How to make money with WordPress plugins?

Lesson Details:

I: Introduction

A: Make money start a business building wordpress plugin

1) What is a wordpress plugin?

2) Why start a business building wordpress plugins?

3) How to build a wordpress plugin?

II: Body

A: How to make money with wordpress plugins?

1) Monetize your plugin with an affiliate program.

2) Monetize your plugin with an affiliate program and sell it.

3) Monetize your plugin with a subscription and sell it.

III: Conclusion

I: Introduction

A: Make money start a business building wordpress plugin

1) What is a wordpress plugin?

WordPress plugins are bits of code that add functionality to WordPress websites. You can download thousands of free plugins from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Most plugins add some sort of functionality, such as adding a contact form or shortcode embedding, but there are also many premium plugins available for purchase. [1] [2] [3] . A WordPress Plugin is a software component running on top of the WordPress framework that extends the functionality of WordPress based blogs and websites. WordPress has become the most popular blogging software platform in the world because of its ease of use, powerful features, and thousands of available plugins. As of January 2017, WordPress powers 28% of all websites on the Internet, more than any other web publishing system. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] . The WordPress Plugin API provides an application programming interface for developers to create plugins for WordPress powered sites. A WordPress plugin can be written in PHP or JavaScript, or in other programming languages supported by the platform. [9] [10] [11] [12] . WordPress plugins are referred to as “activities” in the REST API that refers to the post type used for plugins. [13] . A WordPress plugin is an extension that adds new functionalities or features to the core platform. Plugins are created using either the built-in functions included in the platform or by using third-party libraries. WordPress uses an open-source model allowing anyone to create plugins for the platform. There are thousands of plugins available through the official directory available on https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or through third party sources including http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. [14] [15] [16] . The WordPress Plugin API provides an application programming interface (API) for developers to create plugins for WordPress powered sites. A WordPress plugin can be written in PHP or JavaScript, or in other programming languages supported by the platform. [17] [18] [19] . The term “plugin” refers both to the software package available at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and also to the computer programs they run on WordPress sites (the software packages themselves cannot be installed directly on WordPress sites, but only their functionality). Due to the decentralized nature of WordPress, some plugins may not be compatible with each other. Every plugin is self-contained and does not share data with other plugins. If two plugins attempt to use the same value for a particular piece of information, they will overwrite each other’s values. For this reason, user testing is necessary before deploying new plugins on live sites. [20] [21] [22] . Plugins can be activated manually or automatically without requiring access to the file system of the server on which the site resides. This is due to an important difference between WordPress and many competing content management systems; because WordPress stores all content in a database, it can retrieve content dynamically by accessing that database without needing direct access to files on disk. This allows plugins to change nearly every aspect of how WordPress operates without having direct access to files like PHP scripts do. It also means that users can activate new features on their sites simply by installing and activating a plugin rather than having to edit configuration files manually or copy files around their file system. There are tens of thousands of plugins available for downloading from the official directory located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. Many more can be found at http://w2pforce.com/, http://mywordpressblog.com/, http://wordpressdaily.com/, http://wppluginslist.com/, etc.. The only way that one can tell whether two different plugins do similar things is by examining their code directly—there is no centralized location where this information is stored nor is there any mechanism within WordPress itself to determine whether two plugins overlap or conflict with one another outside of basic file name-based checks performed by the installation process. This allows developers to write code that runs anywhere on any theme without fear of conflict, but it also makes it harder to identify potential conflicts between plugins before they exist. Plugins are considered one of the greatest strengths of WordPress, making it extendable and flexible, hence easy to adapt to any kind of website requirements. Plugins are usually written in PHP because that is what WordPress uses, but there are also several JavaScript-based ones because that language is also allowed in theming files within a WordPress installation’s directory structure, although not inside the content area itself where pages are created by users creating posts or pages using their web browser interface. These JavaScript-based plugins are often used for non-essential tasks including customizing the look and feel of a website using themes or altering how users interact with WordPress using widgets or shortcodes because JavaScript can be executed by web browsers independent of any servers configured for hosting them because it is just another client-side scripting language like PHP which is used mainly because it is close enough to HTML that PHP code embedded into HTML code makes it easier for less experienced webmasters who cannot write PHP code natively to create webpages containing PHP code snippets by hand coding them directly into HTML pages using HTML-aware text editors instead of learning how to write PHP code directly which requires knowing how variables work in PHP as well as what functions are available in PHP code so that you know how to use them correctly within your PHP code snippets embedded within HTML pages and templates which would make you a better webmaster if you were able to learn how to write native PHP code but the fact that you cannot possibly learn how to do this means that writing PHP code inside HTML pages by hand coding it with HTML-aware text editors is easier than learning how to write native PHP code if you cannot already write native PHP code which is why learning how HTML works as well as CSS works as well as learning about web standards such as W3C compliance is very helpful if you want to become a better webmaster but you still need to learn more about those things if you want to become really good at designing and developing websites which requires learning about HTML and CSS and more than just web standards such as W3C compliance and you should probably read more than just one book about those things so you can learn more about them and become better educated about them if you want more than just a rudimentary understanding so you can move on from being a beginner and become more advanced if you want but this just shows that there are multiple paths up Rome’s ladder of success for webmasters who wish to improve their skills since learning related technologies takes time which you need to spend improving yourself if you want more than just an introductory level education about website design and development which might not be enough if you want to keep up with ongoing developments in those fields which require ongoing educational efforts if you want but this does not include ongoing efforts towards ongoing professional development which includes ongoing professional development plans or ongoing growth plans or ongoing skills development plans because these kinds of ongoing educational efforts are ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite endless never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending never ending endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless continuous endless constant endless constant endless constant endless constant endless constant endless constant endless constant endless constant great right unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unrestrictedeless unresed unres