Archive for July, 2008

PhpBay Site Build - First Month Stats

I am a few days late getting this posted, but the good news is that I did remember to get it done. I have since added reminders in my calendar to do this for the rest of the year so that you may follow along with the progress.
It has been a month (on the 24th) [...]

Use StatPress To Track EPN Clicks

If you are using phpBay Pro and Wordpress to build your sites, there is a neat little plugin that will track what items your visitors are clicking on when they are taken to eBay.
It’s called StatPress and you can get it here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/
This plugin will track many things. Such as where your visitors came from, the [...]

Free WP Theme To Park Your Domain

I see several more templates have been added to the WP Theme Directory. One of the coolest I saw was the one called “LaunchPad”.
You can see it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/launchpad
We all do it, either we buy too many domains at one time and can’t get to them all quickly or we have works in progress that [...]

Calling All WordPress Theme Designers

The other day I wrote a post about the new WordPress Theme Directory, which is located under the Extend tab on the main WordPress site.
I know it’s only been a few days, but I honestly figured by now there would be hundreds of themes on the site. Don’t get me wrong, I’m positive there will [...]

PhpBay VS Widgets Available From eBay

Fred asked a great question in the comments on this post in which I felt the answer deserved its own post.
The original question was how does phpBay differ from eBay’s own widget?
In my answer, I have several points I would like to address.
First off, you can do some of the same things as phpBay Pro [...]

Track Impressions On Your PhpBay Site

Sites built using software like phpBay or BANS use the RSS feed from eBay to display listings on your site. If you have noticed, when you run reports in your EPN account, it will show “0″ impressions however you may have 100 clicks, 20 bids and 10 winning bids in your report.
Many have wondered how [...]

PhpBay Pro V3.0.7 Released

PhpBay Pro V3.0.7 for WordPress has been released and is available for download. Just login to the store area with your given login credentials to gain access to it.
This is another maintenance release and unless you need the new features, it is not necessary to download and install at this point.
The update includes:

A fix on [...]

WordPress Theme Directory

WordPress just recently announced a new theme directory at their site. You can find it at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
For a long time, they have wanted to make a theme directory based on the model of the popular plugin directory.
They have made it easier than ever for authors to upload new themes and based upon the popularity of [...]