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What is the market like for paid WordPress plugins? I recently developed my first WordPress plugin and was under the impression that the price point for just about anything is 0 from all the expectations built around the ecosystem. I think it's great that you're charging though.

Since this is not open source, is this listed in the WordPress.org directory?

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Indeed, there is a market. It's not huge, but it has some potential. Look at this page (http://codecanyon.net/category/plugins/wordpress?sort_by=sal...) and you'll find out that the top selling plug-in made over $45K in sales in less than one year.

Certainly not all plug-ins sells that much, but having been in CodeCanyon and ThemeForest for a while, I learned that people pay for "Premium". Premium is when you don't find something like it in the Open Source world.

It has to be open source (at least the PHP code). Not that I agree with it, but they (WP guys) consider plugins and themes derivated from WordPress.

As far as the market, it is hughe, but not very friendly to paid stuff...

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