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Today Jeff Chandler at Weblog Tools Collection published an interesting article discussing the cost of a WordPress installation. The comments that followed were quite interesting to read. A lot of developers agreed that $20-$70 for a raw installation was fine. Of course, there was a strong argument that it should be free.

So how much is a WordPress installation? If you want my services, I charge $35/hour for a basic WordPress installation (minimum one hour). Why would I charge by the hour? Clients want different things in an installation. Some just need WordPress installed straight up. Others need plugins downloaded and installed. And others need a database created, FTP set up, plugins downloaded, and a theme customized…

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I’m happy to announce the release of Email Protect 1.0, a WordPress plugin that automatically obfusctes email addresses in posts, pages, and comments. What is the advantage of this? It allows you to safely display email addresses yet protect them from spam bots that harvest email addresses from the HTML of webpages.

Here is an example of it in action:

Text Obfuscation:
emailme [at] here [dot]com

Image Obfuscation:

Here’s it’s features at a glance:

• Automatically protect email addresses from spam harvesters in posts, pages, and comments
• Obfuscate email addresses using text (myemail [at] example [dot] com) or images
• Control email text replacement for the “@” sign and final period in emails
• Control font, font color, background color, and border color of obfuscated email images
• Convert…

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I’m sorry for not updating the blog for the last week. I’ve had some family issues and work problems I’ve been dealing with. But to make up for it I’ve spent a few hours on Email Protect, a WordPress plugin that obfuscates email addresses into text or images automatically in posts, pages, and comments to keep them from being harvested by spam bots. That’s right. Email addresses typed into posts or pages will be converted automatically into either a protected text or image format. You choose which one in the “settings”. Email addresses typed into comments are always converted into text replacements.

Since this is a release candidate I haven’t gotten around to creating a…

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Off-and-on for the past several weeks I’ve been working on a freelance WordPress plugin for the Market Theme, a premium WordPress theme that converts your site into an online store. The release of the plugin coincides with the release of Market 3, a brand new version that lets the user have both a dedicated blog and a store in one.

The theme is top notch. It makes selling both digital goods and mailed good extremely simple. So what was my role? I designed the Market Product Manager plugin which provides a much easier way to add products into the system. The theme, as most advanced themes, relies heavily on custom fields. For many users, however, custom…

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It’s just been announced that Matt Mullenweg, creator of all things WordPress, will be appearing on the WordPress Weekly Podcast on May 23rd 2008 at 9PM EST. WP Weekly is an excellent weekly podcast that covers anything related to WordPress. It’s run by my friend Jeffro over at Jeffro2pt0. Make sure not to miss this episode, it’ll be a good one for sure!

Instructions for connecting to the podcast live or downloading a recorded version after the show can be found on the official WP Weekly homepage.

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I’ve just released version 1.2 of Smart Ads, a WordPress plugin that allows users to automatically (yet intelligently!) insert advertisments like Adsense before and after their posts. This version brings three new features to the plugin.

First, users can chose to hide the advertisment that is placed before the post content if their content begins with an image. This helps save the formatting of their posts.

Second, custom ads can be inserted by placing <!-smartads-> or {smartads} into the post or page content based on the users settings in the Options menu. This allows users who use the visual editor to bypass WordPress’s default “I hate HTML” mentality by using something other then an HTML comment.

Finally, the…