Take care of your name, don't use nulled WordPress plugins and themes.
Tags: wordpress, php, career
Published: 2020-07-21 07:22:19

**Name is brand and value, don't use nulled WordPress themes and plugins, don't' crush your own career and future.**

Does not matter what you call yourself, a developer (this article is written mostly for theme developers, who use plugins), creator, etc. If you search in google, you can find tons of technical articles about avoiding using nulled WordPress themes and plugins, which is sometimes criminal, insecure, gives no access to technical support, updates are not available, SEO will not work and the website can be blacklisted by Google, etc. Unfortunately, not everyone understands it and continues to use nulled themes and plugins.

![Let's first see what WordPress is and what its idea is](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/0uc756ds203obi81agyq.png)

Let's first see what WordPress is and what its idea is.

_"WordPress is a software designed for everyone, emphasizing accessibility, performance, security, and ease of use._

_We believe in democratizing publishing and the freedoms that come with open source. Supporting this idea is a large community of people collaborating on and contributing to this project. The WordPress community is welcoming and inclusive. Our contributors' passion drives the success of WordPress which, in turn, helps you reach your goals.
WordPress started in 2003. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed under the GPLv2. It is also the platform of choice for over 35% of all sites across the web"._

[More about WordPress](https://wordpress.org/about/)

Yes, WordPress is a free open source content management system. It gives us huge opportunities to make few page blogs or complex websites, popular news portals, or very high-quality promo pages with animations, interactions, and games.

Big companies can be discovered that use WordPress, like BBC, Microsoft, Toyota, etc.

[BBC](https://www.bbcamerica.com/)
[TOYOTA](https://www.toyota.com.br/)

Or any kind of technically difficult sites, which are created on WordPress too, with a great user interface.

[MCX](https://mcx.pl/)
[NEUNDEX](https://www.neundex.com/)

This is my favorite e-commerce website with beautiful animations. It was created in my former company by my colleagues.

[BIOCHIMPHARM](https://biochimpharm.com/)

Also with WordPress are written free or premium themes, that can be used multiple times by bloggers, self-employers, and many kinds of companies for different purposes.

[THEMEFOREST](https://themeforest.net/)

What you have to know if you are not a developer, is that thousands of developers are behind private or paid plugins and themes. WordPress developers are coding very complex programs every day, there are hundreds of thousands of written code lines and these people are paid for their job, they improve plugins and themes because people buy them and no one likes it when someone steals code or other property.

Being part of this powerful world, you can learn to create something that no one has created before, WordPress gives you opportunities for it. Find out how easy and friendly [WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/) is.

I am a web developer, I write themes myself and try not to use plugins, even premium (that's another story). I don't know a lot about PRO themes that are located, for example, on ThemeForest, but giant plugins like [ACF](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/pro/), [WP-ROCKET](https://wp-rocket.me/), [WPML](https://wpml.org/), or others, are talking about themselves without additional information.

You should understand that you are a brand, for example, your name is Johny Silverman. If your product (website) with nulled theme or plugins will crash, or have some troubles, the client will never order anything the second time, and will write a negative review about you, as you do it on Amazon or a restaurant, where you have had a bad steak… You can't change your name, you can't rebrand yourself, you will always be Johny Silverman who uses nulled themes and plugins and has a very bad reputation. And if you use nulled themes and plugins for your own business, you are twice silly, because you will not only lose your reputation, you also must build a new website for customers.

Most times, guys who use nulled themes, can't even imagine what is going on behind UI. There could be some malware or advertising for every twentieth visitor which was included by the person who nulled the theme, there could be a script that steals personal information and you will never know about it, but once a client finds out, your reputation will crash with your site. Most of the clients, who use websites for their small business, don't understand what WordPress is, what WordPress themes&plugins and WordPress nulled themes&plugins are. Unfortunately, this can be exploited by not knowing, or what are the worst, dishonest people.

Maybe some people think that big companies specialized on WordPress development don't care about few nulled themes, but I live in a small country with a poor economy, we have companies or independent developers who get money for themes and plugins development, and for the theme, every nulled theme or plugin is a loss of tangible earnings, and for big companies, it is also loss.

No one will hire you, because, at every company, where you apply for a job, there will be someone who knows what you did, in each community, there will be a guy who knows how you get money and no one will hire you.

**Reasons to pay for plugins and themes.**

Developers who create plugins and themes will improve them and sites will be better, job quality will also improve and reputation will rise, there will be more customers and cash income. It is in our interest to use legal products and help authors improve them or make some contribution…

If you don't have the programming knowledge to write your own plugin, don't have money to buy, or just don't want to pay for it, you can be content with free alternatives. WordPress gives you a lot of opportunities to make full value websites for your clients or for yourself and monetize them without violating copyrights and risking name.

Thanks