Category Archives: Announcement

Translating RSVPMaker – First Translation to Polish!

RSVPMaker finally has its first international translation, thanks to some help from Jarosław Żeliński, a consultant who has been working with the plugin. Here is what the editing panel for setting dates and RSVP parameters looks like in Polish: Note that … Continue reading

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ChimpBlast Updated, Adds Cron Utility for Scheduling Newsletters

The latest version of the ChimpBlast plugin for sending email broadcasts through the MailChimp service is available now at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chimpblast/ ChimpBlast was designed to be used with RSVPMaker, and to make it easy to generate a simple newsletter based on recent … Continue reading

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RSVPMaker 2.0 Released

RSVPMaker version 2.0 is available for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsvpmaker/ The most significant change is that I’ve fixed the function for downloading reports to Excel. Again. Yes, I previously announced this improvement, but it turned out to be premature because bundling in … Continue reading

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Webinar on Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress

I am hosting a webinar Thursday April, 14 2011 at 7 pm ET on the use of the Facebook Tab Manager WordPress plugin I created, which allows a website operator to include blog posts and other content on a Facebook page for a … Continue reading

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ChimpBlast 1.0 Published to the WordPress.org Repository

Just published to WordPress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chimpblast/ ChimpBlast lets you compose broadcast email messages for use with the MailChimp service from within WordPress. You can compose messages in the WordPress rich text editor, import the content of posts, preview the results on your … Continue reading

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ChimpBlast plugin readied for release

I’ve gone back and cleaned up the ChimpBlast plugin, which allows you to create email messages based on blog posts and RSVPMaker events and distribute them through the MailChimp service. My request to add it to the WordPress.org repository is … Continue reading

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Displaying RSVPMaker Content in a Facebook Page Tab

I’ve been doing some experiments with the new Facebook page tabs, which are based on HTML iframes rather than FBML markup. I cooked up a new Facebook Tab Manager plugin for WordPress to make it easier to exploit this feature. … Continue reading

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RSVPMaker as an alternative to #newmeetup

Meetup organizers who are frustrated at the changes in the service may want to consider RSVPMaker as an alternative. With a WordPress website running RSVPMaker, you can  be more in control of your own destiny by managing events on a … Continue reading

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Test Drive RSVPMaker

As an experiment, I’m allowing website visitors to self-register as “contributors” to this website, a security level that will allow you to create your own test events and preview them. Your events will be saved in ‘draft’ mode, so you … Continue reading

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RSVPMaker 1.0 Released (Make that 1.1)

Update: After a couple of small bug fixes, RSVPMaker is actually at 1.1 already. I finally worked up the nerve to call RSVPMaker a version 1.0 quality product. The latest release includes a number of things people have been asking … Continue reading

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