I have put this site I developed as a quick project in 2007 up for sale on the SitePoint marketplace. I’ve begun work on a new site, another subscription service like W3Counter, and figure this is a good time to sell off some sites I haven’t been putting any work into but have some value.
I know this post is overdue, sorry about that.
I’ve just updated the Open Calais Tags PHP class, which allows you to automatically tag content with Open Calais’ free semantic analysis API. It now uses the v4 API’s REST URL and no longer adds a semicolon to the end of each tag. It’s also been updated to support new entity types added since the last release of the class.
I also updated the two WordPress plugins I released using this class, WP Calais Auto Tagger and WP Calais Archive Tagger, so they should be in working order again as well.
I have too much on my plate right now. With WP Review Site extremely successful, my VisitorBoost customers, and my graduate classes killing me with projects and midterms, I don’t have time to support this as well.
FeedLines is up for auction on the SitePoint marketplace. That’s the site and the script it sells:
WP Review Site is selling even better than FeedLines already… it’s nice to put 4 figures in your pocket for a bit of coding work. Some of the customers have already sent me the URLs of their sites so I could see the plugin in action! In other news, I made another site with FeedLines, this time styling it to look like popurls. It’s up for auction on SitePoint in the startup sites section. See faveurls.
WP Review Site, the plugin that turns a WordPress blog into a powerful review site engine, is now available for purchase at the new wpreviewsite.com. If you want to run a site like Award Winning Hosts, allowing users to submit reviews and ratings, check it out. It’s also a great WP affiliate plugin.
The script alone has sold three copies in the first day, not bad for a few hours’ work.
I’ve gotta say it feels good to make money somewhere other than Visitor Boost, which is a nightmare to manage and never feels like stable income despite its performance.
This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple to a programmer like me, there seems to be a market out there for any type of unique site.
Today I fleshed out the script I wrote for Website Goodies’ Industry News page into something generic enough anyone could use it. FeedLines is the result — an RSS feed aggregator much like PopUrls or AllTop, two pretty high traffic sites. FeedLines serves as a demo of the site and links to a page where you can buy the script for $49.95. I am going to give selling copies of this as turnkey sites on the marketplace a try later this week.
I just moved Website Goodies, my oldest site at 12 years, over to WordPress as its CMS, replacing dozens of poorly written, exploitably bad PHP files and even worse databases. Now I can manage everything from one place and, perhaps, even give the site some new content. It’s still popular as far as my sites go, and brings in the AdSense clicks consistently. I hope all the Google ads advertising Google aren’t a result of the move, since most of the URLs didn’t change.
First, I wrote a PHP class for passing content to Open Calais and getting back tags. Then, a WordPress plugin for tagging posts as you write them. Now, taking it one step further again, here’s a plugin for automatic tagging of your post archives.
I tried tagging for a while last year, but wasn’t consistent in my choice of tags or in tagging every post at all. That made the whole system not worth the work, so I removed the plugins I used to add tags in the first place. Now tags are as much a part of WordPress as categories, and I have almost 170 posts not tagged at all. I could edit every one and add them, manually or with the plugin, but that would take a lot of time. Instead, I wrote a plugin which goes through my entire archive of posts, sends the post title and content over to Calais and adds any tags it finds. If there were already tags on the post, only new ones found would be added. (more…)
I just completed the WP Calais Auto Tagger plugin, the obvious first use of my Open Calais Tags class. It adds a tag suggestion box to your WordPress post writing screen which suggests tags based on your post content using the Open Calais API. The suggestions can be added to the post’s tag list with a single click, or manually added if you don’t want to use them all.
If you’ve been meaning to use WordPress’s new built-in tags, but are too lazy to come up with a good list every time you blog, give the plugin a try. Comments, suggestions and bug reports are appreciated.
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