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Wordpress Premium Developer and Author Piracy My Thoughts
As paid WordPress solutions like Themes, Plugins and eBooks rise in popularity so does that act of piracy with people downloading illegal copies of developers and authors content for free. Mostly all the popular paid wordpress premium products on the market today have been made freely available through the mediums of BitTorrent, eMule along with Websites which link to uploading sites like rapidshare, uploading etc. Of course this is a problem many larger industries Music, Movies etc have faced for years now so how can it be best combated by wordpress developers without making the mistakes other industries have and still continue to make each day where piracy is concerned.
Limit Wordpress Posts Text Length Without The Use Of Plugins
Sometimes when creating wordpress themes you might want to automatically limit the length of post text that is displayed in the main page post teaser view to make things easier for clients when writing articles. You could use a plugin like limit-post etc but I always find it much easier to contain all these type of modifications within the themes own functions.php file. This little wordpress hack will allow you to limit the displayed post text by a defined number of words on your blogs home page.
WooThemes Launch WooFramework Version 2.0
WooThemes who could be considered the leading wordpress premium theme developer have announced that they are updating their wordpress WooFramework to a brand new version titled 2.0. The WooFramework is the structure upon which all WooTheme wordpress themes are built upon and where all your lovely WooThemes option are controlled from.
WPQuestions A Paid Problem Solving Site For Wordpress
WPQuestions a Paid Problem solving site for wordpress launched this week and is a project by Darren Hoyt, Adii co-founder of WooThemes is also sponsoring and helping to market the site for the first few months. The function of WPQuestions is that members pay to ask wordpress related urgent emergency or help related questions and other members get paid for answering those questions.
Display 3 in 1 Business – Portfolio An Absolutely Gorgeous Wordpress Theme
Display is a stunning Wordpress Business – Portfolio Theme. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress. Display is an absolutely gorgeous wordpress theme that will wow your visitors and most probably yourself too.
Top 25+ Wordpress Anti Spam Protection And Management Plugins
After the post I made a few days back about a “Cool Little Wordpress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers” it got me thinking as to what plugins aside from Askimet are available for wordpress that help control spam. Some research later what I ended up putting together is a comprehensive list of 25 wordpress plugins that are aimed at helping deter and manage spam on your wordpress blog.
ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For Wordpress Themes
If you have ever tried creating a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver, you know it’s not very easy and the process is rather repetitive. Even with a localhost WordPress installation with WAMP or similar, you are continually editing, saving, previewing, re-editing, etc. ThemeDreamer removes a lot of the hassles out of creating WordPress themes by integrating with Dreamweaver’s design view. ThemeDreamer takes the assortment of WordPress PHP files such as index.php, header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php, etc. and combines them to allow WYSIWYG editing in design view.
A Cool Little Wordpress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers
If you own a Wordpress powered website you will most surely have Askimet enabled to help detect and easily manage spammers from posting comments. Askimet is a great plugin that has worked pretty successfully for me on all wordrpess sites that I own or administer. This little wordpress comment hack adds another layer of protection though by looking for the HTTP referrer (the page where the request comes from) and automatically blocks the comment if the referrer is incorrect or not defined.
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- @wptaverncan you imagine dealing with every customer support request by email each day \o/ at least with a forum old answers solve issues
- @wptavern it's a very competitive marketplace and if you enter it without a great support network your going to have headaches in my opinion
- @wptavern cool see it now :) their support setup looks ropey to me? fill in a form seriously? at bare mimum i would expect forum support.
- @wptavern do you know if they are following the GPL approach on their themes like others have done, Couldn't see any info on their site.
- @wptavern didn't notice that. strange i would just have used ejunkie for everything, maybe they don't like the ejunkie aff settings.
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