Hello, this is Lucas Carlson, the new owner of WFReview Plugin.
Some of you on twitter (http://twitter.com/wfreview) might have already heard the news, but Nick is passing the torch. He is still going to be around and a part of our community but I will be in charge.
Nick and I are very excited about this change, especially because I have 8 years professional experience with programming in PHP and 6 more with Ruby on Rails. I have written a book about programming for O’Reilly (http://bit.ly/5FGkTh). I LOVE to program, and I am very good at it.
I am excited to start diving into the code for WFReview. It is a very neat product and it should not be very difficult for me to add enhancements quickly. I have been reading all the forum posts and getting a sense of what you guys need and want, as well as checking out my competition. In fact, I have so many enhancements lined up for the next release that it is not even going to be WFReview!
The upcoming release is called WF Review Ultra! Here are some of the upcoming features.
Game changing features
* central UPC dataset – append data from separate sources about the same product to the same post
* expire post on a specific date – use custom CSV meta to set the date and have the post moved from published to deleted
* much easier installation
* bulk redirecting affiliate links through cleaner internal links
* custom data to posts
Better CSV Imports
* Import .gz files straight from CJ
* Much smarter CSV import, no longer worry about many of the format issues
* assign the imports to a specific user
Better User Interface
* ability to choose different stars within the UI
* comparison tables
* the ability to sort posts by price or overall rating
* improved commenter names, choose a percentage of male/female
* improve commenter name data to be more realistic
* pre-populate comments from CSV
* avatar support for commenters
Better Editing Support
* no longer need cron to run scheduled jobs
* delete and rename templates
* warn before saving a template with the same name as an existing template
* one-off post ratings
Better Developer Support
* disable loading the css and google api call on pages where the script isn’t active
* ability to use “last rated”, “highest rated”, etc. as a function instead of a widget so you can use them as hooks in a custom_functions.php.
With so many changes, this plugin is going to revolutionize your review sites and it will work so much better and faster that we think of it as a new plugin entirely.
Though it is basically a new plugin, it will be available to all WFReview users for FREE!
On top of that we will be releasing the long anticipated Premium Placements plugin!
Here are the timeframes I am working with right now.
By January 15th, release the Premium Placements plugin
By February 20th, release WFReview Ultra
By March 7th, release the first 3 WFReview Ultra themes
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this transition period. I look forward to helping you all achieve great success with your projects.
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Wow, that is good news, Lucas. Seems like WFReview has an exciting future. Don’t market it too hard, please. We want to keep it for ourselves.
Congratulations and god speed with the new project.
Lasse
This really should make an already great product, really, really excellent.
I was thinking that if you are going to make all of these changes then you are really going to have to spend some time writing lots of documentation. I think that poor documentation = poor product no matter how good the code.
I hope that you can pull this off. Good luck.
Thank you for your support, I am looking forward to working with you all. Documentation will definitely be important Nathan, thank you for your concern.
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