Wordpress - Is it too late to bust into this economy?

CMS & WordPress
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I have been tinkering with the thought of creating a Plugin that does all the things I want it to do in wordpress as well as my own Genesis theme, or go rogue, and build a theme that works how I want. I love Genesis, and I love Gravity forms, I hate WooCommerce, and Kind of Like Easy Digital Downloads. Especially with S3 addon (which is only 5 lines of code by the way…30 bucks for 5 lines! I could have did the same thing. I need some hardcore critiques of my site at jurisdesk.com. I’m new at wordpress development and getting better daily.

Also if anyone knows some good cms tools, that are not expensive, preferably free. Let me know.

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You don’t need any “tools” other than a text editor.

That and spend a lot of time researching the Codex and testing your scripts and you’ll do OK

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Wait so for automating tasks like tracking client behavior, you don’t think that certain things are helpful? Are you saying to literally build everything from scratch including forms and products? Like Gravity forms for instance, I think it’s amazing and I honestly think that for things that like, why reinvent the wheel?

I guess my question is more along the lines of, is it worth taking time to build a plugin (which I have an idea for), that it will be worth it if it’s a great idea? For example, I find myself in situations sometimes where I’m like oooh I think I’ll use advanced custom fields and I should be able to make this happen, or I can use Gravity forms (which is great for the most part). But then I’m like well uhhh, why can’t I use payflow with gravity forms and set the interval for subscription services based on the type of plan that was purchased. Conditional logic or not, I still have to either build a very advanced form, with a ton of logic. Then I’m like, well what If I write a plugin that does exactly what I want and what I know others want and then offer it for free and pray it catches people and that premium addons can be built on top of it. It’s almost as If I have to create 3 forms for 3 different auto-billing intervals and then I start thinking well, this plugin is almost perfect.

So I’m wondering, since WP has been along for quite a long time (I’m from Philly and Wordcamp USA is coming here) and this is the first Wordcamp I’ll ever be at. Did I miss the wave, is it worth the time, or is it too late?

PS = That was only a tiny example above.

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I see your point.

If the goal is to be “worth it”,from what I can see what money remains to be made is in “premium” and / or support.

Else just write the plugin to do what you want it it do and if others use it, you got cred.you might be able to leverage

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