Envato Elite Author

It finally happened. Few days ago I surpassed 75,000$ selling my items on Envato.

My rewards are:

• the Elite Author badge: 
• 12 months subscription to the revamped Tuts+ (cool!)
• Google Analytics enabled on my user profile.

this is an incredible achievement. I started to sell my items just for fun in 2012 and my first items were not really irresistible, but I learnt a lot during these years.

I also made many errors, that’s for sure. A lesson I learnt is: there is no hurry! I published items even when they needed more work to be complete, just because I was afraid someone else could publish something similar. So I’ve probably never had a “boom” about sales, instead I constantly increased my sales by adding features and quality to my items.

Today I have 7 items on CodeCanyon and the best selling are my WordPress galleries. I’m also really proud of my jQuery plugin: Final Tiles Grid Gallery, it’s purchased by more than 1,300 people and counting.

I’d really like to start a new product, probably another kind of gallery as it’s the niche I love. But before starting that I really want to make my other products perfect. I’m happy I recently hired an assistance, so I have a great help and I can boost the development of the new features.

Let’s see what we are working on.

The plugin is growing day by day. Recently I’ve added new features like:

• new admin panel restyle using Material Design
• WooCommerce gallery integration
• color of the loading bar
• background color of the loading bar
• image loaded effects: zoom in, zoom out, rotation, horizontal slide and vertical slide
• caption font size
• enable caption frame and choose its color
• choose the size of the images of the admin panel

The next feature we’re working on:

• import/export galleries
• new images sources: Flickr, Facebook, Instagram and NextGen
• new columns layout

All these features are available also for the free version: Final Tiles Grid Gallery Lite. The free version reached 20,000 downloads few days ago.

This WordPress gallery has a complicated story. At the beginning, its name was “Tiles Gallery” and it was my very first WordPress plugin. It was quite far from being perfect but people loved it. After a year I decided to completely rewrite it and I deleted from the marketplace. That has to be done because I really couldn’t keep a backward compatibility.

When I published the new version, called “Mikado Grid Gallery” it got a discrete success and it was even chosen by the Envato team as Featured item of the week. But I have to admit, I have not given the same love I gave to Final Tiles Gallery.

Nevermind, I’m already planning new features for this plugin and my assistant is already working on them. This is our TODO list:

• brand new admin panel with Material Design
• loading effects
• images sources: posts, Flickr, Facebook, NextGen

and I’m also planning to make a free version. So there’s a lot to do but we’re not scared

Do you have any suggestion or a feature you would like to have? Just let us know!

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