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Takayuki MiyoshiThe creator of
Contact Form 7 plugin
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Why We Should Choose
Free Plugins
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There are two types of WordPress plugins: • Free plugins, and • Paid (so-called "premium") plugins
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We should choose free plugins for two reasons:
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1. Free plugins are of higher quality, and
2. Good for our community.
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Why free plugins are of higher quality?
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Paid plugins have paywalls. Only paying customers can access the source code.
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=> Paid plugin authors can't get enough feedback.
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Paywalls block important feedback including: • Bug reports, • Security incident reports, and
• Comments from other developers.
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Free plugin developers can learn from feedback. Paid plugin developers can't.
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=> Free plugins are of higher quality than paid plugins.
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Why free plugins are good for our community?
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Developers learn from other developers' code. The more good code is available, the more good developers there are.
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Again, paid plugins have paywalls. => Can't access their code.
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Free plugins help good developers grow. Paid plugins don't.
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=> Free plugins are good for our community.
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If good plugin developers don't grow, The WordPress community will be weakened over time.
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To support free plugins, you can: • Use them, • Donate to their creators, or
• Develop free plugins yourself!
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Let's keep our community open, and growing.