WPMU DEV supports all sorts of WordPress, WPMU and BuddyPress sites – many of which have to make a profit.
In order to help you do this, we’ve developed advertising, pay to blog, and premium blogging service plugins – all of which we use to make a healthy profit on Edublogs and offer similar upgrade functionalities to sites like WordPress.com.
Our core ‘premium blogging’ plugin (as used on Edublogs) is the ‘Supporter’ plugin, but we have also developed a range of other money-making plugins which you can see listed below.
This is our premium upgrades functionality and what we use on Edublogs.org and Blogs.mu – it allows your users to subscribe to receive a range of benefits ranging from extra storage, to access to plugins and the ability, use their own domains and to turn off advertising on their site… it rocks out and we’re improving it all the time. Find out more…
Scroll down for our other money focused plugins, that allow you to build a sustainable (or highly profitable!) WordPress, WPMU or BuddyPress site:
MarketPress
The easiest to use, best designed and most powerful ecommerce / shopping cart plugin available for WordPress today - guaranteed.
Membership
The most powerful, easy to use and flexible membership plugin for WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress sites available. Offer downloads, posts, pages, forums and more to paid members.
In Post Ads
This plugin allows you to place advertisements (custom post types) throughout each post after x number of paragraphs, see it action on WPMU.org, it rocks!
Chat
Host your own live chat sessions, interact with your visitors and boost your sales, without needing any third party javascript or other code - works great with buddypress and multisite too.
Pro Sites
Create your own blog network with upgrades, like WordPress.com or Edublogs.org, offering your users premium themes, premium plugins, extra storage, advertising, domain mapping and more.
Pop Up!
Allows you to display a fancy popup (powered as a popover!) to visitors sitewide or per blog, a *very* effective way of advertising a mailing list, special offer or running a plain old ad.
Classifieds
Add Classifieds to your blog, network or BuddyPress site. Create and manage ads, upload images, send emails, charge your users for placing ads on your network or BuddyPress site.
Autoblog
This plugin automatically posts content from RSS feeds to different blogs on your WordPress Multisite network, it's like feedpress or wp-o-matic, except that it actually works, brilliantly and simply!
Membership Lite
Lite version of the most powerful, easy to use and flexible membership plugin for WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress sites available. Offer downloads, posts, pages, forums and more to paid members.
WordPress Chat Lite
Host your own live chat sessions, interact with your visitors and boost your sales, without needing any third party javascript or other code - works great with buddypress and multisite too.
Affiliates
The perfect affiliate marketing plugin for your WordPress site - allows your users to simply become affiliates, send you referrals, track their clicks and sales and get paid while you do!
MarketPress Lite
The free lite version of our powerful WordPress ecommerce plugin
Domain Mapping
The ultimate domain mapping plugin - allows multiple domain mapping on subdomain AND subdirectory installs, handles cross-domain cookie syncing and integrates with Pro Sites paid upgrades!
Simple Ads
This plugin does the advertising basics - essentially allowing you to simply insert ads before and after post content around your entire site with no option for users to remove them
MailChimp Integration
Simply integrate MailChimp with your Multisite (or regular old single user WP) site - automatically add new users to your email lists and import all your existing users
Signup Code
Limit who can sign up for a blog or user account at your site by requiring a special code that you can easily configure yourself
Upgrades Advertising
This plugin integrates with our 'Upgrades' functionality and allows you to simply configure advertisements to show before and after post content without having to touch a line of code.
Pay To Blog
Make your users pay to set up a blog with you - simple paypal integration allows you to charge new bloggers before they get their hands on all your juicy features!
Ad Sharing
Simply split advertising revenues with your users with this easy to use plugin. You can use adsense, context ads or any combination of advertising you like. Time to reap (and share) blogging rewards!
Who Sees Ads
Allows you to show ads (or any other content) on your site to users based on whether they are logged in, regular users, coming from search engines etc. - just like they do at wordpress.com
Admin Ads
This is a simple plugin that makes it easier to place a message in the admin panels that all users will see
