Frozen account

For the second time in less than 4 months Paypal has frozen our account. Over the next couple weeks we will be looking at alternative payment processors. The first time this happened I was able to contact customer support and get someone there to reverse the transaction and close the “fraud prevention” case. Andrea & [...]

3.3 is out – you’re good to go

WordPress 3.3 was released into the wild last night and the biggest question on people’s mind is “Will my plugins break?” Not ours. Feel free to update.

Eating our own dog food

Somewhat an unappetizing but often used phrase within a lot of development communities, here at WPeBooks we’re fans of eating our own dog food too. In short, this means we use the products we develop. WPeBooks is just one of our properties; we also run a successful network install offering free blogs for homeschoolers. As [...]

500th sale

Just before we went to WordCamp Montreal, we announced on Twitter only that we were holding an impromptu contest for our 500th sale. Then we kept a careful eye on sales, and noted the 500th. I’ve just emailed the winner, who can out himself in the comments if he wishes, but he not only gets [...]

Re-releasing Aggregating Global Content

How’s your summer? Busy? Hot? Here in our office we’ve been putting our heads together over how to make things better. And one of those things was making one of our ebooks all new and revamped. We even changed the title! Still means the same, now with less boring. Aggregating Global Content will now be [...]

Montreal here we come!

Ron and I are headed to WordCamp Montreal a few days early, for a couple extra days of vacation. As such, support will be light. We’ll still have access to email during some parts of the day. You’ll be able to follow our progress and see any real-time notices on my Twitter account. As always, [...]

Updates for WordPress 3.2

I’ve check all of our WP eBooks plugins and they all work with WP 3.2 without needing an update. I did release two new versions yesterday: WP Replicator – fixed a couple warnings (props Shane & Peter) & added a filter for the options that the replicator skip during the replication process. Networks+ – added [...]

Promotions for Genesis

A few months back we added a promotions box to our theme on WP “Must-Use” Tutorials. Until today, the promotion has been handled by a template file that we added to the theme. Every time we change the promotion, we had to edit the theme. Since we moved the site to a new server in [...]

New general support area

We just realized that we did not have any public support area for pre-sale questions or general questions users would not mind in public. So, over the weekend I quickly created our new General Support area. If you’re a fellow member, I’d like to encourage you to ask or even answer questions to help each [...]

Summer Sale!

Well it’s hot enough we can start opening the office windows and let the cool summer breeze blow in. Up here in the wilds of Canada the trees are in full leaf, my tulips came up and it looks like the long cold finger of winter is dead for a few months. We thought we’d [...]