We have a checkbox in profiles where people…
We have a checkbox in profiles where people can say “I make my living from WordPress.” As of today, 19,932 people have checked that box.
It’s a neat data point, but also makes me curious about more.
I’d love to have a yearly survey we promote when we do a release to ask questions of the WP community that we’d love answered, perhaps collecting (and refining) them on a Codex page throughout the year.
What would you ask?
Aaron D. Campbell 11:55 pm on April 20, 2011 Permalink
For those (like me) that were having a hard time figuring out where that checkbox Matt was talking about was, it’s in your Support Forums profile NOT your profiles.wordpress.org profile.
Alex M. 12:04 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
Here’s some I could think of:
Andrea_R 12:06 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
How much time to they contribute to WordPress.org?
Edward Caissie 12:10 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
Following the original checkbox questions with sub-questions:
Do you make your living from Theme Design
Do you make your living from Plugin Development
Justin 12:29 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
I think a more in-depth survey, strictly WP-related, akin to what ALA does (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/survey2010) would be incredibly interesting. Not necessarily as in-depth, but more than just a single question.
Philip Arthur Moore 12:41 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
1. “Have you ever attended a WordPress WordCamp event?”
2. “Do you develop for other CMSs or are you primarily a WordPress developer?”
Jon Brown 12:53 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
While I think more granular data about how people make their living with WordPress would be cool, it’d also be interesting to hear what users do that are not making their living with WP.
Pro:
User
Also maybe with 3/4 check boxes for novice, intermediate, expert…
Then random stuff
Alex M. 12:55 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
BBCode doesn’t work in WordPress.
I’ve fixed your comment for you by switching to HTML, well specifically by putting asterisks in front of each of your list items (we have an asterisk -> list feature here on WP.com).
Mike Schinkel 1:25 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
Simple ask: “What do you do to make my living from WordPress?”
(Maybe add it next to the check box even?)
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Dan Schultz 4:08 pm on April 21, 2011 Permalink
The folks at A list Apart do an annual Web Design Survey – http://aneventapart.com/webdesignsurvey/ . Partnering or consulting with them might be helpful, or you could just reviewing their past questions & results for some inspiration.
DanDare 2:39 am on April 23, 2011 Permalink
Since I work on the Fraxion Payments plugin and we are starting to get a core user base you would have to include “selling my content” as one of the ways to earn a living. Right now we only have a bit over 100 locked posts/pages over about 8 web sites and around 200 readers with Fraxions to spend but it is growing. And you can include folks that make a buck out of google ads etc.