Wondering which Content Management System (CMS) you should use? How about which social networks are the most popular? What about website scripts are the most oft installed? Website backup and restore service CodeGuard shares some key data from it's own client base. It's unidentifyable data, but it covers 250,000 small business sites, and tells us a great deal. For … [Read more...]
Here’s Why I Posted all those Shareaholic Issues
Last month I reported on various issues regarding the Shareaholic WordPress plugin and suite of apps. While the bulk of responses I received from users was supportive, I did get quite a few questions, some not so positive. And that's okay. I don't expect everyone to agree with my methods to push my findings out into the open. I continue to receive questions daily. Some are … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to Shareaholic
[UPDATES] Shareaholic has been making changes. See bottom of this post for ALL updates as I realize them!! This post is in response to Shareaholic's VP of Product David Zakur, who posted a "clarification" of things I've previously reported here and here. I responded directly to his post, but my comment was deleted. You can read my on-the-fly response to it at Reddit. You can … [Read more...]
More Shareaholic Findings (WordPress Violations, TOS & More)
UPDATE: On October 1st, Shareaholic announced "Promoted Content". This swaps out Related Content with native advertising. The feature was launched ON and configured with a medium setting (in my tests this means if you're displaying 6 related blocks, it is 2 ads and 4 posts). Note: Since my original and this post went live, Shareaholic has made a few changes. Updates on those … [Read more...]
When You Realize that Plugin You Love is a Lying Cheat
Note: Updates have been made since this post first launched on 09/24/14. The bottom of this post outlines the changes. Let's face it. Plugins make our lives easier. Especially on WordPress. Without them, we'd be left having to learn to code for every desired feature, or we'd have pay big bucks to have it done. So it makes sense that we install plugins to handle just about … [Read more...]