DISQUS

Would you by any chance be using gmail in offline mode?
I've been having the same problems on the laptop but not the main machines.

I'm afraid no email in my inbox or spam box, its getting late and only just got back from Christmas eve party so perhaps not the best time for me to look anyway. I've tended to notice wordpress username password mails can take their time so will check again after breakfast and see if we can sort the problem before the Turkey is served.

@Michel Fortin - Strange can you give a little more info, like wordpress version, also when you go back into the edit screen is the password showing?

I did it rather quickly this morning so did not test it thoroughly but will Iorn out kinks?

Michel just for you I have coded up a quick plugin which allows you to specify a password on any post and then protect content by wrapping it in [password][/password] simply enter the password to see the content.

Download it for free:
http://www.newmedias.co.uk/free-wordpress-plugins/

It also integrates with Your Members (thanks for the link by the way) so people can run a membership site but also provide a method to allow non members access to specific posts or pages via a password/key.

Have a merry Christmas and let me know if it does what you want

I think a) people don't entirely want to be reliant on third parties to provide what should be a core function, b) that many peoples contents not fully indexed or indeed that they want their content to be indexed!

For example a wordpress blog using a membership plugin,is unlikely to be easily searched using Google for premium content (unless they use a first click free system) in such cases they might have to rely on Wordpress own search system, which like everything else is pretty expandable and can be modified with plugins and templates.

c) I just finished writing a simple plugin for a client using our Your Members plugin to allow them to show the "premium" content at the top of search results something she could do with Wordpress but would be difficult to do with a custom search.

d) The information you can get through plugins like search meter not only helps you identify rough numbers of searchers (I suspect its a lot higher then you think) but also what they are searching for, which provides you with the ability to perhaps create hub pages to meet there needs or maybe provide ideas for an articles.

that said Wordpress search sucks there is plenty you could do though Joost did a good Improving Wordpress Search Article not so long ago.

@Dave Attacking? If your Dave Watkins then I'm really sorry and I will go on record as saying a huge apology my understanding was wp-members lead developer was one of the paybox developers calling himself Hitec and he is clearly from Greece ;) If you hook up with me via gtalk, I will send you some snags you may still have we certainly spent a lot of time with the original code so if your plugin is based on it then might be worth comparing notes.

As for the CNMs vs CNMS ltd we quite clearly state we are not Cambridge New Media Limited there are 4 companies trading on that name or similar I would say we been trading under that name for nearly 9 years though we only recently acquired our shiny domain. But it's interesting to note a similar comment was left on Wordpress.org after I pointed out that someone was promoting your product by pretending to be a customer which of course would breach the unfair trading practices laws if the company was British not Greek ;) but it was meant to be a friendly jab at what was a bit to obvious sales tactic which seems to have esculated.

But anyway if the owner of wp-members is Dave Watkins I apologise I made an unfair remark to insinuate that Paybox and wp-member were the same people. I also have not bought wp-member so made the assumption it was the same product based on the excellent demo (you put my screencast to shame) they have and on the error message produced when looking at one of their testimonials (So no one misunderstands the error was not serious and only happened because I knew where to look and would not effect most membership sites). It was wrong of me to jump to conclusions but given the recent spats on wordpress.org it's easier to see where I might have misunderstood there is certainly room for multiple membership management software in Wordpress and the two plugins and certainly no need for either plugin to interfere with the other. So as I say happy to offer our notes regarding paybox problems.

@anonymous. Sigh. Really now that is pathetic ;) but go on I will play along as the injured party, but given that the developers were Greek and reasonably well known it's unlikely I was the original developer of the code.

Nor is Your Members the same code a cursory look at the source code would reveal that they are not the same ;)

Now if your looking for an identical copy to Paybox might I suggest wp-members as a possible alternative. The main developer is a nice greek chap and it looks identical to paybox hopefully minus the bugs but I suspect you already knew that.

Blatent plug, but with Paybox being bug ridden to the point of non usable I had to resort to getting the team to develop our own Membership Plugin, Your Members the Wordpress Membership Plugin was the result

Note to Michael your welcome to grab one of the review copies just drop me a line and I will hook you up a copy.

To really add to Andy comment, this is not a major event, a major event would have been to admit that Flash/Flex designer developers need to change their ways to develop Search engine friendly sites and to provide tools for them to do so. Until Adobe and Google agree a method of headings and other ranking factors their is no way Google can truly rank a flash file. That is of course if they can get beyond the fact a flash file is an object who's basis is time based while pages and websites in general are flat and interlinked these are two very separate objects matching them is not going to be easy!

The saying about the bear in the woods springs to mind....

It is slightly worrying that people jumped on an announcement that basically said nothing new. The Flash Search SDK has been around for a couple of years now and Google implemented it some time ago so this big announcement is actually hyping up a pretty lowly modification, since flash still carries no semantic meta data of any sort it still will suffer all the problems it currently has when it comes to ranking.

Google has indexed SWFs for well over a year, this announcement means Google now has even more content to deal with and yet provides no real mechanism to help either Google or Developers with tools to assist actual ranking.

As per normal I am not a lawyer and no very little about the US civil law system. But I would hope Vlad will take a little comfort that they chose big statements rather then gritty details , by that I mean they are going to attempt to convince things like Malice rather then going for something which is less showy but easier to prove on a technicality.

That said I guess in this outing their lawyers are not on no win no fee, in the US can the defendant demand costs be paid in full by the plaintiff if the charges amounted to nothing or do they have to counter sue?

As per normal I am not a lawyer and no very little about the US civil law system. But I would hope Vlad will take a little comfort that they chose big statements rather then gritty details , by that I mean they are going to attempt to convince things like Malice rather then going for something which is less showy but easier to prove on a technicality.

That said I guess in this outing their lawyers are not on no win no fee, in the US can the defendant demand costs be paid in full by the plaintiff if the charges amounted to nothing or do they have to counter sue?

yes
In the late 90s the craze was something called nuke a CMS which at its time was revolutionary and spawned numerous clones written in a host of programming languages. The problem was every site using it looked the same and generally very ugly!

yes
In the late 90s the craze was something called nuke a CMS which at its time was revolutionary and spawned numerous clones written in a host of programming languages. The problem was every site using it looked the same and generally very ugly!

Hi Diane, I know I replied over on my own site, but thought I would add quickly that my article was aimed very squarely at companies over individuals. Just because in my view Wordpress is not suitable for companies does not make it a bad platform to run a business on. However even though the software is free their is always a cost, even if you are not accurately measuring it.

on SBI I know in my reply to you on my blog I likened it to a Cult perhaps that gave over a sinister unintended edge :) I like Andys description of it being a process when you buy into SBI you are buying into their way of thinking.

Hi Diane, I know I replied over on my own site, but thought I would add quickly that my article was aimed very squarely at companies over individuals. Just because in my view Wordpress is not suitable for companies does not make it a bad platform to run a business on. However even though the software is free their is always a cost, even if you are not accurately measuring it.

on SBI I know in my reply to you on my blog I likened it to a Cult perhaps that gave over a sinister unintended edge :) I like Andys description of it being a process when you buy into SBI you are buying into their way of thinking.

The tell-a-friend process has been around for a decade now
online, and is used on perhaps millions of websites, blogs,
and newsletters. It's not just the major players using this technology, it is now available to the masses.

If I asked you for your Gmail username and password, are you going to tell me? Is my server safe and secure? what if I was to hack your script so it did store the passwords? here is an interesting question, if I did modify the script and some one sued you how would you react?

Sure Andy, I would always worry about that too, but I think
the misunderstanding is that our claim is not that it keeps
"no records" (because as you said - everything online has a
record) - but the fact is, that our script collects no
records, and stores no information that is pit in the form.

You are aware there are a host of legal reasons why you have to maintain records, from data retention laws here in the UK, to CAN-SPAM and COPPA regulations in the US. Without maintaining such records you leave yourself open to law suit. So while it would not be wise to record the passwords the actual mail and information sent out should be recorded, of course then you get into the realm of data privacy.

The tell-a-friend process has been around for a decade now
online, and is used on perhaps millions of websites, blogs,
and newsletters. It's not just the major players using this technology, it is now available to the masses.

If I asked you for your Gmail username and password, are you going to tell me? Is my server safe and secure? what if I was to hack your script so it did store the passwords? here is an interesting question, if I did modify the script and some one sued you how would you react?

Sure Andy, I would always worry about that too, but I think
the misunderstanding is that our claim is not that it keeps
"no records" (because as you said - everything online has a
record) - but the fact is, that our script collects no
records, and stores no information that is pit in the form.

You are aware there are a host of legal reasons why you have to maintain records, from data retention laws here in the UK, to CAN-SPAM and COPPA regulations in the US. Without maintaining such records you leave yourself open to law suit. So while it would not be wise to record the passwords the actual mail and information sent out should be recorded, of course then you get into the realm of data privacy.

Did I hear my name mentioned:)

A couple of generic points which might be important but note IAMNL

Ignorance is no excuse in the British legal system.

Your honour how was I to know telling people I made 20 million pounds last year when I only made a fiver

simply wont wash

Second just because you haven't been caught doesn't mean you won't as UK business shifts more towards the web so to will trading standards efforts.
When in doubt write it down, I think it's a safe bet to be looking at having a disclaimer page on every site even if it simply states that the site has affiliate links.

With that I'm off to clean up my disclaimer policies and declare that Cindy is not quite who she seems :)

Did I hear my name mentioned:)

A couple of generic points which might be important but note IAMNL

Ignorance is no excuse in the British legal system.

Your honour how was I to know telling people I made 20 million pounds last year when I only made a fiver

simply wont wash

Second just because you haven't been caught doesn't mean you won't as UK business shifts more towards the web so to will trading standards efforts.
When in doubt write it down, I think it's a safe bet to be looking at having a disclaimer page on every site even if it simply states that the site has affiliate links.

With that I'm off to clean up my disclaimer policies and declare that Cindy is not quite who she seems :)

Hi Matt,
It's always a balancing act between reporting conclusions and discussing data. While I have no real qualms about releasing the data it would without terms of reference and explanation of each test be totally meaningless much like me saying the answer to the question was 4. Instead I choose to explain the methodology in enough detail that others can choose to replicate the experiments and then draw the conclusions if I had to explain the method, the results and the data as well as draw conclusions the posts would be pages long and I have neither the time or the inclination to do so.

Hi Matt,
It's always a balancing act between reporting conclusions and discussing data. While I have no real qualms about releasing the data it would without terms of reference and explanation of each test be totally meaningless much like me saying the answer to the question was 4. Instead I choose to explain the methodology in enough detail that others can choose to replicate the experiments and then draw the conclusions if I had to explain the method, the results and the data as well as draw conclusions the posts would be pages long and I have neither the time or the inclination to do so.

Just on the point of anchor text, UK accessibility legislation requires "companies" to maintain accessible websites. Most accessibility experts agree the general consensus is that an accessible web site is one that reaches the WAI level 1 and attempts to meet Level 2 (or in old money Bobby AA and AAA)
To meet Level 2;

13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2]

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Therefore a UK business would be obliged to provide not only a search engine friendly link but more importantly a human friendly link.

Just on the point of anchor text, UK accessibility legislation requires "companies" to maintain accessible websites. Most accessibility experts agree the general consensus is that an accessible web site is one that reaches the WAI level 1 and attempts to meet Level 2 (or in old money Bobby AA and AAA)
To meet Level 2;

13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2]

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Therefore a UK business would be obliged to provide not only a search engine friendly link but more importantly a human friendly link.

My biggest request to StumbleUpon is stability, a Good example I was planning on doing a post on pimping your profile but in the space of the week StumbleUpon had changed how it handled images in profiles from none, to jpeg only, then PNG and then back to none it what appeared to be a few hours.

I can see progress is important but I would like to see them rather then push new features fix the ones they have web2.0 seems to be a new term for buggy code.

That said I still love and use StumbleUpon with all quirks!