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Affiliate Royale is Live

by Blair Williams · Aug 23, 2011

Guess 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.

Where Did Pretty Link Cloaking and the Pretty Bar Go?

by Blair Williams · Sep 24, 2010

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?

WordPress.TV: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin

by Blair Williams · May 21, 2010

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

Anyone Can Use WordPress Hooks

by Blair Williams · May 18, 2010

Hooks are one of the greatest features of WordPress — yet they are unseen by most WordPress users.

Okay, I'll admit, hooks are only available in the code — but I believe they're simple enough to be used by anyone technical enough to use a text editor and FTP.

WordPress has a really good Intro to Hooks and there are a couple of WordPress Hook databases out on the web too … but these might be a bit technical and overwhelming for many users wanting to customize their blogs.

This is my basic overview of what hooks are for and how they can make your life easier as a WordPress user. [Read more…] about Anyone Can Use WordPress Hooks

Customizing Pretty Link Options – Part 1

by Blair Williams · May 22, 2009

This is the second tutorial on how to use the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. In this one I go over the most customizable link option — the PrettyBar. Next week I'll cover some more of the Link Options, what they are, how they work and how they can help you extend your online presence.

If you'd like to see me do a Tutorial on a certain topic or you have any questions or comments feel free to comment on this post.

Announcing the Pretty Link API

by Blair Williams · May 14, 2009

The Pretty Link Plugin for WordPress now has an API (as of version 1.3.28) that Developers can connect with to shorten links using a user's WordPress website.

Are you a WordPress plugin developer? Or are you developing a killer app for Twitter, Facebook or other Social media? It is now possible to give your users the ability to create short links with their own domain name (in addition to offering them with the options of Bit.ly, TinyURL, etc).

There are 2 ways that the Pretty Link API can be accessed:

As a Local WordPress API — there are a set of Pretty Link functions that have been defined and are usable by mock api, WordPress plugin developers.
As a Remote XML-RPC API — there are a set of XML-RPC based functions that can be used by any other application that is Internet enabled. It doesn't matter what language your App is written in, if it is Internet-based or a client app running on the desktop — you can now offer your users the ability to create short links on their own domains.

For more details about the Pretty Link API, please visit the Pretty Link API page here:

https://blairwilliams.com/pretty-link/api/

How to Get Started Using Pretty Link

by Blair Williams · May 12, 2009

UPDATE: This video is out of date — please watch my new Pretty Link Intro Video
I've had a ton of requests to put some tutorials up on the site — here's the first one. I'm planning on releasing 1 of these every week for a while. This one will show you how to install Pretty Link, create your first links and post them to Twitter.

Next week I'll go a little more in depth about the awesome options you can set for your links in Pretty Link. Seriously, Pretty Link has many options that will help you build your SEO efforts, mask your links and create buzz for your brand.

Feel free to leave a comment about this video, if you have any questions about pretty link in general or if there's a Tutorial you'd like to see. Later.