Digital License Manager Alternative: How DMSI DDLS Compares (2026) If you sell software through WordPress, you have probably already found Digital License Manager. It is a capable, actively maintained plugin, and for a lot of vendors it is the right answer. This post is for the people it is not the right answer for — the ones looking for a…
Selling WordPress Plugins Direct After Envato’s Fee Cut On 1 July 2026, Envato moved every ThemeForest and CodeCanyon author onto a flat 50% author fee. Before that, an established exclusive author could keep as much as 87.5% of an item's price — so for some authors this is roughly a 43% cut to income on the exact same sales. In…
Most project management tools fall into two camps. On one side, you have full-featured SaaS platforms that cost $10–$30 per seat per month, require an internet connection, and store everything in someone else’s cloud. On the other, you have spreadsheets and text files — free and local, but impossible to maintain once you have more than a handful of things…
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes with running a business alone. You can see exactly what needs to be done. You know that a proper SEO audit would help. You know that better documentation would reduce support requests. You know that a QA pass before each release would stop embarrassing bugs from reaching customers. You also know that…
Growing a business usually means needing more expertise than one person can carry. You need someone who understands development, someone who knows SEO, someone who can handle marketing, someone to test what's been built. Hiring specialists for all of that isn't realistic until the business can support it — and by that point, you've already lost the months when that…
If someone told you they had an assistant who could write code, fix bugs, update your website, and run your marketing campaign — all without being asked twice — you'd probably want to hire that person immediately. Claude Code is the AI version of that. Minus the salary negotiations. But let's start from the beginning, because this is one of…
DMSI DDLS vs Freemius: Self-Hosted vs SaaS Licensing Compared (2026) If you are a WordPress plugin or theme developer looking for a freemius alternative self-hosted solution, you are facing one of the most important business decisions in your product journey: should you use a SaaS platform that handles everything for a percentage of your revenue, or should you self-host your…
Why validate license keys at all? If you sell software, you need to validate license keys for the same reason a cinema checks tickets at the door: without the check, the product works exactly as well for someone who paid as for someone who did not. The moment you decide to validate license keys, the next question is where that…
What is a WordPress license manager? A WordPress license manager is a plugin that issues a licence key for every sale, checks that key against the sites it has been activated on, and withdraws access when the licence expires or the order is refunded. Without one, a paying customer and a shared zip file look identical to your store. A…
The True Cost of WordPress Plugin Licensing Solutions (2026 Breakdown) If you have ever tried to figure out the real price of licensing your WordPress plugins, you know the frustration. Marketing pages show you monthly prices, annual prices, revenue percentages, and gateway fees — but rarely does anyone add them all up and give you the Total Cost of Ownership…