2012-05-04T19:40:55-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com John Turner john@seedprod.com seedprodhttp://feedburner.google.com 2012-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/constant-contact-integration-feature-spotlight <p> <a href="http://marketplace.constantcontact.com/Listing/applications/seedprod/PML-15514?hp_ref=appsNew"><img src="/images/constant-contact-partner-program.jpeg"></a> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.constantcontact.com">Constant Contact</a> helps small businesses, associations, and nonprofits connect with their customers, clients, and members. Constant Contact's leading email marketing, online survey, event marketing, social media, and deal tools—supported by its expert personal coaching and support—help all types of small businesses and organizations create professional-looking email newsletters and insightful online surveys and begin a dialogue with their customers</p> <p>Coming Soon Pro is proud to be <a href="/features/#feature12">integrated with Constant Contact</a>.</p> <p>It never been easier to create a coming soon under construction page for your WordPress website and use Constant Contact to collect emails. To see how view this short video.</p> <br> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nSUDbWVFYsE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 2012-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/coming-soon-pro-2.4.0-released <p>Coming Soon Pro Version 2.4.0 has been released.</p> <p>Features and/or Fixes:</p> <ul> <li>Added better MailChimp error feedback</li> <li>Fixed bug in client view that if client returned to client view url in the same session they would get a 404</li> <li>Fixed bug in client view if category used as permalink</li> </ul> <p>You should receive an automatic upgrade notification within 12hrs. or download from http://app.seedprod.com</p> 2012-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/mailchimp-integration-feature-spotlight <p> <a href="http://eepurl.com/cacGL"><img src="/images/MC_MonkeyReward_06.png"></a> </p> <p> If you have not heard of <a href="http://www.mailchimp.com">MailChimp</a> yet it's an awesome company that helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks and track your results.</p> <p>Coming Soon Pro is proud to be <a href="/features/">integrated with MailChimp</a> to make collecting emails for your website's launch easier.</p> <p>Now you can quickly collect emails while your WordPress website is under construction and have them sent directly to your MailChimp lists for future campaigns. To see how view this short video.</p> <br> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xtr_YDUfN7w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 2012-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/coming-soon-pro-2.3.1-released <p>Coming Soon Pro Version 2.3.1 has been released.</p> <p>Fixes * Fixed bug for users who had not previously set a shadow box opacity</p> <p>You should receive an automatic upgrade notification within 12hrs. or download from http://app.seedprod.com</p> 2012-04-10T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/coming-soon-pro-2.3.0-released <p>Coming Soon Pro Version 2.3.0 has been released.</p> <p>Features and Fixes</p> <ul> <li>Added IE 7 and IE8 support for fullscreen backgrounds</li> <li>Ability to adjust opacity on the shadow box</li> <li>Ability to use larger social icons</li> <li>Fix config array setup</li> </ul> <p>You should receive an automatic upgrade notification within 12hrs. or download from http://app.seedprod.com</p> 2012-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/coming-soon-pro-2.2.1-released <p>Coming Soon Pro Version 2.2.1 has been released.</p> <p>Fixes:</p> <ul> <li>Fixed Database Counter Notification Bug</li> <li>Fixed Constant Contact bug that only allow an email to be subscribe to one list.</li> </ul> <p>You should receive an automatic upgrade notification within 12hrs. or download from http://app.seedprod.com</p> 2012-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/coming-soon-pro-2.2.0-released <p>Coming Soon Pro Version 2.2.0 has been released.</p> <p>New Features:</p> <ul> <li>Added Admin Bar Notifications</li> <li>Added a Client View URL which allows you to bypass the coming soon page.</li> </ul> <p>Fixes:</p> <ul> <li>Fixed Aweber subscribe bug</li> <li>Added missing Gravity Forms js form multi-page forms.</li> <li>Fixed all php notices</li> </ul> <p>You should receive an automatic upgrade notification soon or download from http://app.seedprod.com</p> 2012-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/introducing-coming-soon-pro-version-2 <p>I am excited to announce SeedProd&#8217;s <a href='/pricing/'>Coming Soon Pro Version 2</a>. After the initial launch of the Coming Soon Pro WordPress plugin back in September of 2011, I have received tons of positive feedback and feature request.</p> <p>I started rebuilding the plugin at the 1st of the year and incorporated some of the features that had been suggested along with some ideas I had. Some of the new features include:</p> <ul> <li>A reworked settings interface.</li> <li>More control over the look and feel of the coming soon template.</li> <li>A Maintenance Mode</li> <li>More 3rd party Email Marketing provider integrations.</li> <li>Gravity Forms Integrations</li> <li>Import/Export Settings</li> <li>Plus tons more&#8230;</li> </ul> <p>Check out a complete list of <a href='/features/'>features</a>. If you currently own Version 1 of SeedProd Coming Soon Pro, be on the look out for an email this week on how to upgrade. Since this was a complete rewrite of the plugin some feature in Version 1 have been revamped in Version 2 and an auto upgrade could break your site.</p> <p>Please feel free to leave any feedback in the comments.</p> 2011-11-15T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.seedprod.com/dynamically-resize-wordpress-images-on-the-fly <p>Creating multiple image sizes in WordPress is quite easy when the image is attached to a post or page. Theme.fm has an excellent <a href="http://theme.fm/2011/08/images-image-sizes-and-post-thumbnails-in-wordpress-1385/">write up</a> on how to do this with the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size">add_image_size</a> function. The problem with this method is that it creates a lot of bloat because for every image uploaded it's sized to this new size even if you're not going to use it. Also getting the different available sizes from just a url is a pain.</p> <p>To side step this issue Theme and Plugin developers have resorted to using scripts like <a href="http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/">TimThumb</a> , which recently have a <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2011/08/02/vulnerability-found-in-timthumb/">major vulnerability</a> discovered. Another script that can generate images on the fly is called <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15311">vt_resized</a>. This script is nice because it uses native WordPress functions to generate the new image. The only is issue is that it does not support WordPress Multisite. Here's a modified version of the script with crude multisite support.</p> <p> If you find a bug let me know. Hopefully WordPress will provide a similar function in the WP core in the future.</p> <p> On <a href="https://gist.github.com/1367237">Github</a> </p> <script src="https://gist.github.com/1367237.js"> </script> 2011-07-06T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.seedprod.com/wordpress-coming-soon-page-plugin <p><strong>Updated - Sept 14 2011</strong> <a href="http://seedprod.com/product/coming-soon-pro-plugin/">Pro Version</a> now available with MailChimp Integration, Mobile Support and more.</p> I released a WordPress plugin a couple of weeks ago called the "<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-coming-soon-page/">Ultimate Coming Soon Page</a>" plugin. My hopes with this plugin was to create an easy way for people to add a great looking coming soon page to their WordPress site as they built it out and to collect emails form their visitor. So far I've received excellent feedback from the user of it. I plan to release a pro version of the plugin in the next few weeks to be able to provide better features and support. If there's a feature you'd like to see in this plugin please leave feedback below.