The inspiration for RewardingPosts came from the legendary Mark Joyner.

After a year long hiatus from blogging, and even from surfing, I came back online feeling a little behind the times.

While looking for up-to-date information, I found myself at a site offering Mark Joyner’s blogging course for free in exchange for writing a blog post about it.

I signed up, but never actually got around to reading the course.

The whole idea of offering free digital products in exchange for a blog post hit me as a stroke of genius, and I began to put plans for RewardingPosts together.

Mind you, it wasn’t called RewardingPosts then. It wasn’t called anything. It was just this thing I was going to make that’d help me give away cool stuff to get some attention and links for my blog which was so pathetic Google didn’t have a PageRank low enough for it.

As the plugin progressed, I started putting time and money into it. More than I could justify to my frugal little brain.

I though to myself, “I could sell a few copies of it, and at least break even.” But then I thought, “Man, if you sell it, the people who buy are going to want lifetime support, and you do NOT want this to be a life sentence.”

So, I thought, I could give it away, and hope some folks would donate a few bucks here and there.

And again I worried about support. But the Wordpress community is filled with people who are smarter than me, better coders than me, and a lot of them have actually READ the whole Wordpress API rather than just skimming it to find the interesting bits.

“If I created a site,“ I thought, “and set up a support forum where users could help eachother, I could still have a life, my business, and get the satisfaction of creating a kick-ass plugin.”

And that’s pretty much the story.  RewardingPosts works for me. I hope it works for you too.