By Jeffro on March 7, 2011
PollDaddy must be doing something right as the early results from their customer survey point towards a large majority (91%) would recommend the service to others. Survey, poll, quiz, and rating users all responded that PollDaddy was easy to use.
While the comments and results point towards PollDaddy being an excellent service, it’s the negative comments or complaints that really help out a company when offering these surveys. If you have a PollDaddy account, consider taking the survey which is still ongoing via the PollDaddy dashboard.
Posted in News | Tagged polldaddy, Polls, satisfaction, survey
By Jeffro on March 5, 2011
Automattic has partnered with Federated Media Publishing who has partnered with GE as the content partner and interactive marketing agency Bebby Clark+Meyler to launch a new site on WordPress.com called EcoPressed. Similar in design and function to FoodPress, EcoPressed focuses on clean tech, eco-friendly items and more. Hand picked content from some of the top WordPress.com bloggers will be highlighted on the site along with home grown content.
EcoPressed signals a first-of-its-kind opportunity for a corporate partner to highlight hand-picked content from WordPress.com’s top users blended with Federated Media’s premium professional blog talent. It also gives independent content producers far greater exposure and the ability to join the eco conversation alongside millions of passionate readers.
The EcoPressed experience will source material from over 30 million content producers and informational resources highlighting the most relevant conversations taking place on the independent web. It will also incorporate content from GE’s ecomagination initiative, making EcoPressed the one-stop destination for consumers to get the latest news, topics and trends on innovation, sustainability and energy initiatives.
This is the second in what will likely become a series of Press sites on WordPress.com. Personally, I think what Automattic is doing with partners such as Federated media is really leveraging their audience/writers is brilliant. Instead of subscribing to hundreds or thousands of feeds of people writing great things on a specific topic, these special Press sites act as great content curators giving some no name bloggers a chance to shine. Sure, Automattic is making money through these partnerships but it’s their business and I don’t see anything wrong with what they’re doing. Do you?
Can anyone guess what topic will be next to be pressed?
Posted in News | Tagged automattic, ecopressed, foodpress, wordpress.com
By Jeffro on March 5, 2011
The other day, I received some bum news regarding the affiliate program for the book, Digging Into WordPress by Jeff Starr and Chris Coyier. Thanks to the abuse of their affiliate system with no concrete way to battle the abuse, they have decided to phase out the program for the time being. Here is the official email sent out to members:
The important details:
- We’re turning it off this Monday at Noon EST. You are of course free to remove all links as you wish.
- We don’t benefit in any way from links left up. (It’s not a ploy for us to benefit from lingering links)
- We’re sorry =( We thought long and hard about it and we think this is our best option.
Here’s the scoop:
We’ve had a ton of fraud go through the affiliate program. A bad guy can sign up for the program and buy a bunch of books from us with stolen credit cards, and earn money. It’s extremely difficult to catch, because the people with the fraudulent charge may not even notice, or not notice for months. Meanwhile we’ve already given the bad guy money. The negative effects of this being:
- We lose money
- Our PayPal account is at serious risk of closure
- We facilitate bad things happening to people
Unfortunately the software we use to handle the affiliate program just isn’t up to the task of fighting this. So to all: THANK YOU for being an affiliate. The book has been a success in no small part because of you. If we can figure out a better way to handle this, we’ll do that and open it back up. In the mean time, if you are looking for other affiliate programs to try out, check this one out:
http://codecanyon.net/wiki/referral/referral-program/
-Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr
Digging Into WordPress
http://digwp.com
That sucks but I’ll still be keeping the link to the book on the WPTavern store because it’s a great resource that takes things a step further after WordPress For Beginners.
Posted in News | Tagged affiliates, book, closure, program |
By Jeffro on March 5, 2011
Thanks to a recent upgrade to the advertising management system I use, I’m now able to create and offer coupons to advertisers. I’m working my way back into generating a consistent stream of content on the site and to get things back in gear, I’m offering a coupon code for advertisers that will save them 25% on the following ad zones, Site Header, Site Sidebar and Forum Header. After your display ad has been approved, enter the following coupon code into the coupon box, 25PERCENT as this will deduct the cost immediately. The coupon is good for any length of purchase e.g. 30,60, or 90 days. This coupon code will expire on Friday, March 11th.
Here is something to consider. The money I make at the grocery store during the week is being put away for a desperately needed new roof and the money I generate from WPTavern.com is what will keep me fed as well as pay for minimal expenses. Needless to say, I definitely have an incentive to keep things going around here.
ADVERTISER TIP: Based on experience, users are more likely to both click and spend their money if the display banner offers a coupon code to save a percentage of money.
Posted in News | Tagged ads, advertising, coupon, money
By Jeffro on March 1, 2011
Hugo Baeta who has become one of the newest members of the Automattic team has showcased his love for WordPress by getting two tattoos on his body. The first tattoo which shows the WordPress W with what seems like vines around the circle. All in all, it looks pretty good, especially the straight lines in the W.
WordPress On The Shoulder
The second tattoo is the motto of WordPress spread across the forearm. Once again, the detail is pretty good as it looks like a stencil was used. Congrats to Hugo on his new job, I just hope his feelings for WordPress are for life and not just a spur of the moment thing. Also, I wonder if the WordPress Foundation gave him permission to put the trademark onto his body? I ask that question jokingly.
Code Is Poetry Tattoo
Posted in News | Tagged automattic, fan, tattoo, wordpress |
By Jeffro on March 1, 2011
Some folks in the WordPress community were bummed when they found out that Alex King, the guy behind Crowd Favorite announced that he was going to shut down his side project, WordPress HelpCenter because it never gained the traction with developers that Alex was aiming for. This also provided Alex more of an opportunity to concentrate on CrowdFavorite.
WP Help Center Reopens March 14th
As you can see from the image above, the WordPress HelpCenter will be opening its doors again on March 14th under new management. Nathan Garza who has worked with Crowd Favorite will be the new owner of the Help Center while Alex King will be affiliated with the site by being on the board of advisers. Alex states that he won’t be involved in the day-to-day operations of the site and hopes that his experience will be useful for Nathan.
If you used the WordPress HelpCenter in the past, keep an eye out for the reopening as there is a possibility that the business will be structured differently than it’s initial offering.
Posted in News | Tagged alex king, crowdfavorite, helpcenter, wordpress
By Jeffro on February 11, 2011
WooThemes has published the 5th iteration of their comic, WooVille. This time they have taken the WordPress themeing community and transformed it into a cool comic. It took me a little while but I eventually discovered the Woo Ninja who was cleverly in disguise with his surroundings. However, as was shared earlier in the week, this particular part of the image is my favorite and the most humorous.
Guess Who
It shouldn’t take anyone more than 10 seconds to realize who that person is although the illustration certainly shows a different captain biceps that I know. Also of humorous note is that Matt Mullenweg is up in the air in a helicopter overseeing all of the theme companies. I wonder if that chopper is loaded with lawyer cannons for anyone that wants to go the opposite way of the GPL. I’m joking of course but it’s funny to think of lawyers being shot out of a cannon anyways.
What’s your favorite part of the comic?
Posted in News | Tagged comic, gpl, marketing, woothemes |
By Jeffro on February 8, 2011
While there has been a drought in WordPress Weekly, there is a brand new WordPress centric podcast to take a listen to called daWP show. The podcast is in it’s beginning stages with two episodes completed with another on the way. The show is produced by Josh Feck and covers specific topics while at the same time, mentioning a bunch of cool links he’s discovered. So far, Josh has been the man at the helm and although he’s produced the show by himself, it doesn’t come across as sounding monotone. The WordPress community could always use a few more podcasts dedicated to the software as usually, there is a ton of stuff going on that needs to be covered.
You can follow the show through iTunes via the following link.
Posted in News | Tagged podcast, shows, wordpress |
By Jeffro on November 16, 2010
Andrew Nacin who many in the WordPress community know as a house hold name by now has published a retrospective post into his first year heavily involved with WordPress development since his first patch was submitted. One of the most encouraging lines within hist post is the following:
I’ve learned what it means to have an opinion without having a personal agenda.
Not only does Andrew tell us what it’s been like for him to be a part of the WordPress development community the past twelve months, but we also find out that he is writing the core contributor handbook which may be ready by the end of this year. Also for those that don’t know, Andrew Nacin is the technical editor of the new book, Professional WordPress Plugin Development which I talked about with Brad Williams during episode 105 of WordPress Weekly. Andrew is one of those people who constantly makes me wonder, how does he do that? Personally, I think he has some robotic DNA within him but who knows.
The bottom line is, thanks to his incredible amount of time devoted to the project, WordPress is better because of it, minus the capital P dangit filter. From me to you, thank you Andrew for your commitment to the project and helping my install of WordPress to perform better.
Posted in News | Tagged contributor, core, developer, wordpress
By Jeffro on November 5, 2010
If you use the third-party commenting system Disqus, you’ll want to read the following post by Zemalf.com. In the post, Antti explains that although you can mark comments as spam which are then removed from view in Disqus, the comments are not removed from the WordPress database. Therefor, even though the comments are not in plain view, they show up within the source code HTML that renders the page by Disqus.
Spot a comment from “normal” comments that was spam, removed from Disqus, but still in WordPress database etc… Not a problem, Disqus wouldn’t show a comment removed from its own system and only existing in WP database, would it? YOU BET YOUR SORRY ASS IT WOULD!
Within the comments of the post, Daniel Ha who represents Disqus confirmed the behaviour and noted that it would probably be fixed in the next release of the plugin.
1. When you mark a comment as spam using Disqus, that information is not synced back to WordPress just as you pointed out. At one point, Disqus did do this action, but it proved to be unreliable performance-sensitive.
For example, if you’ve marked a two-year old comment as “deleted”, Disqus would need to constantly scan your 2+ years worth of comments to see which one has to have a synchronized state. It’s no problem for us, but it could prove very problematic for your own database. We’ve since nixed that functionality because of the issues that it caused. We’re currently looking at ways to do this again but in a way that won’t be otherwise damaging.
2. The content in your HTML is retrieved from your WP database. Because your local database still has the comment, it will still be rendered onto the page. I don’t think the current solution is the best, and I’m positive we’ll have a better one soon.
Posted in News | Tagged comments, disqus, spam |
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PollDaddy must be doing something right as the early results from their customer survey point towards a large majority (91%) would recommend the service to others. Survey, poll, quiz, and rating users all responded that PollDaddy was easy to use. 
WordPress, Disqus, And Spam Comments
By Jeffro on November 5, 2010
Within the comments of the post, Daniel Ha who represents Disqus confirmed the behaviour and noted that it would probably be fixed in the next release of the plugin.
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