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Introducing the Simple:Press Store

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

storeJust over 3 years ago – in March 2012 shortly after the launch of Simple:Press version 5.0 – we announced in a blog post (Simple:Press Reloaded) that we were switching to a membership based support model in the hope that in this way we could raise the necessary funds to continue to develop and keep alive the Simple:Press project. We had no idea at that time if the move would result in success or if we would be pulling the plug even earlier but as it happened we have kept afloat and while it is never going to make us rich it has stemmed the flow of cash from our own pockets.

We were, on the whole, pleasantly surprised by the response. There were a small handful of people who grumbled and one or two who wrote obscene and abusive emails but the vast majority of our users appeared to understand the tough decision we had to make. And we have been grateful for their continued support.

But it doesn’t matter what business model you put in place – it is never going to satisfy everyone and over the last 3 years we have noted all of the requests and listened to any criticism and this has all led to a major re-appraisal and re-design. And the number one request has always been the ability to purchase individual Simple:Press plugins without the necessity to purchase membership.

Well now you can.

We have also re-designed our membership plans and now offer more options from a single month to a whole year – most with a variety of free add-ons and all with some great discounts.

As with 3 years ago – we don’t know if this will prove a popular success but we do hope it will encourage new users to take a look at Simple:Press as well as help existing members to keep up to date with new plugins when their membership expires.

You will find links to our new membership plans and to our new store on the menu at the top of the page and remember – Simple:Press itself remains completely free to download and use.

If you need a little more information on what Simple:Press membership means then please do take a look at our membership FAQ page which will hopefully tell you what you want to know.

And for our current members…

Nothing changes. What you signed up for still stands and your membership and our commitments to that will be honoured. But now you have the best of both worlds – if we just happen to release that plugin you have been waiting for just after your membership expires… you will be able to get hold of it easily and far more cheaply.

Meanwhile – please take a look around… The buttons below can take you where you might want to go.

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GI Giovanna
Giovanna
Member

oh wow, well done! I like this new membership plan! And I was lucky: it looks I just prolonged my membership on time 😀

ps: btw the link above to the membership FAQ is not working…

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

whoops… will fix it…

glad you like it… we shall see how it gets along…

SJ Sjoerd
Sjoerd
Member

Well have to think this plan over. I noticed as newbie I hardly knew how useful some plugins & Themes would be so just tried them out and for me as Gold Member this was included so did not think about the price and just played around a bit. Maybe an additional option that includes ‘everything’ is an option as well. YES, … Platina Members!  

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

I do hope you realise that as an existing member the commitments made when you signed up still stand and will be honoured.
But we will certainly consider a ‘platinum’ plan 🙂

AT Alex T
Alex T
Member

Sjoerd said
Well have to think this plan over. I noticed as newbie I hardly knew how useful some plugins & Themes would be so just tried them out and for me as Gold Member this was included so did not think about the price and just played around a bit. Maybe an additional option that includes ‘everything’ is an option as well. YES, … Platina Members!  

I have to agree.  Now you have to pay for plugins you don’t even know you might use, as well as for support.  You can’t even read the codex and try and fix things yourself, which i’ve broken more things when I try and do it myself, so I eventually ended up paying for support.  

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

well, as we indicated, this change was due to a lot of requests from users who only wanted plugins and themes with no membership…  really tough pleasing all! 😉

we had kicked around a platinum level when setting this up, but were not sure of the demand for it, so decided to wait on feedback… seems two like the idea of an all inclusive level so we will discuss it some more…

thanks for the feedback..

SJ Sjoerd
Sjoerd
Member

Yellow Swordfish said
I do hope you realise that as an existing member the commitments made when you signed up still stand and will be honoured.
But we will certainly consider a ‘platinum’ plan 🙂

Yes I do understand this is true for the coming year,  However the whole idea of learning by playing around is gone in this new setup. 

GI Giovanna
Giovanna
Member

Hey what is that Vip badge ? I want one! 😀 😀 😀 Silvery Blue please 😀

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

lol… maybe you can earn one… 🙂 kvr helps out a lot here on the forums…

SJ Sjoerd
Sjoerd
Member

Mr Papa said
lol… maybe you can earn one… 🙂 kvr helps out a lot here on the forums…

Hm and have you seen the translation work I did for you (and me of course)!

GI Giovanna
Giovanna
Member

I translated the whole Reboot in Italian and some plugins!!! I did my bit 😀

Mr Papa tell me one thing: if I see a question of which I know the answer can I write it? It happened but I thought I better not do that. If I can then I will… maybe not for the next few weeks as I am in Italy on holiday with a little connection, but when back I can do that, no problem 😉 I’m gonna get that Vip badge!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Of course you can – please do in fact! There are times when we may have a little difficulty covering things 24/7 and also sometimes an issue can be raised that you or another user may have experience of and we don’t. Any help is appreciated.

The VIP badge – which was restricted under the old membership plans – is just something we have awarded to a very small handful of people that sometimes offer their help freely and assist other users. And who knows – when their current membership expires…. no hard plans yet but it is very early days!

Translations are always a difficult one to assess. To be brutally honest the majority of people who make translations do the little bit they specifically want and then we never hear from them again. Some will also translate locally and not share. I would like to reward those that stick around – translate new items on updates and generally contribute over the longer term but it is almost impossible to identify these people. The current glotpress software is really rather awful. The WP team are continually talking about improving it so hopefully when that happens we may get some stats that we can look at which might help.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

I must say i really appreciate all the great support from this team.

I’m not a coder but just imagine the man hours spent in developing this forum plugin. Just keeping up with all the changes WordPress makes must be a nightmare. 

The net is full of complainers and folks that expect everything for free. A great plugin like this deserves the financial support of those that use it. wink

Regards, Ed