Despite the widespread belief that can be distilled from rude comments and reviews on the wp.org plugin repo, maintaining a free plugin is not free. It doesn’t matter whether you charge for a plugin or not, hours still go into it! And while you may argue how bad a plugin is because you found two bugs in it someone invested time and money into it. Due to an overwhelming amount of abandoned plugins in the repository, I decided to clarify a simple premise – how do free plugins get financed and why the lack of money is the number one cause of abandoned plugins. Just because something is free for you it doesn’t mean it materialized itself out of thin air. Consequently, just because a plugin is free, it doesn’t mean it magically appeared on the developer’s computer.
The models and perils of running a free plugin
By no means is there a finite amount of ways people finance their free plugins. Imagination knows no limits, but statistics are often cruel and show that ninety-something percent of ideas fall into just a few buckets. Hence, stats say, most WordPress plugins fall into one of the buckets described below.
Most resources needed to create a WordPress plugin
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17910/maintaining-free-wordpress-plugins-is-not-free
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/maintaining-free-wordpress-plugins-is-not-free/
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