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Archive for October, 2014

How To Ask For WordPress Plugin Reviews After a Week

One of the best models I think out there for asking for reviews is to produce an unobtrusive popup after a certain amount of days of using your software. I’ve seen it done before (the best example I find is the one used in the What The File plugin), and can lead to a lot of…

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When should Users not give reviews to WordPress plugins?

Read my last post? Please do so, as such it’ll give you an idea on how to get more reviews. But, with plugin reviews, whilst you welcome them, occasionally you get a few that you ask why they left them? In my experience as a developer, people are more likely to leave terrible reviews rather…

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How To Get More WordPress Plugin Reviews

One of the most frustrating things about WordPress and it’s open source nature is that it can set certain expectations. Anybody who has developed a premium plugin, theme or run a service will know the struggle that because WordPress is free, a section of users expect your time and your expertise for no reward. It’s…

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The Acceptable Face of Self Promotion

So, I’ve seen a change in the internet in the last few weeks, and I kind of like it. It was something I noticed originally at WordCamp Europe, where one of the talks was about a project that they were working on – FrontKit (incidentally, you should totally sign up for updates at that link, as it…

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60 Tweetable Tips from WordCamp Europe 2014

WordCamp Europe 2014 took place last weekend in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was a city I’ve been to before and the first time wasn’t that great, however this visit was a lot of fun, with a lot of learning and hanging with some great talent in the WordPress Community. I travelled alone, though never ate, drank…

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