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Comment on BuddyBoss launches gallery of 100+ sites built using BuddyPress by Sageshark

Sageshark — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:44:37 +0000

After searching a lot for quality sites that are built using buddypress I stumbled here. I was searching for some inspiration and wanted to see how other people have made use of buddypress to build a community site. Your compilation helped me get the full data at single place. Thanks for these efforts.

Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by Piet

Piet — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:32:40 +0000

Like you and several of the commenters I also did my quest for the ultimate new feed-reader and after testing several others I ended up with Fever.

Yes, it’s a bit more work setting it up and no, there is no demo available, although the screenshots speak for themselves.

I like having it all on my own domain and I have made a Fever app on my Dashboard with Fluidapp, so I can read my feeds straight on my desktop.

Comment on The true value of a WordPress theme: Hermes Themes and a $200 price tag by WPHub

WPHub — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:51:17 +0000

To all those squawking about the price of $200, sure that is a bit out of the normal range for a wp theme. You must keep in mind for the 75% of websites in the world that are not using wp, $200 is nothing. I know lots of website builders that still charge $5k for base custom website…ouch!

Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by Hikari

Hikari — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:22:24 +0000

Very nice post, thanks for sharing your searches!

Currently I’m using FeedDemon synched with GReader too. It’s interesting how GReader API wasn’t official (which means they could block it anytime) and still every tool used it.

Sadly, I feel RSS as a whole is going down, even though everybody says the opposite. Trackback was never used, and Pingback also didn’t succeed. With Orkut, Facebook and other closed proprietary junks like those, ppl prefere to use them other then have their own blogsphere websites in WordPress.com or blogbosta.

Well, FeedDemon will also die, its author is tired of it after a decade and it seems to be needing a hardworking 2.0 remake to move on. He will release an ending version, that will be free and have all pro features, but will lose synch.

I still don’t know if I stay with it without synch or move to Feedly or NewsBlur. NewsBlur seems to have a better UI, but it automatically marks articles as read after 2 weeks, which forces us to use it too frequently. GReader’s 4 weeks mark is already too short for me! and I don’t like this kind of marketing strategy to force users to keep in touch.

Feedly seems to be – or at least aims to be – the new integration-synch choice. But its UI is strange and I saw no info about auto-read-marks.

For now I’m cleaning my starred to-read articles, then I’ll better test both and choose.

Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by Brian Chamberlain

Brian Chamberlain — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:52:24 +0000

I was happy to find this article and its comments. I will be trying Feedly based on this and a recent article I just read that reports that Feedly gained 3+ million ex-Google Reader users in two weeks.

Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by esvee

esvee — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:18:58 +0000

I examined a some of the services you mention in you rpost. I finally opted for Old Reader on Chrome skinned to look like Google Reader using Stylebot - esvee

Comment on The true value of a WordPress theme: Hermes Themes and a $200 price tag by Gil Harris

Gil Harris — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:53:49 +0000

I have been building websites for a number of years but recently discovered via Yahoo Small Business an integration feature with WordPress. I had no idea the power that WordPress possessed and now I am addicted. This is a great article. I think the price is right especially for the hotel industry. My site is in the very beginning stages but I would like to eventually have it evolve into a full scale quoting system for my clients and not just a data collection center as most other agents use. I look forward to building something dynamic with the power of WordPress and I love the fact that you can change so easily between themes and the plugins (although I haven’t incorporated any yet) look to make this a very simple and easy to change solution for all lines of business. Thanks for the article!

Comment on How to find WordPress themes, quickly and easily by Micky

Micky — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:30:21 +0000

My tech guru friend swears by the “Thesis” theme, so that’s what I’ve adopted. I’ve found the 1.x.x version is a lot more user friendly than the 2.x versions out now though.

Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by The WordPress Weekend Roundup - WP Daily

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Comment on My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader by Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:37:36 +0000

I’ve tried some of the ones you mentioned in this article but I went with NetVibes. I actually didn’t have a problem registering with them. It did take a little time to get use to their interface but I like it and use it now as my RSS reader. I tried Feedly but it was too confusing and I felt lost so I gave up on it.