WordPress is the best blogging platform and there is no doubt about that, other than that it is also becoming the first choice CMS (content management system) for corporates too. One of the major reason for the same is that WordPress is pretty simple and even though it has got less inbuilt features, there are thousands of plugins that are available for free and extend the it to match the existing CMS. It’s simplicity attracts thousands of developers and is one of the fastest growing CMS at the moment.
Because of this simplicity offered by WordPress, there are many developers who create high quality plugins, however many plugin authors develop the plugin whose code quality is not up to the mark and thus causes issue. We at Blog Design Studio have faced many issues while integrating various plugins in our themes and we always felt the need of a repository that has listed only high quality plugins. I’m sure that the team and Incsub must have faced the same problem and thus in order to address this issue, they’ve launched an app store called WP Plugins.
WordPress plugin developers can upload their plugins on this WordPress powered site and allows them to sell them to users. Plugin authors get the option of selling the plugins for one time fee or as subscription based offer that gives users the access for support and future upgrades.
My opinion about WP Plugins
There has been a wonderful conversation going on at the TechCrunch’s post about this App Store, where there are mixed reactions for this particular service. There are some hard core fans (open-source fans) who didn’t like the idea of this App Store, however if I were to give my opinion, I would say this idea is fantastic as this particular option allows plugin developers to develop high quality plugins without worrying about marketing, selling options. Other than that, users will also be able to access high quality plugins at one single place. It definitely is a win-win situation for everyone, however, the idea will only flourish or will be helpful for users only if there will be enough plugin developers who’d sign up for this initiative and not launch their own app stores in future.
Although, I do agree that they should mention that they aren’t affiliated with WordPress! There are some people who just don’t get it by looking at the site and seeing no logo of Automattic.
Well i think its a great move!
This will encourage people to develop some really good plugins and most importantly this will be beneficial for both plugin developer and a webmaster :)