Blair Williams

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Blair Williams

Affiliate Royale is Live

Affiliate Royale is Live

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Affiliate Royale is the ultimate, customizable affiliate program software for wordpressGuess what? Today Affiliate Royale is live. Finally!

In a nutshell, Affiliate Royale is a full Affiliate Program for your products that runs on your WordPress website — it just installs like any other WordPress plugin and is easy to get working with your shopping cart.

Anyway, go check out this awesome, new WordPress plugin over at http://affiliateroyale.com

Oh yeah, as promised we're offering a special deal on it for the launch, but you know that won't last long … so don't wait, get over there asap.

Pretty Link Bugs Squashed

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Today we released Pretty Link version 1.4.56. It fixes numerous bugs including:

  1. Pretty Link (Lite and Pro) is now 100% compatible with WordPress 3.1 and Multi-Site. Pretty Link has been running well with WordPress 3.1 but these Pretty Link fixes have been put in place so that future updates will work properly (especially when a Pretty Link release updates the database).
  2. Link slug availability routines have been shored up to allow pretty links from being able to utilize all slugs that truly don't conflict with page, post, category and tag slugs.
  3. Fixed link rotation form in Pretty Link Pro so that the link weights won't reset when the page is reloaded.
  4. Fixed a minor auto link creation issue that affected posts when the Default Group was set to “None” in Pretty Link Pro.
  5. Made several modifications to the hit resetting routines especially when Simple Click Tracking is enabled.
  6. Made several enhancements to the Keyword Replacement Routines in Pretty Link Pro.

We recommend that all Pretty Link Lite & Pro users upgrade to 1.4.56.

Reports about this release that have been coming in from users this morning have been very positive … so you have no excuse but to upgrade …

Where Did Pretty Link Cloaking and the Pretty Bar Go?

Where Did Pretty Link Cloaking and the Pretty Bar Go?

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This morning Pretty Link disappeared from the WordPress.org plugin repository because it didn't comply with a new, apparently undocumented policy that doesn't allow plugins to cloak links. Pretty Link wasn't the only plugin affected by this policy change, wordpress.org removed all plugins from the repository that allowed users to cloak links.

I've been working with the guys at wordpress.org this morning to get Pretty Link back on the repository. The only way to do this was to remove link cloaking, pretty bar and pixel tracking from the Pretty Link Lite versions 1.4.51 and beyond.

How will this change affect me?

Here are the facts you need to know about this significant change: [Read more…] about Where Did Pretty Link Cloaking and the Pretty Bar Go?

Why you Should use Self-Hosted WordPress for your Blog

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There was a great writeup on WebProNews about a blogging service (Blogetery) housing 70,000 blogs was shut down today by an unnamed government agency. Apparently it was due to some user generated content on Blogetery's servers.

Seriously — if your blog is at the center of your business, don't trust it to a free (or ultra-cheap) hosting service… Get some decent hosting and use self-hosted WordPress — it will give you more control and peace of mind.

4 Bulletproof Strategies for Making Money on Your Blog

4 Bulletproof Strategies for Making Money on Your Blog

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You spend insane hours on your blog — don't you think you ought to make some money from it? Yah — of course! Well, I'm here to tell you that there are many more ways to fund your blogging than just Google Ads. I want to show you the 4 most solid, bulletproof ways you can make money on your blog.
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WordPress.TV: How to Create a Premium WordPress Plugin

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WordPress.TV just posted my second presentation from OCWordCamp, “How to Create a Premium WordPress Plugin” … If you're thinking about putting together a Premium Plugin for WordPress, this video will show you a simple way you could go about it. This basically documents the system I've come up with for distributing and marketing a Premium WordPress Plugin:

Here are the slides for this presentation: How to Create a Premium WordPress Plugin

WordPress.TV: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin

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WordPress.TV just posted my presentation from OCWordCamp, “Pimp Your WordPress Plugin” … FYI — it's actually quite a bit more technical than it sounds — but if you want to learn some of my techniques for developing & maintaining larger-scale plugins, this is the one for you:

Here are the slides for this presentation: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin