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Starting year in reviews again
It’s coming to the end of 2023 and I’m planning to write a year in review again.
Full List of Epic Plugins and Themes 2021
This is an update to the full list of plugins and themes from 2013 and 2015. It’s been a while since I updated this but I thought it would make sense now the plugins and themes aren’t listed for sale.
It’s a bit longer than other posts (when it was just a list) as it covers the current position, and what would be good to add to the plugins and themes in future.
1. Social Gallery Plugin (s)
This covers the following plugin suite. It was first developed in 2012 as a side product to an ebook website, and I acquired it in 2013 from the developer.
- Social Gallery Photo Viewer
- Social Gallery Video Viewer
- Social Gallery Analytics
- Social Gallery Shortcodes
The suite of plugins have always performed well, led by the photo viewer, with upsells for commonly requested features.
2. Social Buzz Plugin
This added a “Buzz” graph showing how popular a post was (how quick it was getting shared on the web)
3. “Mash” Plugins
These were the first plugins I personally developed. Pics Mash, Sound Mash, Video Mash and were neat little functionality to add to your site. Driven by the need to rank eBook covers – they gave you the ability to have your visitors click “left” or “right” and eventually (thanks to Elo’s algorithm) the top ranked image would come out top. This had great applications wider than book covers.
Which football team badge was best? Which movie poster. Which image from my recent vacation.
- Pics Mash Plugin
- Sound Mash Plugin (ranks Soundcloud tracks)
- Video Mash Plugin (Youtube videos, etc)
2020 and beyond…
If you’ve been following along with Epic Plugins and Epic Themes since 2013 when we first published our post about What is Epic Plugins? you’ll know the timeline is something like this…..
(more…)Mass Create All Translation Sets with GlotPress
We’ve been setting up translation support for extensions using GlotPress. If you’re using this too you may have hit the problem of having to add each set one by one, from GlotPress.
When you create a new project, it doesn’t have any translations and all translation sets have to be created one by one
https://glotpress.blog/2010/04/09/mass-create-translation-sets/This was super time consuming with over 200+ translation sets to add. Sure, you could just add the main ones, but why not do it properly and add them all?
(more…)Less is More
It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog. Epic Plugins has been in operation since 2012. In that period we’ve changed brand design, and changed eCommerce solutions and even changed hosts a number of times.
Transparency Report – April 2018
It’s time to kick these back into regular production. As you may have seen, I took a bit of a break in writing these as I wrapped up the year in review post.
I think it’s a good a time as any to start them back up again. This post focusses purely on Financials.
Sunday Funday – Day 1 – Epic Metrics
So, if you read my last post you’ll have seen I decided to start a new side project. This was to give me easy to produce “epic metrics” for my transparency reports.
To save me the time in manually putting together spreadsheets and moving them into visualisations (charts) for coverage on the blog.
Embracing Open Startup Culture
I’ve always been one for sharing the positives and negatives of being an Entrepreneur. If you’re a regular follower of the blog you may have noticed that the content here has dried up a little. Why? Three reasons.
2017 Year in Review
It’s time for me to actually write my year in review for 2017. I’ve been doing this for some time now and my previous year in reviews are below. As always, these reports are for me, but if you benefit from them, then I ask you to leave a comment on this post 🙂 it helps me keep going.
The Best WordPress Plugins To Sell Photos
We’ve covered the best WordPress plugins for photographers, with an emphasis on getting your work shared. But what about getting your work sold? Going viral isn’t much use if it doesn’t translate into cold, hard cash.