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Where to find new PLR Wordpress Plugins

by lookielookies
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I'm looking for the best sites where I can get brand new PLR Wordpress plugins - preferrably more than 1 plugin/month.

Any tips?
#find #membership #plr #plugins #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    All WP plugins are GNU public license.
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    • Profile picture of the author Haris Tahic
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      All WP plugins are GNU public license.
      Does that mean that you can take someone's plugin and put your name on it? I don't think so. It's still not PLR.
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      • Profile picture of the author onSubie
        Originally Posted by Haris Tahic View Post

        Does that mean that you can take someone's plugin and put your name on it? I don't think so. It's still not PLR.
        Have you read the terms of the Wordpress GNU/GPL?

        "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
        https://wordpress.org/about/gpl/

        This license must be included with any theme or plugin built on Wordpress.

        The idea is to allow new developers to extend the work of others to add improvements and features to themes and plugins in an open environment. But you can also just copy without functional changes.

        Wordpress threatened to take Thesis theme to court about 5 years ago because they were not selling with a public license. They settled before that happened and Thesis is now sold with a GNU/GPL Public License. Woo themes also comply and are issued with a GNU/GPL Public License.

        If you want to make proprietary web tools you can develop on platforms other than Wordpress.

        If you want to protect your WP Theme/Plugin you should use a licensing method that locks it up or use obfuscated code.

        Technically that is in violation of the license you agree to when you use the WP platform to build a theme or plugin, but it will stop people from copying it.

        The problem is you then need to support your users almost indefinitely. The Internet is littered with dead WP themes/plugins that do not work because support went away and the license verification servers are no longer online.

        GNU/GPL is a common and well established method of openly sharing code and development. As far as I know, no WP theme or plugin author has ever tested the Wordpress licensing terms in court.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joan Altz
    He's talking about new plr plugins, not grabbing plugins from WordPress.org and branding them as his own.

    You can find some good ones at IDPLR.com
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    • Profile picture of the author onSubie
      Originally Posted by Joan Altz View Post

      He's talking about new plr plugins, not grabbing plugins from WordPress.org and branding them as his own.

      You can find some good ones at IDPLR.com
      It applies to any theme or plugin, not just those from wordpress.org.

      If you create a cool theme/plugin and sell it as a WSO without including a GNU/GPL license then you are in violation of the terms of the license given to you by Wordpress.org when you designed your theme on their platform.

      PLR member sites like resell-rights-weekly.com and plrassassin.com are also good sources of PLR WP themes.

      But there is no real difference between a PLR Theme/plugin or any other WP theme/plugin. Except I find many of those designed specifically to be sold as PLR are pretty lame.

      You can make pretty good products by extending WP themes. For example, get a good Woo theme theme then extend it so it has AdSense ad displays or Amazon review template pages built in to suit the niche site design you are promoting.

      A theme like Thesis, although GNU/GPL is very complex and would be difficult to support if you were reselling it or extending it. Earlier versions of Thesis no longer work under newer versions of Wordpress. Good luck fixing that if you are not a developer familiar with the Thesis code.

      It would also be difficult to extend or resell a theme/plugin that is the client side of a client/server set up. Without controlling the server, your resold client theme/plugin isn't going to work.

      The thing is, there is a difference between "legal" and "ethical". While it may be legal to simply resell others' theme/plugins you need to decide if that falls within your ethical comfort zone.
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