Makes you wonder what WordPress itself would look like if it went this 'freemium' route. Probably something like: Free core $10 for comments $10 for user accou

Makes you wonder what WordPress itself would look like if it went this 'freemium' route. Probably something like: Free core $10 for comments $10 for user accounts $10 for post types $10 for the theme customiser... well maybe that's one less of an issue Etc Plus god knows how many banners and ads stuck all around the dashboard. Yeah, it's not a great situation, and it definitely feels like a lot of major plugin creators are either spamming the hell out of their uses or nickle and diming them for every little 'feature' they can think of. Still, I guess it could be worse. Some open source scripts (looks at OpenCart) and many paid ones (looks at IPB and XenForo) seem to have communities where every little thing in the plugin directory has a price attached to it. Definitely feels like the community spirit has mostly died out and been replaced by a bunch of agencies pumping out plugins like they're in some of gold rush.