Posts by proplugins
How to improve the Easy Digital Downloads renewal and upgrade process
The manual upgrade or renewal process for customers of an Easy Digital Downloads software licensing download is pretty difficult by default. While automatic renewals help the process significantly, some customers will cancel their subscriptions and others (like those in Germany paying with PayPal) will never have a subscription at all. Problems with the current process…
Read MoreWays to handle pro and free versions of your WordPress plugin
If you create a “pro” or premium version of your free WordPress plugin, you might run into annoying support issues like: Users don’t keep their free and pro versions up to date at the same time Pro/premium purchasers get confused needing to install a free version too (they might not have known there was a…
Read MoreHow to use POEdit (free version) to create the .po/.mo translation files for your WordPress plugin
The free version of POEdit doesn’t have the “Translate WordPress theme or plugin” functionality, but you can still generate the .po/.mo files used to translate your plugin with these instructions: Download POEdit Run POEdit, then go to File > New… Select the language of your translation strings in the plugin Go to File > Save and…
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