So, you’re all signed up at WP Plugins.

Here’s some help for adding your first plugin… and how you can make it stand out and generally attractive to buyers.

It’s actually pretty simple, just a few steps.

Look at a great plugin listing, like the WP Popover plugin or the All in One SEO pack, and copy/imitate/get ideas from their style:

These plugins sell well partly because they are well written, use images and bullet points, and tell the user *why* they should use the plugin and *what it will do for them* … rather than just what the plugin is

Images work well

Make sure that your screenshot image (the one on the top left of those you have uploaded) is attractive as this will appear in listings.

A colorful picture illustrating what the plugin does (like a Google logo/page for SEO) rather than a WP options page or lots of text will sell more plugins!

Pricing, pricing, pricing… in our experience (and we have a *lot* of experience) the most you should be charging for an individual plugin is $39.

It’s not like the Apple app store so $0.95 is a bit daft, but it’s also not a place where you will sell many $50+, let alone $100+ plugins unless they are absolutely amazing!

Selling 4 x $19 plugins a day rather than 1 x $125 plugin per week is far, far better and allows you to grow your userbase / promotion too!

Make sure you provide lots of useful installation information, people look for that before they buy to be sure they are getting a quality product

If you have additional notes, add them, keep change-logs updated and upload stacks of screenshots… it all works!

Let us know if you have any other tips or questions!

We’re three months old and things are progressing pretty well, this months payouts to plugin authors total $8,910.94!!!

Piles of money like this are being handed to plugin authors!

Of course I can’t give you any specific statistics, but there are 3 plugin authors in there each with 4 figure monthly payments… which isn’t a bad return.

And, almost all of these have been one time downloads… we haven’t even got the subscription model right yet

Which, we are going to be working on this month… so hopefully things will start growing even more.

First up, thanks for your interest and use of WP Plugins during our first month.

It’s been great fun so far, and massively encouraging to see so many of you add and download such fantastic plugins.

Whaddya reckon to our fancy new logo?

I mean, we’re simply thrilled to be able to house plugins like All in One SEO (pro), Google XML Sitemaps (pro) and Subscribe2 HTML.

That we can offer authors of such great plugins the opportunity to sustain their work (without resorting to client contracts alone) is something that fills me with lots of joy!

But, we’re no way near done yet, and today you’ll note a few improvements:

1. New Logo (check it out up top) with more ‘Plug’ and less ‘Dub’

2. This here blog (that you are reading), this here Twitter account and an email list too – to keep you up to date with new plugins / special offers etc.

3. A commitment to improving ourselves dramatically over the next 6-12 months!

Here’s what I’d really like to see… by our first anniversary I’d like to have at least one plugin author making their living from WP Plugins.

That’d make me happy

But how are we going to get there? With your help of course, so, we’re asking for feedback.

We’re going to be sending out an email to all peopel who have bought and added plugins to the site to as you how you’d like to see WP Plugins improved.

And then, by golly, we’re going to do it!

But, just in case you’re not on that email list you can find the feedback form here, or just leave a comment!

Because every WP site needs a blog!