Twitter Poll – How Much You Would Like to Pay for Using WordPress
November 28, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi
Filed under Blogging, Blogging Resource
I fall prey to twitter mania, I’ve been watching from quite some time every one tweeting tweets at twitter. Problogger Darren Rowse advocate the use of this valuable service and can’t resist being additive to it, he is so obsessed with this new phenomenon that he has dedicated one blogging site of his giving twitter tips to users. The best thing which I like about twitter is this whole “Twitter Poll” thing. I had seen so many times at john Chow’s and Shoemoney’s blog, various poll conducted by these bloggers and lots of twitter user tweeting their opinion on a variety of issues.
To start with I ask my follower that “WordPress is an open source blogging software, but if they ask to pay to use WordPress then how much they would like to pay?’
As am not a hot shot bloggers only few twitter users responded to my opinion call. But i was more curious to present this on my blog rather then looking for plenty of responses, then the question was; how to integrate these twitter’s tweets into a WordPress blog post? One more time I am very thankful to truly god sent john Chow who comes to my rescue and guides me how I can integrate twitters tweets in a blog post in a more professional way.
@DaveCarruthers (Dave Carruthers) says:@shankerbakshi I wouldnt pay to use Wordpress as someone will always offer an open source alternative, take note typepad.
@nachase (nachase) says:@shankerbakshi If WordPress were a paid software, I would pay $75.00. It has incredible ease of use, excellent plugins and a huge user base
@sipperphoto (Sipper Photography) says:@shankerbakshi I’d pay for WP, if it wasn’t outrageously expensive… It is pretty badass software!
@PrayForWindTodd (Todd Wetzelberger) says:@shankerbakshi – I’d pay $10/month for single, prob $20/multiple, but need to have some monetization built in or value add, support, etc
@mymelange (Robin Locker) says:@shankerbakshi Less than $8.95-cause I have typepad and that’s wat I pay now. And I *heart* typepad!!
@AmishPhoneBook (Jeffrey H.) says:@shankerbakshi WP would be worthless like Microsoft. It is community based and that is one of the reasons it is great!
@sensuouswife (sensuouswife) says:@shankerbakshi I would pay to not use it. I find wp extremely difficult to use. my theory is its like being right handed or left handed.
@isfan (isfan) says:@shankerbakshi wordpress isn’t totally free. lots of paid extras like ability to edit css. basically a good freemium model.
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I wont mind paying amount (may be $10/month) if I start earning for living while using wordpress.
I say : Pay money if only it generates income with guarantee.
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I guess a huge bunch of blogger will shift to a free CMS system if wordpress were to charge a monthly fee for using it. Many bloggers are already hesitating about the hosting cost and with the addition of wordpress cost, many will just leave.
Maybe it sounds good for serious bloggers since there will be less competitors. =) But anyway, I will accept anything from $10-$30. Anything more would cost too much.
Wei Liang
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Oh my! If this is the case I rather stick to use a free blogger template, why? though $25 for a year is not that expensive only to those who earn to their site. But in my case, having a graphics website is just a way of compiling all my photoshop design to a single pop-up for me to see it when I need it.
But if, if I will earn those dollars just like others did, $100 or $200 per year is not a big amount for me because it is not the money that counts here, that most important thing here was the services that WordPress gave to us.
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$10 a month is a decent amount to pay or this service.
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Oops. I missed your poll in twitter.
But I have already answered that question in your sidebar poll.. I answered $25 per year 
But of course I want it to be open source 
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PRobably the same amount as blog hosting..
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It is pretty astonishing that for the power of wordpress, that it is free. I think that it is also has a lot to do with the fact that it is free, that it’s so powerful. I couldn’t put a max amount I would spend on it, but I don’t think I would pay for it if it was a service, but one time price I could do. Anything more than $499 for universal lisence, I would just write my own
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WordPress rocks! Well I hope that it stays free, but yeah, don’t mind paying a few dollars per month
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