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9seeds at CMS Expo

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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

9seeds at WordCamp San Francisco

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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 at Pier 38. You can get more information about this at the WordCamp San Francisco site.

If you can’t make it, then follow along on Twitter with hashtag #wcsf

See you there!

9seeds at WordCamp Orange County

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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 a WordCamp. Congratulations to Brandon and his team. We’re excited to be part of what is going to be a great event!

Orange County WordCamp is taking place on April 24th at UC Irvine. Tickets are $40 and get you a T-shirt, lunch and a full day of WordPress fun. Don’t miss it, buy your tickets now!

Get your 9seeds sticker

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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.

New WordPress plugin: ComparePress

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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 modules and are hoping to have US based solutions in place real soon.

Congratulations on your plugin, Andy! We wish you all the best!