Slides I made for WordCamp Tokyo 2015 https://tokyo.wordcamp.org/2015/session/6-3/

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/by-jack/

2. Takayuki
Miyoshi
The creator of
Contact Form 7 plugin

3. Why
We Should Choose
Free Plugins

4. There are two types of
WordPress plugins:
• Free plugins, and
• Paid (so-called
"premium") plugins

5. We should choose
free plugins for two
reasons:

6. 1. Free plugins are
of higher quality,
and
2. Good for our
community.

7. Why free
plugins are
of higher
quality?

8. Paid plugins have paywalls.
Only paying customers
can access the source
code.

9. => Paid plugin authors
can't get enough
feedback.

10. Paywalls block important
feedback including:
• Bug reports,
• Security incident
reports, and
• Comments from other
developers.

11. Free plugin
developers can learn
from feedback.
Paid plugin developers
can't.

12. => Free plugins
are of higher
quality than
paid plugins.

13. Why free
plugins are
good for our
community?

14. Developers learn from
other developers' code.
The more good code is
available, the more good
developers there are.

15. Again, paid plugins have
paywalls.
=> Can't access their code.

16. Free plugins help good
developers grow.
Paid plugins don't.

17. => Free plugins
are good for
our community.

18. If good plugin
developers don't grow,
The WordPress
community will be
weakened over time.

19. To support free plugins,
you can:
• Use them,
• Donate to their
creators, or
• Develop free
plugins yourself!

20. Let's keep our
community open,
and growing.