A small, signed donation programme — not a foundation, not a marketplace.
A short editorial document about what this programme is, what it includes, what it costs, and why the author runs it.
A donation, not a discount.
This is the page where I document what the programme is and how it works in practice. It exists because nonprofits, year after year, have written to ask whether the plugins I sell are available to them in some reduced form. The honest answer is yes — but as a donation, granted person to person, not as a coupon code or a tier inside a marketplace.
The programme is run from this site, signed by my name. It is not a foundation, it has no staff, and it does not represent any organisation other than my own work as a WordPress plugin author. Every licence delivered through this programme is one that I would otherwise sell, granted in full, with the same support I give paying customers.
If a programme like this is going to mean anything, the person behind it has to be visible, identifiable, and answerable. That is the whole point.— José Conti
§ 02 — What is includedWhat you receive when you are accepted.
| Plugin licences | One licence per plugin requested, valid for the entity’s lifetime. Reassignable across staff changes. |
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| Updates | All major and minor releases included. No artificial expiry. |
| Support | Direct e-mail support from the author. Response within 5 working days. |
| Migration help | Guidance from another plugin to mine, including data import where applicable. |
| Localisation | Spanish and English supported in product UI; further locales prioritised on request. |
| Contact for life | You retain a stable e-mail address you can write to as long as the programme exists. |
It is free, and the conditions are short.
There is no monetary cost to the recipient. There is no tier, no upgrade, no service charge. The programme is funded entirely by the rest of my catalogue and by my own time. I keep one short list of conditions, written here so they are visible:
- Your organisation continues to be a legally registered nonprofit. If you cease to be one, please let me know and we will close the licence amicably.
- You do not redistribute the plugins outside your organisation. The licence covers your sites, not third parties.
- You credit the programme on a public page of your site if your charter allows it. If it does not, no credit is required.
A short note on motivation.
I have been writing WordPress plugins since 2004. The work I am proudest of has tended to land in the hands of small organisations — cultural associations, neighbourhood charities, environmental groups — who used the tools well and asked good questions. After enough of those exchanges, the right thing to do became obvious: stop billing them.
This is not a charity vehicle. It is a programme run by one person, in writing, with a paper trail. If it can pass the test of being identifiable and answerable in the face of the noise that exists around “free WordPress plugins”, it will have done its job.