our members-only Slack group. ★ Support this podcast ★

A new era of Freemius has begun. Not just a fresh coat of paint or a superficial reskin, but a complete reimagination of the platform and how we support software...

Last week, software makers worldwide faced a crisis: MyCommerce, a long-standing payment and eCommerce solution owned by Digital River, abruptly shut down and filed for insolvency. For many, this is...

What started as payment delays and forced contract changes in mid-2024 has escalated into full-blown insolvency for MyCommerce. This leaves software makers without access to earnings and scrambling for answers....

What happens when a community comes together to make a change? Yesterday, we witnessed the answer as software makers across the globe united for our 24-hour fundraising campaign in support...

Today marks an important chapter for Freemius and a step forward for tech diversity. As we celebrate 10 years of empowering software makers, we're kicking off a 24-hour fundraising campaign...

We're always exploring new ways to enhance the software-selling experience for makers and their users. These new Freemius release notes mark an exciting milestone as we begin expanding our support...

It's hard to believe ten years have passed since Freemius first came to life. What started as an idea to help solo makers and indie hackers pursue their passions has...

Refreshed and reconfigured to boost conversions and maximize sales price, the new Freemius Checkout has officially launched and is in production! The best part? The new Checkout is the result...

It's official — we've launched plugin.fm Season 2 and we're thrilled to share what's in store

We don't talk about failure nearly enough in the software world ☠️ The mistakes and hard lessons learned from %^&*@!#ing up spectacularly are stepping stones to successful product development, as 18 experienced software entrepreneurs attest to in our Fails video. Freemius founder and CEO Vova Feldman says it's better to fail nine times and succeed […]

Learn more about selling WordPress products and the industry with expert Vova Feldman, the founder of Freemius. The post Selling WordPress Products with Freemius Founder Vova Feldman appeared first on LMScast.

At some point, most WordPress plugin developers will ponder the possibility of transitioning to SaaS

Both WordPress plugins and SaaS products offer perks as software models

Over the past few weeks, our team has dealt with an XSS security vulnerability in the Freemius WordPress SDK. Due to the unique nature of WordPress being an open-source ecosystem, our WordPress SDK, and all products using the SDK are open source — making the patch-planning and execution trickier than software in closed ecosystems. The […]

On the podcast today we have Vova Feldman, the founder of Freemius. Vova is an entrepreneur with a passion for software development. He was introduced to WordPress by accident. While working as a software developer in the Israeli intelligence and doing startups on the side, Vova created a SaaS product as a hobby. People started requesting a WordPress plugin for his product, which sparked his curiosity about the platform. Vova delved into WordPress and created his first plugin, realising the potential of turning his side project into a WooCommerce solution. This led to building a platform to help developers easily commercialise their own passion projects - Freemius, a platform that simplifies the process of bringing products to market. The conversation is varied, covering two quite different subjects, podcasting (Vova's new podcast) and Freemius. If you're interested in selling your WordPress product, this podcast is worth a listen.

After two years of assembly, countless hours of planning, meticulous research, never-ending reviews, and scrutinous editing… It's my pleasure to announce that Freemius is getting into the podcast game with the plugin.fm software product business podcast!

For the Freemius team, it was a story years in the making, with many a twist and turn along the way. But finally, at WordCamp Asia 2023, we traveled from all over the world to meet in person, face to face, for the first time! Meeting each other was as awesome as we'd hoped, and […]

Learn from the owner of Freemius, Vova Feldman, as he talks with  Cory Miller about the opportunities for indie developers, how to best bring products into the industry, the importance of community, and more.Top Takeaways:Living in an Open Source Ecosystem. Developers don't need to reinvent the wheel. With such a large ecosystem of products, finding a secret niche spot to develop your product isn't always the best or even attainable solution. Doing something better than the next company is sometimes all it takes for great success.The David and Goliath Struggle. It's obvious that there has always been and will continue to be an unbalanced level of success between independent WordPress product owners and large companies. But that's not to say there isn't room for everyone; there is. An independent startup can move much faster into achieving short-term goals and growth than large-scale established companies can with a heavier workload and slower forward movement.Valuing Community Over All Else. The WordPress community is what drives the future of WordPress. It's not so much all the great new things the system offers but the people behind the process. Taking that same thought into your business, making people the center of your solutions, is an undeniable way to create a business that is surrounded by community.Removing Language Barriers. Creating website language translation is becoming more of a priority. It ties in with the need for developing a better user experience for your customers. Your community needs a specialized way to interact with your products and site. That's one main task Vova's team is tackling for their customers this year

The lines between the open-source WordPress.org and its commercial counterpart WordPress.com (owned by Automattic) have long been blurred and confusing. So much that commercial offerings from Automattic's suite of tools were integrated into the official WordPress mobile app.That's about to change. As Sarah Gooding of WP Tavern reports, features that rely on Automattic products are moving to the latest version of the free Jetpack app.This means that users will need the Jetpack app to access site statistics, comment notifications, and the Reader content discovery feature. https://youtu.be/i8t1KRbsvzQ In a blog post announcing the change, WordPress.com says that site data can be automatically migrated from the WordPress app to Jetpack, provided you have the latest version of both installed on your device. Meanwhile, the WordPress app will become more focused on the core functionality of the content management system.Links You Shouldn't MissMailchimp have disclosed a recent security breach - and an account belonging to Automattic appears to have been affected. WooCommerce has sent an email informing users of the situation, but says that “No payment data, passwords, or other sensitive security information is part of this breach.”The WordPress Theme Directory is in the early stages of a refresh. A post on the Make WordPress blog shared mockup images, with the design looking similar to the recently upgraded News and Showcase sections. Stated goals include improved usability, along with implementing the recently-introduced theme taxonomies.If you've ever wanted to contribute to WordPress core, here's your chance. WordPress 6.2 is tentatively scheduled to become available on March 28, 2023. The project is currently looking for volunteers to lead various aspects of the release and become a part of the “squad”.Artwork generated via artificial intelligence is generating lots of buzz - and a high-profile lawsuit. Getty Images is suing Stability AI, maker of the Stability Diffusion artwork generator, for copyright infringement. The outcome could alter the way these tools scrape content, not to mention a user's ability to safely publish AI images.From the Grab BagNow it's time to take a look at some other interesting topics shared by our contributors.MasterWP's Rob Howard and Allie Nimmons recapped the annual State of the Word event and looked at the biggest challenges facing WordPress.WordPress theme and plugin sales platform Freemius have posted a year in review that highlights interesting notes from 2022, as well as plans for 2023.WordPress developer Brian Coords wonders why creating an email newsletter within WordPress is still so hard.LearnDash product manager Jack Kitterhing opines that it's time to fix the WordPress user experience.Brin Wilson recently published a guide to placing ads on Blaze, the new advertising platform for WordPess.com and Tumblr.In an effort to support its authors and publications, online publishing platform Medium has created its own Mastodon instance.2023 will see six new privacy laws take effect in North America. MainWP has a rundown of each law and tips for how to prepare for them.Thanks to all of the members who shared these links today: Dennis DornonJustin FerrimanJohn LockeCourtney RobertsonBrin Wilson ★ Support this podcast ★

Wow! What a year

A mega-project deserves a mega-announcement! The new Multi-store Dashboard is by far our biggest milestone and most complex deployment in 2022. More than a year's worth of hard work — scrutinizing, listening to feedback, making changes — has resulted in a brand new multi-store interface that's powered by super-fast, granular, and customizable analytics. What's under […]

How much do you know about Elementor Templates? These new-generation static themes are easy to build and offer developers and digital creatives an opportunity to cash in on the no-code revolution. Get insider tips from four WordPress professionals on how to successfully sell Elementor Templates (and Template Kits) in 2023. When I joined Freemius in […]

Unlike previous release notes where we update our selling partners about new features, this release is dedicated to plugin & theme users and covers all recent changes to address feedback and concerns raised in the community. Many of these concerns are rooted in the fact that Freemius has always been seen as a dev-centric platform. […]

What's new with Freemius? A few days ago, we received an email from a partner raising concerns that we haven't published any release notes in some time. Fair enough! Truth is, we've been ‘heads down' working on tons of features, and — before we knew it — our release notes were stacking up high (thanks […]

After a period of massive growth that saw the majority of markets scramble online to survive, we're entering a time of deceleration. Growth is slowing, the COVID-19 Stock Market bubble has burst, and there's a cautious atmosphere in WordPress. Based on signals in the ecosystem and sentiment from Freemius' selling partners network, here's the general […]

Running a startup is a rollercoaster. And like any good rollercoaster, there'll be peaks, troughs, and curves that throw you for a loop along the way. During the last two weeks, we've been riding downhill, strategizing and executing the development and distribution of a security patch for our WordPress SDK. What was supposed to be […]

In the News WordPress 5.9 (RC3) is here. 5.9 is slated for next week and you still have time to help with testing. Go over to make.wordpress.org to see how you can still help with this important release. WooCommerce The WooCommerce development team announced that they have started working on an implementation of custom tables for orders. Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern covers the details of how this long-awaited improvement for the custom tables will be developed. The release is scheduled for Q3. You can check out her article for the details. Events The WordCamp Birmingham Organizing Team has unanimously decided to postpone WP Y'all until a future date in April or May when we can safely hold the event for our attendees. Nathan Ingram has a Twitter thread and he will share the updates as they become available. From Our Contributors and Producers Have you started using Blocks in your workflow? Nick Diego forked the core social block and created the Social Sharing Plugin. Justin Tadlock over at WPTavern covers how Nick created the social sharing block by forking the social block from WordPress core 5.9.  Speaking of blocks, Tadlock wrote an article covering Wicked Plugins Block Builder 1.0. (Hey, Vinny's a producer here at The WP Minute) If you would like to see how Justin created “resource block cards” using the plugin, click the link in the show notes. Do you interact with the WordPress database? The Wizard's Collection: SQL Recipes for WordPress is an ebook that is available right now. It is a great resource If you need to update your database skills. Would you like to recognize the people that contribute to WordPress? Aurooba Ahmed has made a repo on GitHub to list all WordPress people that can be sponsored on the platform. If you know someone, take a minute to add them to the list.  Andrew Palmer shared a recent interview with Marieke van de Rakt over on the Freemius channel. Marieke, the previous CEO of Yoast shares insights of the acquisition of Yoast to Newfold. Quick tip: It seems like it helps to have a broker and a banker when you need to negotiate. This interview is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. Not exactly WordPress -  but worth mentioning Happy 21st birthday to Drupal.  Wow! Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion.  Remember, less than a year ago Microsoft acquired Bethesda with a loot chest filled with games like: Elder Scrolls, Doom, Fallout, and more.  IMO this frames Microsoft as “Universe Builders.” I wouldn't be surprised if you saw them competing with Disney on all fronts within a decade. They do open source stuff too, link in the notes. Next up:  The Block Editor Dev Minute w/Aurooba Ahmed The Transcript Hi, this is Aurooba and this is your Block Editor Dev Minute! Here's a cool feature you should know about: WordPress 5.9 is landing soon and with it, so does block support for multiple stylesheets. If you haven't already adopted block-specific stylesheets, now is the time. Registering per-block stylesheets means that unnecessary styling is never loaded. This is great for performance and fantastic for maintainability. Being able to add multiple stylesheets per block means you can create more atomic styles. Let's say you have a custom block that includes a button, instead of creating new styles for the button in this block, you can simply pull in the stylesheet for the regular Button block for consistency and efficiency. I think this is going to be pretty handy. Read more about this and the other fantastic features coming to WordPress 5.9 in the Field Guide on make.wordpress.org. Thanks for listening! The Gutenberg Minute w/ Birgit Pauli-Haack Transcript Happy New Year! My name is Birgit Pauli-Haack. Here is your Gutenberg Minute. Next week, Tuesday, WordPress 5.9 will be released. Theme, plugin developers, and site builders are already testing their products against release candidate 3. 5.9 is the biggest release since the block editor's debut in WordPress 5.0. As it ties all the pieces, dare I say blocks together into a new and powerful site-building experience. Learn.WordPress.org has a new self-paced course “Simple Site design with Full Site Editing” meant for site builders and owners. You'll learn how to create a personalized site design without any coding. Shorter workshops are also available: “How to Style Your Site with Global Styles' or How to use the List view”. On the WordPress Social Learning space on Meetup.com, you find dozens of events covering Theme development, Color Styling, and a lot more. If you need to educate users, clients, or meetup members on the latest Gutenberg features, Anne McCarthy has created a list of talking points and resources to learn more for presenters and trainers. Keep up with Gutenberg updates, via the Gutenberg Changelog podcast at gutenbergtimes.com/podcast. Links: Release Candidate 3 WordPress 5.9 https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-9-rc3/ Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing https://learn.wordpress.org/course/simple-site-design-with-full-site-editing/ WordPress Social Learning on Meetup https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-social-learning/events/ So you want to talk about full site editing? 5.9 Edition https://nomad.blog/2022/01/15/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing-5-9-edition/ Thanks to all of the members who shared these links today:  Daniel SchutzsmithVinny MckeeAndrew PalmerJeff ChandlerAurooba AhmedBirgit Pauli-Haack Thank you, dear listener, for tuning in to your favorite 5-minutes of WordPress news every Wednesday. ★ Support this podcast ★

In the News State of the Word 2021 happened this week. If you would like to hear the complete audio or read through the transcript from the live event check out the link over on the WPMinute. There is even a mega-thread of our favorite clips over on Twitter. GoDaddy covered the event as well including their own timestamps for the video stream. I have three takeaways from the event that I think are important: WordPress still wants more volunteers and contributorsGutenberg is bigger than WordPress The acquisition train is fueled by the influx of the larger tech economy Speaking of acquisitions: You may want some insight on how to approach selling your company. Check out Freemius' Gamechangers — where videos of some of the largest acquisitions in the WordPress space have occurred. The first interview in the series (from December 8th) is with Syed Balki from Awesome Motive. WPMinute Contributor Kim Coleman, co-founder of Paid Memberships Pro received 27 likes on her Twitter question on the Freemius account when they announced it: Is this the total list or are there any women in your series? I asked Vova for a comment leading into the inclusion of this article in today's episode: We are not happy about it either and take full responsibility for this mistake. We are going to rectify it. We already have Marieke from Yoast to join and are waiting to hear from additional female founders. The growth of WordPress Is Elementor the hero we asked for? Joost de Valk published the sixth iteration of his CMS market share analysis on his blog and found that the W3Techs tracked Elementor. It appears that much of the new growth for WordPress as a CMS is tied to Elementor since they are dependent on each other. Elementor sites cannot exist without WordPress, so they are tied to each other. But I think the conclusion is fair that of all those new sites being built with WordPress, a very large portion of them, is being built with Elementor. Events WordCamp US 2022 will be held in San Diego this September. No dates have been announced but you can sign up to be an organizer now. From Our Contributors and Producers WP Minute ecommerce correspondent Dave Rodenbaugh published his latest ecommerce minute discussing the issues with the supply chain. If you are waiting for products this week and want to understand the crisis better, go check out that episode. Can you still make a living building WordPress sites? This Tweet from Jack Forge got some traction on Twitter and many people responded about how WordPress is great for enabling people to make a decent living. There are some fantastic stories in that thread. Eric Karkovack does a recap of 2021 on SpeckyBoy. He covers the foundational shifts that we have seen in WordPress.

We've reviewed hundreds of pricing pages to help developers perfect their content, layout, and design. Throughout this process, we've seen the common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers — both inside and outside the Freemius community — are unknowingly repeating, as well as the opportunities they're missing out on. We want the odds […]

Liquid Web continues to expand it's nexus of acquisitions with it's latest grab of GiveWP. From GiveWP's own blog post: The future of GiveWP remains a top priority.Every team member is critical to our success.Leadership of the team and product are staying the same. You can check out our own interview with the GiveWP's leadership team, Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell at thewpminute.com and friend of the show Joe Casabona featured a chat on the How I Built it podcast. Can't get enough audio/video? How about over 2+ hours on the future of WordPress?! The WP Cafe podcast sat down with Josepha Haden Chomphosy & Matt Mullenweg to highlight the project's future as of May 10th 2021. As you'd imagine most things point to Gutenberg, Full-site editing, but one particular discussion I thought was interesting was the term Universal Themes. Give this show a listen to learn more about that or attention a scheduled Universal Themes Hallway hangout on Friday May 14th at 14UTC WP Builds hosted a discussion as part of their Page Builder Summit event with 3 employees from Automattic titled “Preparing for the future of WordPress” This time a much more technical and tactical illustration of the project. Tune in to listen to Marjorie Asturias Director of Growth R&D, Anne McCarthy Developer Relations Wrangler, and Donna Cavalier a Technical Content Writer. With the future comes the…past? Tonya Mork and Andrew Ozz collaborated on a plugin that halts the block-based widget functionality for those of us needing to opt-out of that potentially critical component of a WordPress site. The plugin notes that support will carry through 2022. WordPress Tavern reports that Jetpack has made more features available without connecting to WordPress.com. But not to be outdone by it's own updates, learn why the .com connection is important over at Jetpack.com. It also serves as a great resource for the features you can use without the connection. From the grab bag! Freemius has taken their massive library of WordPress business content and compressed it all into a nice cheat sheet for you.And I launched version 2.0 of my plugin, Easy Support Videos, make supporting WordPress clients fun using video inside the WordPress admin. ★ Support this podcast ★

Based on your requests, we are excited to announce the launch of a WYSIWYG Email Styler, enabling you to manage the appearance of the transactional emails we send to your users and customers on your behalf. The Email Styler customizes the visual appearance of your emails to better align them with your brand. With it, […]

This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Resources mentioned in the episode: Iain's website Iain's Twitter account Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators) Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin) WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter) WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired) WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community) WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition) Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin subscriptions)

If you are selling WordPress plugins & themes (or any other digital products) globally, you already know that once every few months, the “universe” throws you unexpected regulatory/legal/privacy/tax laws that you must comply with by law. EU VAT, GDPR, SCA, CCPA are just a few of the recently added requirements. This time, it’s actually not […]

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd August 2020

Every 3 to 6 months I stumble across a trending social media thread that bashes plugin developers for overloading the WP Admin dashboard with notices. As a plugin developer myself and someone who communicates with plugin and theme developers every single day as part of my role at Freemius, it really touches a nerve to […]

As part of our ongoing efforts to help plugin and theme developers optimize the support experience for their customers, we’re excited to share a brand new contact form in the hosted User Dashboard, which can be embedded into your website if you’re selling with Freemius. This will allow your users and customers to contact support […]

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st June 2020

Last February, I was supposed to attend my first WordCamp. I was really thrilled about meeting fellow WordPress-ers from all over the world at the first conference to be held in Asia. I was excited about all the plans we had at Freemius for new video opportunities at the conference – new testimonials, new filming […]

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th May 2020

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy in these wild times

We’re excited to share our latest WordPress SDK and platform upgrades with the community! Of particular note is that we’ve taken significant steps in being more flexible and transparent about data collection, including changes to the Freemius “opt-in” mechanism. We also added the ability to easily transfer account ownership, improved the checkout functionality, and added […]

It only took half a decade to get my good friend Vova Feldman on to the show, and like most things in life, it was worth the wait. As the founder of Freemius, a platform that helps WordPress software developers monetize their product, Vova has a bird's-eye view of the changing economy in our space. We'll talk about how .org and business opportunity is shifting, how Freemius onboards customers to find success, and what challenges the Freemius team is facing. It's a lengthy episode, but one that I hope you enjoy over your holiday break. It's the last episode of the year and I can't thank you enough for listening! Please consider sharing the episode on your favorite social channel! ★ Support this podcast ★

It only took half a decade to get my good friend Vova Feldman on to the show, and like most things in life, it was worth the wait. As the founder of Freemius, a platform that helps WordPress software developers monetize their product, Vova has a bird’s-eye view of the changing economy in our space.…

It only took half a decade to get my good friend Vova Feldman on to the show, and like most things in life, it was worth the wait. As the founder of Freemius, a platform that helps WordPress software developers monetize their product, Vova has a bird’s-eye view of the changing economy in our space.…

1981 was the year when MTV exploded into the world. The introduction of music videos forever changed the way we consume and enjoy music. Around the same time, a British pop band called “The Buggles” released one of the most groundbreaking pop songs of that era called “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Other than being […]

Vova Feldman from Freemius talks about the challenges WordPress developers face when trying to build a business around their product. We also discuss how developers can optimize their holiday campaigns and differentiate themselves from their competitors.

Black Friday is almost here and we’re getting ready at Freemius! Is it the best day of the year? It definitely could be if you have your marketing strategy planned properly! We have experience working with our plugin and theme selling partners over the years and analyzing many BFCM promotions, which puts us in a […]

I’m glad to be with Igor Ligay from Stylemix themes today, a developer who can definitely be called “successful” when it comes to the world of selling WordPress themes and plugins. We’ll be quizzing him on his experience selling on ThemeForest, and his more recent venture selling Stylemix plugins from their website using Freemius. Let’s […]

Jose Vega is a young entrepreneur from El Salvador and the lead developer of several successful plugins. His featured plugins are WP Sheet Editor and WP Frontend Admin, which he’s both created in the last 2.5 years and started selling with Freemius. Jose, thank you for agreeing to do this interview. So, please tell us, […]

When it comes to selling WordPress plugins and themes, are you making as much money as you possibly can? Vova Feldman talks about how Freemius helps developers maximise this opportunity on this episode of the WP Elevation podcast. To read the full show notes for this episode, visit https://www.wpelevation.com/218

El día de hoy tenemos muchas actualizaciones: Genesis 2.9.0, WordPress Mobil App 11.9, y el gran susto para los usuarios de Freemius, este episodio es un carnaval jajajaja

El día de hoy tenemos muchas actualizaciones: Genesis 2.9.0, WordPress Mobil App 11.9, y el gran susto para los usuarios de Freemius, este episodio es un carnaval jajajaja

Josepha Haden is the Executive Director of the WordPress project at Automattic. She oversees and directs all contributor teams in their work to build and maintain WordPress. Josepha can be found at https://josepha.blog. In our news segment, we talk about recent vulnerabilities in the Freemius library affecting WordPress plugins, the CoinHive shutdown, and why potential changes in WordPress core development will benefit end users' security and more.

Vova Feldman started one of the most popular plugin marketplaces in the WordPress space. His story is one that came out of filling a need, but also a realization: while there are a lot of people selling plugins in the WordPress space, we can be doing better. He offers advice on building your business, and […] The post Vova Feldman and Freemius appeared first on How I Built It.

The episode is sponsored by Plesk and Freemius. In episode 103 I am joined by Markus Schwingenschlögl, CTO of ThemeFusion, the company behind the Avada WordPress theme. Markus had recently answered a Q&A for us over on WP Mayor, hosted by David Scott, Envato's PR and Communications manager. This episode is a follow-up to that Q&A, so I recommend reading the Q&A before starting to listen to our conversation here. Marcus is an integral part of the Avada theme's incredible growth on ThemeForest, the WordPress theme marketplace from Envato. They recently hit the $25 million mark in sales with an average rating of 4.77 out of 5 stars from over 21,000 reviews. Those numbers do not lie - the ThemeFusion team is doing a lot of things right. In our discussion we go over a number of the areas that ThemeFusion has focused on in order to achieve this feat. These included: The idea of focusing on the development of a single theme with the introduction of one-click install demos for various use-cases. Methods of gathering and using user feedback through comments, reviews, support and a community Facebook group. The tracking of feature requests through Github and the idea of building new features according to use-case requests, not just feature requests. Other ways of gathering ideas for new features and use-cases. The importance of design and attention to detail. Why it's vital for all your team, developers included, to maintain a connection with your user-base. The need for a solid company structure to take things in the right direction. The premise of releasing a mature product rather than being first to market, even if it means playing catch-up at first. The importance of the WordPress community at every stage of developing a product or service. I would like to thank Markus for sharing his thoughts and insights with us. Remember, if you haven't read the Q&A we did on WP Mayor, I recommend starting with that here. Links: Q&A on WP Mayor Get the Avada Theme on Themeforest ThemeFusion's website: theme-fusion.com ThemeFusion's Twitter: @Theme_Fusion Markus' Twitter: @mschwing ThemeFusion's Facebook Page Avada Facebook Community Group

On this episode we discuss with Vova Feldman founder of Freemius.com tactics, tips and tricks for selling WordPress plugins and themes. Notes: Freemius Freemius Blog

Selling digital products online, including WordPress plugins and themes, can be easy if you've got a small shop, but once your business starts to grow, it becomes harder to maintain. Spending time working on your self-hosted e-commerce setup rather than building and marketing your product starts to work against you. That is where Freemius comes in. It's an e-commerce solution that takes care of all the nitty-gritty parts of running your e-commerce business while providing built-in marketing tools, some of which are new and exciting for the WordPress e-commerce space, to grow your business. The cost of having bugs and other issues fixed for you, and having access to a vast toolset that allows you to grow your business with relatively minimal effort, is a percentage of your revenue. When running a small business, this percentage could be seen as worthwhile as you can focus on developing the product rather than handling VAT setups, payment gateway issues, and so on. When your business grows, however, the commission could be seen as quite a barrier. In this episode, Vova Feldman, the co-founder and CEO of Freemius, joins me to explain why it could be the right solution for WordPress businesses despite being the new kid on the block. We also discuss how Freemius works in comparison to other e-commerce solutions such as Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce. Links: Vova Feldman Twitter: @vovafeldman Freemius Twitter: @freemius Website: freemius.com WordPress Feature Comparison: freemius.com/wordpress/features-comparison/

WordPress has changed a lot since it was first released in 2003 and the companies building tools like Plugins and Themese have had to evolve along with it. Join this webinar and hear wicked-smart Vova Feldman of Freemius discuss the future of the plugin theme economy and what companies can do to better integrate their products with WordPress and grow their businesses in the process.

WordPress has changed a lot since it was first released in 2003 and the companies building tools like Plugins and Themese have had to evolve along with it. Join this webinar and hear wicked-smart Vova Feldman of Freemius discuss the future of the plugin theme economy and what companies can do to better integrate their products with WordPress and grow their businesses in the process.

"Are you thinking of starting a premium plugin & theme business, but don't know where to start for billing, licensing & digital rights management (DRM), analytics, and marketing tools?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Vova Feldman of the popular Plugin and Theme business platform Freemius. Vova shares his thoughts on the common business models plugin & theme businesses use, licensing strategies, options for billing & DRM, and how you can go about tracking & marketing plugin & theme sales.If you're thinking about starting a plugin or theme business or you already have and need some advice, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!"