By Ryan Imel on July 3, 2011
Every now and then holidays happen, and when they do folks in the commercial WordPress community like to create promotional discounts for their wears. As we are wont to do, we’ve carefully collected every weekend deal we’ve seen here in this post.
It’s only Independence Day in the USA, but you can still celebrate these discounts wherever you might be.
iThemes is offering a 30% discount on all of their products through July 4th, 2011. The sale includes the DisplayBuddy Suite, the PluginBuddy Developer Suite, and their themes. WebDesign.com products are also included, which includes their Web Designer’s Toolkit too.
Use the coupon code “Sparkle2011″ at checkout.
Themify is running a 30% off deal for everything on their site. Just use the code “nationalday”
The folks at 8BIT are also running a 25% discount on all four of their themes. That’s Standard, Pro Photo, Live Theme, and their latest DevTheme.
CyberChimps has a discount as well. This one’s a bit more involved: $5 off one theme, $15 off a bundle of two themes, and $30 off three themes.
Any other special discounts?
Did we miss anything? Drop them in the comments. Heck, let us know if you use any of these promos too. Do they get you to buy things? Do they work?
Posted in featured, News | Tagged Plugins, Themes |
By Ryan Imel on July 2, 2011
Today’s Daily Plugin is for more fun than anything else, particularly if you’ve used WordPress for a while. It replaces the design of the WordPress login screen with the screen from version 2.3.
By the way, if you love The Daily Plugin, and would like to become a producer for a few episodes (yup, credits worthy of IMDB), we’ve made it so you can! Just visit this page and see the “Wheelbarrow” image and instructions for more.
The video is embedded at the top of this post’s page, with more about the plugin below.
WordPress 2.3 Login
WordPress 2.3 Login will make your WordPress login screen like it did during version 2.3. As we’re now well into the 3.1 version of WordPress now, the differences between the two login screens are pretty stark.
If you have any particular affection for the old style, you might really like this plugin.
Video recorded with version 0.9.4 of WordPress 2.3 Login, running WordPress 3.1.3.
About the plugin author
Paul Willen is the developer of this plugin, and he tweets and blogs.
Is your plugin worthy?
If you would like to see your plugin featured on an episode of The Daily Plugin, send your plugin information over to dailyplugin@wpcandy.com. We’ll see you tomorrow for another Daily Plugin!
Posted in The Daily Plugin | Tagged Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on July 2, 2011
So I don’t know about you, but I really love WPCandy. And not just because it contains 90% of my own writing. Even more than the site, I love all the folks that make it possible for the site to happen by powering WPCandy.
I’d like to thank those who have powered WPCandy recently:
- Big thanks to Shawn Hesketh of WP101 (which we’ve covered before) for becoming the first Executive Producer of The Daily Plugin. The show has taken off really well, and support like Shawn’s will keep the show going strong!
- Thanks to Trent Lapinski, Scott Schang, and the folks at softRealty.com for sending over a Bowl of Mints. We’ll get your WPCandy shirts together and send them your way (you too Shawn!); thanks!
- Last but certainly not least, thanks to the new monthly subscribers Rhonda Hitchcock, Kelvin Jayanoris, Patrick Daly, Harish Chouhan, and long time supporter Noel Tock. The monthly subscriptions are equally as important (if not more important, you could say) than the single donations mentioned above.
Thanks again everyone!
I’d also like to take this chance to encourage you to consider powering WPCandy as well. Clearly it’s what the cool kids do! All one time amounts are appreciated, and in particular any new $5, $10, or $20 monthly subscriptions to support the site. It will end up being these monthly subscriptions that sustain the site in the long run.
If you choose not to support WPCandy in this way, could you share a particular reason why? What can we do to make the site and this situation better, to deserve your support?
Posted in Announcements, Wordpress |
By Ryan Imel on July 2, 2011
So I don’t know about you, but I really love WPCandy. And not just because it contains 90% of my own writing. Even more than the site, I love all the folks that make it possible for the site to happen by powering WPCandy.
I’d like to thank those who have powered WPCandy recently:
- Big thanks to Shawn Hesketh of WP101 (which we’ve covered before) for becoming the first Executive Producer of The Daily Plugin. The show has taken off really well, and support like Shawn’s will keep the show going strong!
- Thanks to Trent Lapinski, Scott Schang, and the folks at softRealty.com for sending over a Bowl of Mints. We’ll get your WPCandy shirts together and send them your way (you too Shawn!); thanks!
- Last but certainly not least, thanks to the new monthly subscribers Rhonda Hitchcock, Kelvin Jayanoris, Patrick Daly, Harish Chouhan, and long time supporter Noel Tock. The monthly subscriptions are equally as important (if not more important, you could say) than the single donations mentioned above.
Thanks again everyone!
I’d also like to take this chance to encourage you to consider powering WPCandy as well. Clearly it’s what the cool kids do! All one time amounts are appreciated, and in particular any new $5, $10, or $20 monthly subscriptions to support the site. It will end up being these monthly subscriptions that sustain the site in the long run.
If you choose not to support WPCandy in this way, could you share a particular reason why? What can we do to make the site and this situation better, to deserve your support?
Posted in Announcements, featured, Wordpress |
By Ryan Imel on July 1, 2011
Jigoshop has added developer licenses to their themes and extensions today today, though not in the traditional way. Jigoshop the eCommerce plugin itself can be downloaded, for free, from the WordPress.org plugin directory, and currently over 6,000 people have done just that. But Jigoshop also offers themes and extensions for their core plugin on their website, and have today made it possible to purchase developer licenses for those downloads.
The kicker? Developer purchases aren’t required for multiple uses of the plugin, just encouraged for those developers who “would do the right thing.”
In the announcement, Jay Koster of Jigoshop recognized that since their works is licensed under the Gnu Public License (or GPL) there are no restrictions they can place on the use of their themes and extensions. He did say, though, that he believed the community would respond well to that move:
So why bother with developer licenses at all? Well, we believe Jigoshop is a great product. We also have a huge amount of faith in the WordPress community. So while our standard and developer products are essentially the same thing, we’d like to think that if you’re using one of our themes (or extensions) on more than one web site you would do the right thing, and purchase a developer license.
So that’s it. No hard sell, no complicated / restrictive licensing, no forcing current customers to upgrade to developer licenses, just an option to pay extra if you wish to.
We’re all about supporting WordPress community projects around here. After all, that’s how we exist.
Do you think many will be drawn toward upgrading their purchase with Jigoshop? Or will most, in the end, go with whatever route is the cheapest?
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