What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Allow javascript to be embedded into greeting messages.

This means that you will now be able to do fun things like add the +1 button into your greeting message or add the Like button into your greeting message. For example:

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 1.1.x:

• 6.3.3: Added lt_LT translation by Nata Strazda.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the WordPress support forum.

This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. Thanks K. Gudinavicius of SEC Consult for bringing this to our attention. Version 3.1.4 also incorporates several other security fixes and hardening measures thanks to the work of WordPress developers Alexander Concha and Jon Cave of our security team. Consult the change log for more details. [Source]

Go upgrade now!

If you haven’t heard of this Nexus Tax, in short, the new tax bill will allow your state to tax earnings from internet affiliate sales. This is causing outrage because it is causing affiliate networks to terminate affiliate contracts for all affiliate marketers that are living within that state. This means that all internet affiliate earnings can possibly disappear if these affiliate networks move out of the state.

Which States Have Been Affected

• New York
• North Carolina
• Rhode Island
• Colorado

Who’s Next?

California is on the verge of implementing this tax:

Governor Brown of California has announced he has secured enough votes to pass his budget, including the Affiliate Nexus Tax and 2 related nexus bills: AB 153, AB 155 and SB 234. The law will go into effect immediately upon signing, and he must sign before July 1st, 2011.[Source]

To confirm that this is a bad idea, and Amazon is not bluffing, I just received this email from Amazon today stating:

Hello,
For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers – including but not limited to those referred by California-based marketing affiliates like you – even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result, we will terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective. We will send a follow-up notice to you confirming the termination date if the California law is enacted. In the event that the California law does not become effective before September 30, 2011, we withdraw this notice. As of the termination date, California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before the termination date will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect their ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. We are also working on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

EDIT: Yup, it’s official, we are doomed

I just received this email from Amazon.

Hello,
Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011. Those California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned before today will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect your ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. As mentioned before, we are continuing to work on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

The level of stupidity of California never seems to amaze me. I will be looking forward to moving my business OUTSIDE of California, so they don’t get a dime of my money.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Fixed “Class ‘WPMinifyCommon’ not found” errors that some are seeing.
2. Added pretty URL for minified files so now you can stick it on a CDN.
3. Organized options page.

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 1.1.x:

• 1.1.3: Added it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 1.1.7: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 1.1.7: Added uk translation by Jurko Chervony.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin has the following enhancements.

1. Fixed broken 404 link in documentation.
2. Added ability to hide widget output if no ads are filled in the zone.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What is SEO Smart Links Business?

Briefly, SEO Smart Links Business aims to help WordPress blog owners improve their blog’s onsite SEO by automatically interlinking posts to each other. The goal of this plugin is to alleviate the pain of having to manage internal content linking. The plugin also comes with a bunch of other tools that you may need to help improve your onsite SEO. If you want to know more, I think it’s best if I let you read the detailed list of features on the official product page.

What I Like About It?

Dead simple for anybody to use. All you have to do to link to another post on your site is write the full name of the other post, save, and wha-bam, your link is generated.

Powerful enough for SEO educated individuals. If the custom keywords feature was missing, I would’ve thrown this plugin back in Vladimir’s face and would’ve told him to make it better. I’m glad that he still continues to impress me. This feature is crucial for when you just want to link to your target content using a particular phrase (not the post title of the target content). I use this type of linking a lot on my fitness blog where I would only want to link to a particular post using the phrase “bicep workout” instead of “30 Minute Bicep Workout”.

Limits & Exclusions. I love the limits feature so that way you won’t end up with too many links in one post (making your article look spammy). Also, it would be lame is exclusions didn’t exist. I would hate to link to my about page every time I type the word “about” in a post.

Nofollow & Nofollow white list. Automatically nofollow all external links. Also “nofollow whitelist”, I’ve never seen this feature anywhere else before. Pretty awesome stuff.

Caching. This feature is absolute crucial for large sites.

Redirection Support. This is a nice little redirection tool that you can use to help cloak affiliate links if needed.

The pricing is fair. The Business version of the plugin is really designed for people with extremely large sites, for which the extra caching is crucial for smooth operation.

One Thing I’m Still Iffy About

How the plugin works is that it automatically parses your post for key phrases and then dynamically turn the right key phrases into links (cache it if necessary) and then deliver the linkified content to the user. From what I understand, the original post does not get modified at all. Maybe I am just a control freak, but I am a bit uncomfortable with key phrases being dynamically linkified on my posts. This is because if I were to disable the plugin, all of the links I was counting on to be there will suddenly disappear. I would love it if Vladimir added a feature that automatically linkify your posts as you write them (or even on save). That way automatically generated links will be saved along with the content and the link will persist even if the plugin is disabled.

Verditct

Try out the free version! If you like it and your feel that the premium version has features that will benefit you then make the purchase. Do you use any version of SEO Smart Links? I would love it if you can share your insights and experiences in the comments below.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added option to minify HTML.
2. Added ability to NOT minify when “wp-minify-off=1″ is in URL.
3. Added option to report errors through FirePHP.
4. Added “wp_minify_js_url” filter
5. Added “wp_minify_css_url” filter
6. Added “wp_minify_content” filter
7. Enhanced “JavaScript files to include” feature.
8. Enhanced “CSS files to include” feature.
9. Fixed persistent SSL issue (Thanks belg4mit!)
10. Fixed bbpress issue (Thanks foobar!)

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added ability to auto-insert to the first post on homepage.
2. Another attempt to fix the white screen of death for some users.
3. Externalized greeting messages.
4. Cleaned up deprecated WP functions.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

Q1: WP Greet Box does not show up. WTF?

A1: Follow this troubleshooting guide. It’s most-likely an issue with your theme not properly calling wp_footer() like any good theme should do.

Q2: WP Greet Box doesn’t work with [insert your theme name here] theme

A2: Refer to answer 1.

Q3: The greeting message is showing up in Google search results. How can I get rid of this?

A3: Use manual insertion method.

Q4: WP Greet Box doesn’t display right in my theme. It’s terrible looking. What can I do?

A4: Learn CSS and modify wp-greet-box/css/wp-greet-box.css to make it fit your theme.

Q5: Can I place the greeting message anywhere other than the post, page, or homepage?

A5: Yes, use manual insertion method

There you have it. From now on, when I see another post in the support forum asking about any of these questions. I’m going just delete that question. Please don’t blame me if you didn’t RTFM .

What a new visitor sees:

What a loyal reader sees:

Notice the “TweakFit Gear” widget in the sidebar.

What a visitor sees if they’ve clicked through from Facebook:

Notice the Facebook widget in the sidebar.

What a visitor sees if they’ve clicked through from Twitter:

Notice the Twitter widget in the sidebar.

What a visitor sees if they’ve visited a post that promotes a product from Bodybuilding.com:

Notice the Bodybuilding advertisement in the sidebar.

What a visitor sees if they’ve visited a post that promotes P90X or Insanity:

Notice the P90X/Insanity advertisements in the sidebar.

You should pretty much have an idea of what this plugin does now. Enabling behavioral targeting on your blog provides endless possibilities for increasing profit.

Features

• Works with any cache plugin
• Super easy to setup (see widget control screenshot below)
  

Currently, you can only hide/show widgets, but I plan to add more features in future versions. Other custom solutions can be done through the BTBuckets dashboard.

Documentation

• readme.txt

Download

• Download via Official WordPess Plugin Directory
• Checkout via SVN

Installation

• Create a free BTBuckets account.
• Upload the plugin to your plugins folder: ‘wp-content/plugins/’
• Activate the ‘WP BTBuckets’ plugin from the plugins admin panel.
• Go to Settings -> WP BTBuckets and enter your BTBuckets API key.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, ask for support?

Please post any support requests in the appropriate plugin support forum. All support requests on this comment form will not be responded to.

Like the plugin?

If you are impressed with the plugin and would like to give back, here are some ways you can support this plugin:

• Rate this plugin 5 stars in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
• Buy me a cup of coffee or two.
• Spread the word about my plugin by writing about it on your blog, tweeting, digging, stumbling, etc.
• Help translate this plugin.

Donations (Thank you!)

All donors giving $75 or more will automatically get a do-follow link on this page for 180 days! It’s my way of saying, “Thank you for your generous support.” (need more reasons to donate?)

Tools Needed

• Firefox browser.
• Firebug add-on.
• FirePHP add-on.

Troubleshooting Steps

1. Enable “Show minify errors through FirePHP” in WP Minify settings.
2. Enable Firebug
   
3. Enable FirePHP
   
4. Load the page that has the broken minify call.
   
5. Expand the broken minify call and then view error message.
   
6. Exclude this file in WP Minify options.

Didn’t work?

Check out the plugin forum to see if others have ran into and solved the same problem you are having.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added SSL option to force http -> https on secured pages.
2. Updated common.php and some other maintenance.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

2. How do you put back into the WordPress community?
I write plugins and provide them for free.

3. How are you other developers making money from your free plugins/themes?
I am making money from advertisement revenue from traffic generated by my plugins.

4. Do people appreciate you for what you do or just expect you to do it?
Generally people appreciate me, but I’ve come across a few people people who flat out expected me to troubleshoot their site and when I didn’t have time for it, they got mad and said that I am a terrible person.

It would be interesting to hear some perspectives from fellow plugin/theme developers. Please share in the comments section!

What’s new this release?

That’s right 6.0.0!! This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Re-architected the plugin to have a smaller footprint for visitors.
2. Added DZone (Thank you Matthew Schmidt).
3. Added UI on post/page edit form to exclude greet box from showing up on current post/page
4. Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
5. Fixed translation strings and updated .pot file.
6. Fixed broken CSS when both rounded corners and drop shadow options are unchecked.

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 6.0.x:

• 6.0.1: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 6.0.7: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 6.0.8: Updated da_DK translation by Georg S.
• 6.0.9: Updated pt_BR translation by Isaac Ribeiro.

Please help me test this release and post bugs in the support forum!

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

Copy/Paste

Copy and paste the following code into your theme’s functions.php:

function inject_ad_text_after_n_chars($content) {
  // only do this if post is longer than 1000 characters
  $enable_length = 1000;
  // insert after the first </p> after 500 characters
  $after_character = 500;
  if (is_single() && strlen($content) > $enable_length) {
    $before_content = substr($content, 0, $after_character);
    $after_content = substr($content, $after_character);
    $after_content = explode('</p>', $after_content);
    $text = '
      <!-- PUT YOUR AD HERE -->
    ';
    array_splice($after_content, 1, 0, $text);
    $after_content = implode('</p>', $after_content);
    return $before_content . $after_content;
  }
  else {
    return $content;
  }
}
add_filter('the_content', 'inject_ad_text_after_n_chars');

Modify

• Make sure to replace “PUT YOUR AD HERE” with your advertisement code.
• $enable_length: Your ad will only be inserted if the post length exceeds this value.
• $after_character: Your ad will be inserted after the first </p> after this value.

That’s it! Enjoy!

I believe that Google is doing the right thing here. I also believe that top sites that show up on search results pages shouldn’t be overly slow (else it’ll ruin my search experience).

WP-Minify and WP Super Cache are the two easiest things you can implement on your WordPress blog to give you site a huge speed boost. You should definitely take an hour out of your day to install these two plugins to make sure Google won’t de-rank you due to your site speed.

Also make sure to spread the word to your friends and followers about this!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added ability to de-dupe sources
2. Added ability to manually specify location of minified JS and CSS files.
3. Fixed XHTML compliance bugs
4. Cleaned empty lines in HTML output

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added Designerfix and Web Design News by Dale Crum.
2. Added be_BY translation by Marcis G..
3. Fixed Google Buzz icon file name typo.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added the following advanced options:
   • Minification on external files
   • Ability to place JavaScript in footer
   • Extra arguments for Minify engine
2. Removed wp_path option (Thanks Jan Seidl!)
3. Fixed Output Buffer conflicts with other plugins that use output buffering such as All-in-One SEO and Anarchy Media Player.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin has the following enhancements.

1. Upgraded to asynchronous Buy Sell Ads code.
2. Changed integration method, now you only need to specify yout site key!
3. Added ability to auto insert into posts/pages.
4. Changed widget integration.
5. Disabled Anti-AdBlock for now as this interferes with BSA statistics.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.