{"id":1360,"date":"2018-07-11T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1360"},"modified":"2018-08-21T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:49:36","slug":"wordpress-plugin-development-for-developers-and-business-owners","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/wordpress-plugin-development-for-developers-and-business-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugin Development for Developers and Business Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How to deliver and receive success and excellence<\/h3>\n<p>This talk will focus on the success and failures from building a 6 figure plugin sales business.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever made a plugin, and asked yourself what on earth you were thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Or did you buy a plugin and it had no end of problems, but the developers weren\u2019t supportive?<\/p>\n<p>Some plugins are great, work seamlessly with your website, and deliver on what they promised.<\/p>\n<p>Some are really, really bad. 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