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Archive for December 2009

WPQuestions Seeks Partnerships with Theme and Plugin Developers

We’re about to launch two new programs that would earn revenue for WordPress developers while increasing visibility and improving support for their projects.

Congratulations to Darfuria, our first Expert to win over $100

Congratulations to Darfuria who just became our first Expert to win over $100! We hope within the next few months we’ll be offering congratulations to the first Expert to earn over $1,000.
WPQ is a true partnership—in the eyes of our customers, it is only as good as the Experts who answer the questions here. [...]

How to Ask a Question on WP Questions

For new users, we wanted to put up a brief tutorial on the process of asking a new question and making payment arrangements through PayPal.
In Step 1, you are prompted for a Question Title (65 characters or less) and Extended Explanation:

Our aim is to create a market for WordPress help, [...]

How to Assign Prize Money to Experts

To address some recent questions about how WPQuestions works, we’ve written the first of a few tutorials. Below, we demonstrate what happens after you, the Asker, has logged in and asked a question.

Here is your sample question:

As the Asker, you will see this button next to each answer (login required):

It doesn’t matter who you [...]

New Feature: Email Updates

To make WPQuestions more time-sensitive, we’ve added a few email update features.

A Change in Pricing Policy

We’ve decided to experiment with pricing for awhile to see how it affects participation in the site. As I mentioned in another post, Askers can now post question for as little as $4. We decided that instead of imposing a minimum price based on our own idea of standards, we should let that happen organically [...]

The Best of WPQuestions #1

As regularly as we can, we will be posting a “Best of WPQ” which re-publishes recent Expert contributions that we think are especially innovative, useful or noteworthy.
Currently, expired questions are only visible, via the control panel, to people who participated in them. Eventually we will implement a subscription-based plan for users who want searchable [...]

Living with the Launch

Right up until the day we launched WPQuestions, we were adding new features. Originally we had planned to launch the site in October, but other issues arose. I’m glad we pulled the trigger when we did. If you look at our to-do list, it’s obvious we could have spent the next 2 months adding those [...]

The First Week for WPQuestions

A week after its launch, I’m happy to say WPQuestions has gotten overwhelming positive feedback and healthy traffic. The community has reached 300+ registered members who are beginning to accumulate earnings. This exceeded our expectations.
It felt especially tricky to launch this project within a development community like WordPress where issues like premium themes and GPL [...]

A clarification about PayPal accounts

Several people have written to ask what sort of relationship exists between their WP Questions accounts and their PayPal account. I apologize that we did not do a better job explaining this. The answer is that there is no relationship.
Some people thought that if they wanted to ask a question, they needed to use [...]