Month: February 2014

Feb

2014

Comment Ads Plugin

Update: The sale for the compelling Comment Ads plugin is now live at just $10.00 for the first 48 hours.

It will then rise to ~~$12.50~~ for the duration of the sale.

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Build Your Mailing List Or Show Them An Ad – It’s Your Choice

This plugin takes advantage of the moments following when a visitor has left a comment on your WordPress driven site, to present them with an ad or other call to action such as opting in to your mailing list. After you’ve set colours etc, it might look like this:-

This is a prime time to show your visitors something like this as they’ve just committed a few minutes of their time to leave a few words. While they’re still focussed on you and your site then the chances are high that they’ll spend the next few moments checking out your offer.

The plugin admin settings allow you to design elements of the ad, including: content, size, border and background colours, optin forms etc in an easy to use panel.

Set ad placement and content.

Set social options.

Add your autoresponder form code.

Finally, adjust the ad box layout and colours and then save your settings.

You can see what the comment ad in this example looks like for yourself here on this demo site. Just leave a comment on either a post or page and you’ll see the call to action ad appear.

Together with some design and layout changes I’m making to my key sites, this plugin will become part of those sites and also my overall strategy.

You could do the same thing. 😉

-Frank Haywood

Feb

2014

Secret Backdoor Plugin

Update: The sale for the save-your-bacon Secret Backdoor plugin is now live at just $10.00 for the first 36 hours.

It will then rise to ~~$12.50~~ for the duration of the sale.

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The back door plugin has been designed to manage and generate small scripts you can download and then upload to all your sites and all your client sites too.

These small scripts enable you to create a WP admin account on sites where you may have had your access removed for one reason or another such as a hack attack. If it’s a hack, you could either leave the script there the whole time, or upload it by FTP after the “event” and then call it from your browser to re-enable access to the WP admin panel.

As another example, if you have a non-paying client that has removed access to the site you’ve been working on, you can use it to regain access by creating a new admin account and then remove the work you’ve done until the client pays you.

I’m sure this situation has happened to many web developers and consultants.

In this case you would have to place the script on the site as a precautionary measure beforehand.

Once you need to regain access to the site, you simply call the script in your web browser and you’ll see a simple form where you add your new username and email address plus the password you want to use for the new account, and also (most importantly) the secret key. Without the secret key you won’t be able to create the new account – you should make sure that the secret key is something that’s isn’t easily guessable.

Finally, it could also be used to temporarily create an admin account where a customer has asked you to look at their WordPress site but has only given you the FTP login details.

It happens, believe me! 😉

Because this plugin is a joint venture between Glen and I, it won’t be available in the Plugin Great members area, sorry.

If you’re a PG member, don’t worry I’ve got some other cool plugins in the final stages. 🙄

I’m sure once you see how it can save your bacon that you’ll want to add it to your arsenal.

–Frank Haywood

Feb

2014

Dynamic Download Plugin

Update: The sale for the very useful Dynamic Download plugin is now live at just $10.00 for the first 36 hours.

It will then rise to $12.50 for the duration of the sale.

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Turn Your Links Into List Building Ads

You can find the demo page here. Click the three download links to see examples of what you can do.

During this sale ONLY it comes with full developer (client/flipper) rights, and ALSO resale rights too. When the sale is over these rights will be removed and will be an optional purchase, so this is the best time to get the plugin.

As usual I’m releasing a plugin that I originally wanted for my own purposes, and the good news is you get the benefit from it too, and (as it’s new) you’ll get it at the lowest price it will ever be in this sale.

What does it do?

It allows you to turn your normally plain download links into optin forms and general purpose ads and info boxes.

The way it works from a readers point of view is they click the download link as usual, and instead of the download starting immediately, they’re presented with a lightbox popup instead.

Inside this popup is a countdown to when their download will start. 🙂

In other words you now have a captive audience.

And while they’re waiting, you can ask that they sign up in return for something extra, or you can present them with an ad for something related.

This is powerful stuff.

The chances are very high that they’ll fill those seconds that they’re waiting with a click or an opt-in.

In other words, you’re taking your regular download links and turning them into list builders.

The more I think about this, the more I wonder why a site owner wouldn’t want to improve their site in this way.

It’s a nice, simple, and *gentle* list building setup that *anyone* could use. 😉

The sale starts Tuesday 4th February at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EDT) and the best time to buy it is in the first 36 hours as it will be just $10 during that period and will include additional licencing rights as described above.

-Frank Haywood