Latest posts by andy (see all)
- Go Burrito Lancaster Reviews - March 12, 2015
- BOL Newsletter #57 – Contest , Sales dissapointment and New plugin coded - July 7, 2014
- BOL Newsletter #56 – launch finished and new direction in 4k - June 27, 2014
Doing so means you get exposure to thousands and thousands of other CommentLuv users and your posts get sent out to the massive subscriber list.
Google loves this site and indexes it multiple times per day and posts always get lots of comments so you can be sure of some excellent exposure.
See the Write For Us page for more details
btw.. you can get this author box here
A bag full of plugins
I’ve written numerous plugins for clients, my own sites and some just for fun in my time. I’ve even released a couple, maybe you’ve heard of CommentLuv or Twitterlink comments? 
I would love to release the other ones I have in my bag of plugins but, the biggest problem I have with releasing a plugin to the wild is the sheer amount of time it takes to support the users of the plugin! Not only that, there’s the constant updates that are required to keep it up to date and bug free and modifications to WordPress always add a bit of fun into the mix.
Free(mium) Luv?
A discussion with someone in the comments of this site reminded me of a thought thread I was having with myself the past few months and that’s what to do with CommentLuv and other plugins.
I would dearly love to work on them full time instead of that pesky thing called work (and the other pesky thing like running a business!) but I really cannot justify the time it would take to implement the changes I have planned for commentluv unless I can show my family that it’s worth it.
I think it’s time I tried an experiment, I’ve been hankering to make a premium version of Commentluv for some time. One with dofollow, custom css, keywordluv, custom messages,
To justify that, I’d really want to freemiumize it which is basically providing the regular one for free but charging a nominal fee for the super duper one, a charge that gets the customer free updates for life and access to premium support.
Dipping my toes
To even consider going to all that trouble without actually knowing if it’s going to work or even worth preparing the database, download pages and the other infrastructure required, I figured I could test the water first with some my other creations. Plugins that I know people want and may just consider paying say, 15$ for (?).
Things like the guest poster notify plugin, a nifty dashboard tweeting widget or even a configurable sidebar login widget. How about a premium version of twitterlink comments that tweets to your twitter account the @username of the person whose comment just got replied to? If they were at a reasonable price and you knew that you’d get guaranteed updates and priority support then would you consider paying for a plugin?
Feedback welcome!
Please let me know in the comments what you think of this idea, I really need to find a way besides advertising that can keep comluv.com afloat and paying for itself and at least a little bit to buy my missus a dinner now and then. It’d be such a shame for it to all go in the pooper chute because it got to expensive to be a hobby any more.
It goes without saying that all the things that are sold will be sold using the credits system already in place here at comluv.com which means they’ll all be compatible with the affiliate system too. If you’re not interested in buying a plugin, maybe your readers would be and then you’d get a 20% kickback..
