It seems like it may be so.
We got an inside look into an upcoming plugin and theme that can help others using WordPress to crowd fund/source there next great project. It looks like they’ve created both a theme and an add-on via Pippin Williamson’s plugin Easy Digital Downloads and it might just be amazing.
So we touched based with Adam Pickering and he gave us a real 411. Check it:
1. Ok, So What’s the Deal with Crowd Funding and WordPress? What’s the Scoop?
The idea behind AppThemer is to create application type themes that do innovative things. Our first being the first WordPress crowdfunding theme and plugin combo.
We saw what was currently available for people to run their own crowd funding website using the power of WordPress and thought that the current offerings were too complex or the design was lacking.
We think we’ve been able to step up to the plate with a beautiful looking theme and a plugin that is rock-solid.
Link to plugin here, demo page here.
2. How Have You Seen Crowd Funding grow and change over the last few years? How Will Your Implementation Be Different?
Our implementation allows anyone to Crowd fund anything you want, most crowd funding sites have limitations and crazy policies good or bad (think what you will) that block many people from running a crowd funding campaign and over the years we’ve seen a growing number of people wanting to setup their own campaigns on their site for example musicians, artists, this was the main reason for the plugin and theme.
3. Do You Think WordPress is Ready for a WordPress-centric CF system?
Certainly. With the growth and evolution eCommerce solutions for WordPress over the past year, many unique opportunities have opened up.
Being able to create a crowd funding extension is an example of how powerful some of these systems already are.
To harness power of an existing plugin, and easily having the ability to add more functionality is one of the great things about WordPress, and the WordPress community.
4. How Can Others Help to Make the Vision a Reality?
We are looking for developers to get involve with the project for adding more features and adding support for pre-approval payment gateways.
Currently we support out of the box any gateway that Easy Digital Downloads supports and we’ve worked hard to ensure that the PayPal Adaptive Payments gateway for pre-approval payments integrates for an easy way to only charge when a campaign is funded, and collect a commission on pledges.
I believe Pippin will be working on a Stripe pre-approval gateway that we will be supporting. The plugin is over on GitHub so people can help us!
Github link: https://github.com/appthemer
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