WordPress repository hosts only free plugins. You can sell a pro plugin in your website. A lot of developers have a free and pro version. They offer the free through WP repo and the pro through their website 🙂
Regards
George
What the guideline means is that you can continue to have the free version on ww.wp.xz.cn. But the premium features cannot be contained in that free version – even behind an unlock code or license.
One option for the premium features is to use the free plugin on ww.wp.xz.cn as the “core” feature set and sell an add-on plugin from your site with additional functionality. Plugins like WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads do this.
Or you can rebundle the free plugin with the premium features as one big plugin and distribute that from your site.
But the bottom line is that the premium features cannot be hosted on ww.wp.xz.cn.
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Guido
(@guido07111975)
Hi guys,
Thanks for your response. I now fully understand.
Do 1 of you have experience with using a free vs premium plugin?
Is for example the plugin update process of a premium version completely outside ww.wp.xz.cn repository? In other words, when a user has a premium version, it’s not attached to the ww.wp.xz.cn repository anymore?
Guido
Is for example the plugin update process of a premium version completely outside ww.wp.xz.cn repository? In other words, when a user has a premium version, it’s not attached to the ww.wp.xz.cn repository anymore?
Yes and yes.
If the plugin isn’t hosted on .org, it’s not updated from .org.
In general, I recommend you make an ‘add on’ plugin for the premium features. That way you don’t have to worry about the core plugin updates and only your add-ons. https://easydigitaldownloads.com/ does that and might be what you’re looking for. Unless you go the code canyon route.
the PRO plugin will have NOTHING to do with the ww.wp.xz.cn repository.
All the paid plugins/themes I have for clients and myself still get updated. I have a theme that I bought on (insert place here) and I get an e-mail whenever the theme author updates the theme.
The (insert place here) place has a download page with my items, below each item there is a check box that if I check, I get an e-mail whenever there is an update. That e-mails tells me there is an update and a link to download the updated theme.
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Guido
(@guido07111975)
Thanks again!
@miroslav: if I’m not mistaken Theme Forest offers an api key feature for updating theme from your WP dashboard. Nice feature.
@mika: thanks for the link. Did not know this plugin.
In general, I recommend you make an ‘add on’ plugin for the premium features. That way you don’t have to worry about the core plugin updates and only your add-ons.
Why not worry about core plugin updates? Or is it possible to integrate an add-on with plugin hosted on ww.wp.xz.cn?
Guido
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Or is it possible to integrate an add-on with plugin hosted on ww.wp.xz.cn?
It’s not, the add-on plugin would not be hosted on ww.wp.xz.cn so the updates would not come from here. Updates for your add-on plugin would need to be handled by your own servers and update mechanism.
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Guido
(@guido07111975)
In general, I recommend you make an ‘add on’ plugin for the premium features.
I’m a slow learner, but I now understand what you mean…
Leave the plugin on ww.wp.xz.cn and build an extension that hooks into the core plugin, containing the extra features .. Got it!
Guido
