Post Status Excerpt — Small Wins With Small Plugins

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Collins Agbonghama, the Founder of ProfilePress and the author of a few other WordPress plugins. Collins shares what he called a “small” win in Post Status Slack early in January 2022: he acquired a plugin (now LoginWP) for “5 figures” and was able to break even on a revamped, commercial “Pro” version after only four months. David and Collins talk about this accomplishment and consider how similar opportunities may exist for other WordPress entrepreneurs.

Why This Is Important: Often you hear about large product acquisitions between relatively large companies in the WordPress space, but not so much the smaller ones — even though they can be just as impactful on people's livelihoods, especially for independent developers and freelancers.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• People of WordPress: Collins Agbonghama
• WordPress Saved my Life
• Interview with Collins Agbonghama of ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar)
• Collins Agbonghama
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

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