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Formidable Pro: The Best Form Builder for WordPress

Formidable Pro: The Best Form Builder for WordPress

by Blair Williams · Feb 9, 2010

An amazing new plugin launched last weekend. Its called Formidable Pro and is hands down the best, most innovative and easy to use form builder for WordPress I've ever used. The author of this plugin is one of my good friends — Stephanie Wells over at Strategy 11 and has done a remarkable job.

I guess calling this plugin a simple “form builder” is a bit of an understatement — people with no knowledge of HTML, CSS or programming can create extremely complex forms with ease. In fact, you can script and build all kinds of user interactions on your site with Formidable Pro. Check out some of these features:

  • Fully AJAXified Form Builder — This makes it dead simple to build any kind of form you want within seconds. With pure, drag & drop controls and in-place editing you don't need to know the first thing about HTML or CSS to be extremely effective immediately. [Read more…] about Formidable Pro: The Best Form Builder for WordPress

Filed Under: Plugins, Surveys Tagged With: Form Builder, Formidable Pro, Forms, plugins, Strategy 11, Wordpress

New Pretty Link Video Tutorials Added

New Pretty Link Video Tutorials Added

by Blair Williams · Nov 9, 2009

demoI've had a ton of requests from Pretty Link and Pretty Link Pro users to update and expand my video tutorials for these products. I've finally gotten around to recording the first of these.

Do you need help with:

  • Getting started with Pretty Link on your WordPress Website
  • Setting up Pretty Link Redirects
  • Organizing your links with Pretty Link Groups
  • Advanced Link Options
  • Tracking Hits on your Pretty Links
  • Pretty Link Global Options

[Read more…] about New Pretty Link Video Tutorials Added

Filed Under: How Tos, Pretty Link, Pretty Link Pro, Pretty Link Pro, Tutorials Tagged With: pretty-link, Tutorials

How To Start Shrinking Links On Your Domain Name in 5 minutes: Pretty Link Introduction Video

by Blair Williams · Oct 26, 2009

Let me show you how easy it is to be up and running with Pretty Link on your WordPress website in 5 minutes or less!

Download (Right-Click & Select “Save-As”)

Filed Under: How Tos, Pretty Link, Tutorials Tagged With: Domain Name, Installation, pretty-link, started, Video

More Twitter Automation Comes to Pretty Link Pro

More Twitter Automation Comes to Pretty Link Pro

by Blair Williams · Oct 14, 2009

multi_twitterIn the 1.4.27 release of Pretty Link Pro there are some major refinements. The first of these refinements is the ability to set up multiple twitter accounts that your blog can post to. You can now automatically post notifications of each of your blog posts to however many Twitter accounts you want to simultaneously. This feature arose from my need to tweet posts out to 3 twitter accounts that I own — before I was auto tweeting to my main account @supercleanse and then re-tweeting to my other two. This was time consuming and kind of defeated the purpose of auto tweeting altogether.

In addition to multiple twitter accounts, we've optimized the page load time for users of the social media button bar, re-tweet badge and of Pretty Link. Many of the SQL queries were slowing down some of the page load times.

Finally, we made many back end changes to the system so that it will be able to accommodate some of the awesome new features we have planned next (some of which were revealed in this month's survey). Enjoy!

UPDATE: Okay, so there was actually a significant bug that was released with version 1.4.27 — if you haven't done it already go out and upgrade to 1.4.28 where it has been fixed! Sorry for any issues.

Filed Under: Pretty Link, Pretty Link Pro, Twitter Tagged With: Automation, Pretty Link Pro, pretty-link, release, twitter

Pretty Link Adds Robot Filtering and a Bunch of Other Goodies

Pretty Link Adds Robot Filtering and a Bunch of Other Goodies

by Blair Williams · Sep 21, 2009

johnny5Over the years, I've learned it can be hard to tell the difference between a Robot and Human … er … well that is, on the Internet. Pretty Link and Pretty Link Pro can now help you unmask those pesky robots clicking your links. There have also been several other features and bug fixes added in the last week that I'd like to update you on and give you a little bit of info about:

Robot Hit Filtering

This one has been a long time coming. You can now go into “Pretty Link” -> “Options” under “Reporting” and select Filter Robots. Robot Filtering will only work for new links — any robot hits that were recorded in a version of Pretty Link before version 1.4.21 won't be able to be filtered. With that said, if you're really wanting your old hits to have the ability to be filtered just comment on this post — if there's a demand, I'll post some code that you can run on your server to do this effectively. Another thing to know about the robot filtering is that it will eliminate the lion's share of bots (like 99% of them) — but there may be a few that slip through the cracks — I'm working on some future enhancements that will close the gap on this — but for now, if you still see 1 or 2 bots in your hit list don't be alarmed.
[Read more…] about Pretty Link Adds Robot Filtering and a Bunch of Other Goodies

Filed Under: Pretty Link Tagged With: features, pretty-link, Public Link Creation, Robot

Social Network Buttons for Posts Added to Pretty Link Pro

by Blair Williams · Sep 6, 2009

I just added (in version 1.4.18) a simple but extremely useful feature to Pretty Link Pro — the social network buttons bar. This feature will put a configurable row of social networking buttons on your posts and/or pages that use your Pretty Links!

To enable this feature, just go to your “Pro Options” menu item, click “Page and Post Options”, make sure Automatic Pretty Link creation is enabled on pages and/or posts, and then click the checkbox to enable the social networks button bar… Now you can configure which buttons to display and where to display them (above or below your page/post content).

I'm personally excited to start using this feature on all of my sites — you can actually see it on this post. While this feature is cool and very useful, it is only the beginning — you can expect to start seeing even more exciting enhancements to this feature very soon.

Filed Under: Pretty Link Pro Tagged With: Digg, facebook, Pretty Link Pro, social networks, twitter

Pretty Link Pro Officially Launched

Pretty Link Pro Officially Launched

by Blair Williams · Sep 2, 2009

prettylink_no_bg2When I put the pre-launch version of Pretty Link Pro (PLP) out on the market at the end of July, I really didn't know what to expect. Well, let's just say the past month has been a wild ride. ๐Ÿ™‚ Scores of people downloaded PLP and I released a ton of fixes and new features. Seriously, look at how much has been added to PLP (above and beyond its already impressive feature set) in just the first month:

  1. Automatic Tweeting of scheduled & XML-RPC posts
  2. The Pretty Link Bookmarklet (for creating pretty links outside of your WordPress admin)
  3. Bulk Editing / Bulk Deletion UI enhancements for the Pretty Link Management page
  4. Public Link creation widget and shortcode (for site owners who want to allow their users to create pretty links using the website's url)
  5. The Quick Add Dashboard Widget
  6. Alternate URL configuration (you can use a shorter version of your url)
  7. Short URL auto-discovery for Posts & Pages
  8. Randomized Keyword Replacements when using replacement thresholds
  9. Slug & message customization for automatic post tweeting
  10. URL Aliases for counting tweets that go to your blog post but are different from your pretty link
  11. Many more smaller fixes & refinements …

Roadmap

Pretty Link Pro has rapidly become a solid and feature rich link management platform that many websites owners are relying on more and more every day — and it's only going to get better! Here's a small roadmap of some of the upcoming features will be available exclusively to Pretty Link Pro users in the coming months:

  1. PrettyBar enhancements — I've had many requests for ways to make the Pretty Bar more customizable, more interactive and more helpful. Here are just some of the enhancements I have planned:
    1. 100% control of the HTML & CSS without having to modify files every time you upgrade PLP
    2. Tweet badge which can be optionally integrated into the PrettyBar (you'll be able to get a tweet count on any link you create that uses the prettybar)
    3. Ability to modify or remove the Pretty Link Attribution link on the PrettyBar (PLP users are starting to manually replace the standard link I have there with their affiliate links — which I think is a fantastic idea so I'm making it easier to do so)
  2. UI enhancements — there are a myriad of enhancements to the UI that are in the works right now. These enhancements will make creating and managing your links sooo much easier
  3. Better website analytics compatibility
  4. Group specific link defaults — you'll be able to override the global link creation defaults depending on what group a link is placed in.
  5. Firefox Pretty Link Pro Sidebar Widget — this will be a *huge* enhancement — since Pretty Link is getting more hooks into twitter and other social media platforms, you'll be able to do many of the tasks you'd normally perform within your wordpress admin right from Firefox!
  6. Many other smaller — but awesome features ๐Ÿ™‚

And remember that even if you purchase PLP today, you'll receive all of these future updates absolutely free!

Affiliate Program

Also, don't forget that when you purchase Pretty Link Pro, you'll automatically be enrolled in the Pretty Link Pro Affiliate Program … So you'll get a 50% commission for every person that purchases PLP using your affiliate link (which you'll get when you purchase)! This is great if you have an affiliate marketing presence, have clients that need Pretty Link Pro or just have friends that need it.

I'm pumped about all the activity that's been going on surrounding Pretty Link Pro and the cool features I'm working on right now. Seriously, between the fact that this the best link management software in the world, you'll get lifetime updates, there's a 100% money back guarantee on it and there's a generous affiliate program along with it — why don't you just get Pretty Link Pro today, start using it to build your brand and make some money while your at it? Sounds like a no brainer to me. ๐Ÿ™‚

Filed Under: Plugins, Pretty Link, Pretty Link Pro, Wordpress Tagged With: features, Launch, Pretty Link Pro

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