Well….guess what? Another WordCamp…surprise surprise! This time, I’ll be at WordCamp Savannah on August 21st and 22nd, and I’m excited to be there as I have never been to Georgia before. I am a little worried about the humidity, but I’m sure I’ll survive. This is actually a 3 day event. Friday the 20th will be a Pre-WordCamp Workshop day where you can get your own domain and site setup and get familiarized with WordPress before the actual event. This is a great idea for those who want to start a site but aren’t just quite sure how. Lisa-Sabin Wilson will be heading up this workshop, so anyone attending will be in good hands. 9seeds is sponsoring this event and I was asked to do a short version of my PHP/CSS for Beginners presentation as well as hang out at the Genius Bar on Sunday the 22nd. So I’ll do a quick version of how to understand and modify PHP and CSS for beginners and then answer the flood of questions that will probably come into the Genius Bar on [...]
Since Shayne has spent so much time helping people out in the WP e-Commerce user’s forum, it’s no surprise that we receive a steady stream of requests for people looking to enhance their online store. One of the requests we get the most is from people who would like to pay affiliates to drive traffic to their site. With no real solution available, we did what any enthusiastic development team would do; we built it! Introducing the Affiliate Plugin for WP e-Commerce The Affiliate Plugin makes it simple to sign up and manage affiliates for your online store. You can easily set the payout amount (flat rate or % of sale) per affiliate, add custom banners and text links with unique tracking codes, view stats and more. We didn’t forget about your affiliates. They will have the ability to get their unique tracking links and see their traffic and earnings stats. Screenshots (click to enlarge) The Affiliate plugin is available now directly from getshopped.org. If you need assistance with the plugin or have a feature request, please let us know!
With the licensing controversy between WordPress and the Thesis theme, there are a lot of users having to rethink what theme they want to use for their WordPress site. Matt Mullenweg has made an open invitation to purchase a GPL compliant theme for anyone wanting to move away from Thesis. As part of the WordPress community we would like to do our part and offer to install and modify a new GPL compliant theme for half price*! What does this mean? It means….if you want rid of Thesis and want to give your site a whole new look, we’ll do the conversion for you for half price*! If you’re interested in keeping your site’s existing look and still want a conversion, then you can visit our friends at WebDevStudios where they have a sale for that running currently. So, let us know how we can help you get converted to a GPL compliant theme and we’ll happily do it for half price*. *Half price offer is good for conversions from Thesis themes only. GPL compliant theme must be provided and [...]
Last year I had the great pleasure of attending WordCamp Denver and am very excited to be heading back to Colorado for round two! But this time, WordCamp has moved up the road to Boulder, CO. This year I won’t just be attending, but we are also one of the sponsors of the event! Last year the guys at Crowd Favorite put together a great collection of speakers, and this year is no different. Have a look at the list of speakers, and then go register to attend! There are less than 100 tickets left, so get on it! I also wanted to send a big ‘ol THANKS to the guys at Crowd Favorite for moving the event from February to July. As beautiful as it was to see everything covered in snow, I’m sure the place will be just as beautiful without the snow. See you there!
Where exactly has this month gone? I looked up and realized that in just over a week, I’ll be hopping a plane to attend WordCamp Chicago! I’m really excited! The last time I was in Chicago was December of last year for a different conference and on the day I left it was a whopping 4 degrees outside. The 10 day forecast says that it’ll be partly cloudy with a high of 75! Heck Yeah! Moderate weather aside, WordCamp Chicago looks like it’s going to be a great one. They have an outstanding list of speakers lined up! I see that there are less than 100 tickets left, so you should go and register now! From what I hear the WordPress community in Chicago is top notch. I’m looking forward to meeting a ton of new people and saying hello to some old friends! If you see me walking around, definitely come and say hello! You can also hit me up for a sticker or two.
So just when you thought you had us figured out, we switch things around. 9seeds at a non-WordCamp event? Yes, it’s true! Shayne will be presenting at the CMS Expo in Chicago on Tuesday, May 4th. This is the first year that WordPress has a track at CMS Expo and we’re very excited to be a part of it. Shayne will be presenting “WP Ecommerce and other must-have WordPress plugins”. This presentation will cover (as the title eludes to) must-have plugins for your WordPress site. He will talk about must-have plugins as well as give a live demonstration of each, followed by a Q&A session. If you’re in the area, you should definitely grab a ticket and plan on learning a lot! There will also be tracks for Drupal, Joomla and Plone platforms as well, so no matter what CMS you’re using, there will be something there for everyone. You can follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #cmsexpo
Have we told you how much we love WordCamp events? I think we might have, and here we are again…WordCamp San Francisco this weekend! This WordCamp is proving to be a very cool and very large event and we are very excited to be attending. We are also excited about this event since the whole 9seeds crew will be attending. Living in different cities we don’t see each other as often as we’d like, so times like this are very cool for us to get to hang out! So, if you’re attending make sure and find one of us (or all of us) and say hello and we might just have some free stickers to give away. Shayne will be at the Genius Bar on Saturday so if you have WordPress questions, make sure and stop by…it’s a great place to get free, useful information about your WordPress site. The event will take place on Saturday, May 1st at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. There will also be an unconference meetup for developer’s on Sunday, May 2nd [...]
It’s no secret, we are big fans of WordCamp events. We are even bigger fans of the people that pour their heart in to making the events happen. When we found out Brandon Dove was putting together WordCamp Orange County, we knew we wanted to be a part of it any way we could. So it was a no-brainer for us to sponsor the event. We are also thrilled to have the opportunity to help out as presenters. John Hawkins will be giving a presentation on beginning plugin development. If you are interested in writing your own plugins but aren’t sure exactly where to start, be sure to catch John’s presentation on Saturday. We’ve heard that there may be an informal Genius Bar where attendees can get some one-on-one assistance with their WordPress site. John and Todd will both be hanging around all day Saturday and will be happy to answer questions. We’ll also have a bunch of 9seeds stickers, so track us down and ask for one. We know first hand how much work goes in to putting on [...]
Step right up, don’t be shy. We’ve got fresh new stickers and we want to share them with you! Here’s what they look like: Nice, huh? If you want one, all you have to do is head over to we have stickers page and tell us where to send it. For bonus points, email us a pic of where you stick your sticker.
It’s always exciting to see a project you work on take flight. Such is the case with a new plugin in the WordPress repository called ComparePress. We recently had the opportunity to work with Andy Symonds from The Blog House. He was in the final stages of development on his plugin and was looking for some colaboration to finish things up. While he did the lion’s share of the work, we were happy to step in and offer some assistance along the way. Andy explains the plugin best: “ComparePress allows any WordPress based site or blog to replace their existing text based ads with an affiliate marketing based, SEO, price comparison system which adds 1000s of intelligent price comparison pages to their blog. By having this detailed and relevant comparison data, users will stay on the site for longer and the system also gives the site owners the potential to earn a greater share of the true worth of their traffic.” The plugin was launched with 1 module that offers content for UK based sales. They are working on additional [...]
