I was recently made aware of a couple of plugin thieves who have taken my code, rebranded it as their own (calling it AmazonPress), redirected the tip to themselves, and made it mandatory rather than optional with no notice to the website owner. In my opinion this constitutes theft from both myself as well as their clients/victims. By not giving credit to me as the original author they are also in violation of the terms of the GPL.
From their site: “We have been online for about 4 years now, we decided to jump in and create an open source plugin for wordpress, it seems there is a need for an amazon plugin that actually works properly, so we decided to go ahead and develop one. Soon to come we will be creating new and awesome plugins.”
If you’re a plugin developer, you better watch out because they might be “creating” your plugin next! If you already use their plugin, you may want to consider another option as they are stealing your commissions without your knowledge or consent. May I recommend the original AmazonFeed?
I’m happy to announce I have completed work on AmazonFeed v. 1.9. This version includes some very cool features including:
- Ability to sort the order in which products appear sitewide we well as customizing the sort order on individual posts.
- Ability to choose where the products appear on the posts/pages, whether below (default) or above the post content.
- Ability to choose whether or not specific products are displayed in association with individual keywords. You can block specific products on the cache control page.
Hope you like this new version. You can download it from WordPress.org. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments area below.
I am happy to announce that I have upgraded AmazonFeed to support the new Amazon security requirements coming into place on Aug. 15′th. If you are currently using AmazonFeed v. 1.3 or lower, you will want to upgrade to 1.4 or higher before Aug. 15, in order to continue displaying Amazon products on your site using this plugin.
You can read more about or download AmazonFeed on this page.
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of late evenings working on a new WordPress plugin called “Link Directory”. Essentially it will allow the blog owner to run a link directory/portal on their WordPress blog without too much management headache. Though I am still working out the rough spots, I already have it running here on this blog, replacing the old LinkDirectory hack I had built. Feel free to browse around or suggest other links/categories.
I’ve posted some screenshots of the administrative interface below. I would love to hear some feedback on it as well as any suggestions you might have. Feel free to post thoughts below.
Administrative Screenshots:
Administrative Dashboard
Administrative Sub-Category View
As mentioned above, I would love to hear any thoughts, suggestions or feature requests you might have. Feel free to post them here.
Just for fun, we thought we’d run a poll to find out how helpful AmazonFeed has been to you and your website. So, feel free to rate your success with it below.
Has our AmazonFeed plugin helped you make money with your site? If so, how much?
This plugin will allow you to make money on your website as an Amazon.com affiliate. It enables you to automatically advertise products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topic you are writing about.
Features:
- Automatically load category or tag related products from Amazon.com.
- Earn rewards as an affiliate, simply by entering your affiliate tracking code.
- Provide valuable additional content to your visitors on the topics of your posts.
- Total control to tailor results for any given post.
- Excellent content caching for lightning fast response times.
- Ability to disable related products from being displayed at all on any given post.
- NOT JavaScript based, meaning it is not hidden from users with no JavaScript capability.
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I’m very excited to announce the release of SendFeed, a brand new RSS/XML Feed to Email WordPress plugin.
The SendFeed Plugin for WordPress allows you to send your latest post from your RSS feed to an external Mailing List Manager in both text and HTML formats.
It is capable of sending messages out immediately, at predefined intervals such as daily/weekly/monthly or manually. Also, the text and HTML templates are completely customizable on a per feed basis so you can tailor the emails to suit the list or feed you are using.
The plugin was developed by me while working for TruthMedia. We have just released the very first edition of the plugin on WordPress.org.
You can find it at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sendfeed/
Original Post Here: http://truthmedia.com/2008/11/19/sendfeed-v-11-released/
As a PHP coder and web developer, I have recently discovered and fallen in love with a tool which helps to keep my source code safely backed up. This tool is called Subversion and “it is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.” (1) In simple terms, it allows you to back up your files and keeps a history of all the versions of files that you send to it.
This is VERY useful when doing PHP development because as you develop your application you can commit versions of the files to the Subversion (SVN) repository and it will keep track of all the changes you have made. If necessary, you can even revert back to older versions.
One of the difficulties that I have run into while doing website development is how to keep the live remote website synchronized with my local working copy. This is especially true of WordPress installations where editors may be uploading new pictures or documents to the site on a daily basis. If you are not constantly downloading the latest copy of the website, your local copy will be out-of-date and may cause problems in your development.
Subversion to the Rescue:
However, I have come up with a relatively simple solution to this problem, which utilizes the controls within Subversion, to both back up the data on the LIVE website, as well as providing version control for all the site data as a whole. For the sake of simplicity, I will be using a WordPress website as my example, but the concepts here could be applied to essentially any website.
One of the useful features of Subversion is the ability to run what they refer to as “hook scripts” at different points in the versioning process. For example, an SVN repository can be configured to run a set of scripts directly after any data is “committed” to it. (sending data to the repository is called “committing” the data) For this example, this is exactly the functionality we are going to be using.
Before I go any further though, let’s go over some of the requirements for setting up a website and subversion repository in this way.
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I am very excited to announce the public (beta) release of the FormBuilder WordPress plugin on WordPress.org. FormBuilder is a project which was inspired, in part, by my work on FormContact 1.0 and came about as a result of our need for a good yet simple form building utility for WordPress.
The plugin was developed by me while working for TruthMedia. At the time of writing, it is at v. 0.57 and is compatible with WordPress 1.5 – 2.5. If you have a WordPress blog already, why not check it out!
I recently was directed to an article on Nerdaphernalia discussing how to turn a single WordPress installation into multiple blogs. What a lovely concept! Instead of having to maintain multiple installations with an array of plugins and themes to ensure continue to work, you can run one filesystem, managing multiple blogs.
Nerdaphernalia » Virtual Multiblog for WordPress
Lately, I have been increasingly impressed by the flexibility and power of using WordPress as a Content Management System. The organization I work for has been exploring all the possibilities of using it as a fully functional CMS and so far we have been very impressed. What it doesn’t do straight out of the box, there are plugins for. And as a PHP developer, if I can’t find a plugin, I can make one.
