So You Want to Launch a Plugin/Theme?

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December 07, 2013
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So You Want to Launch a Plugin/Theme?

An updated version of my WordCamp Buffalo 2013 talk.

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Chris Van Patten

December 07, 2013
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Transcript

  1. Hi!

  2. chrisvanpatten.com

  3. @ChrisVanPatten

  4. vanpattenmedia.com

  5. github.com/vanpattenmedia/

  6. cvp.me/wordsesh2013

  7. SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A PLUGIN

  8. SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A THEME

  9. Awesome!

  10. So... I just start coding, right?

  11. So... I just start coding, right? WRONG

  12. Step back. Breathe. We’ll get through this together.

  13. (1) Make sure you’re not doing work that someone else

    already did.

  14. (1) Make sure you’re not doing work that someone else

    already did.

  15. 2,000+ themes on .org

  16. 5,000 themes on theme marketplaces

  17. 28,000+ plugins on .org

  18. (2) Have a business model (or not).

  19. (2) Have a business model (or not).

  20. Free vs. Paid

  21. Freemium vs. Premium

  22. Distribution

  23. (3) Choose a license. Carefully.

  24. (3) Choose a license. Carefully.

  25. (3) Choose a license. Carefully.

  26. I am not a lawyer.

  27. Code must be GPLv2 compatible

  28. MIT. Apache 2.0. Public Domain. ! ✓

  29. MIT. Apache 2.0. Public Domain. ! ✓

  30. Creative Commons. ! ✗

  31. Creative Commons. ! ✗

  32. What about non-code assets?

  33. It’s complicated.

  34. Other theme directories? It depends.

  35. WordPress.org? Yes.

  36. If you can, you should.

  37. Good for the community

  38. Good for the soul

  39. People are good.

  40. (4) Understand best practices.

  41. (4) Understand best practices.

  42. Theme Review

  43. Theme Unit Testing

  44. Theme-Check

  45. Plugin Review

  46. (5) Document

  47. (5) Build it.

  48. (6) Submit it.

  49. (6) Submit it.

  50. Readme.txt

  51. Plugin vs. theme readmes

  52. Plugin Banners

  53. Screenshots

  54. FAQs

  55. SVN

  56. (7) Support it.

  57. (7) Support it.

  58. Thank you!

  59. cvp.me/wordsesh2013