Month: January 2015

GPL License Abuse In WordPress: Money Out Of Thin Air?

GPL License Abuse In WordPress: Money Out Of Thin Air?

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GPL license is designed, among others, to encourage innovation and development in software industry without being confined by certain vendor or developer. The original purpose of GPL is all in a good spirit. It's for the user, for the people. That's what makes WordPress so amazing. Look how far WordPress have come and how much it has benefited everyone. The growth of WordPress itself and its community are so rapid year after year. It's a good thing all around. Now, WordPress make lots of people lots of money, don't it? Many have built businesses off WordPress. But with all of this, there also came those who set out to abuse the license and the system, for their own profit. People who just blatantly abuse the GPL license, not to benefit the community, not to contribute to innovation, not to help other people in a good manner, but to make profits out of thin air. I'm talking about people who blatantly take other people's...
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Overlay Ad On Video For WordPress

Overlay Ad On Video For WordPress

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Overlay Ad On Video For WordPress is a WordPress plugin for those who want to run an ad over their videos on a WordPress website. This plugin works on embedded videos as well as self-hosted videos. Your videos can be either in a post, page, or template files. To use inside template files, please use WordPress do_shortcode. To put it simply, use shortcode wherever you want your video with an ad to appear. Significance: Force visitors to actually look at your ads, increasing visitor awareness of the ads Higher CTR (click-through rate) for your ads Higher conversion or lead, hence revenue boost Powerful form of advertisement Avoid waste of space for traditional static banner ads that your visitors are so used to ignore (or don't even look at) Features: Easy use of shortcode You have control over each video and ad size. Either control video size globally, or individually. Force visitors to close the ad before they can watch a video. Your...
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VideoJikan WordPress Theme

VideoJikan WordPress Theme

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Originally a clone theme of a popular video site Blip.tv, VideoJikan has evolved to a lot more than just a clone theme. Theme Features: Pre-roll video ad Overlay ad on video Watch in the dark / Turn off the lights feature while watching video Easy built-in video embed feature (no additional plugins required) Supports all video embed codes from all major video sites Auto resized videos Related videos without additional plugins Built-in homepage slider without additional plugins Built-in social share on each post without additional plugins Featured categories and posts on the homepage Responsive layout Ability to set your own image to each category Theme Options Two 336×280 banner advertisement slots Navigation menu in the header and footer Social buttons ready Ready for use with WP-PageNavi plugin Release Notes: Version 2.0.1 – Fixed watch in the dark feature not covering the whole screen problem. – Fixed enable/disable pre-roll clashing with watch in the dark. Version 2.0.0 – Added preroll video ad feature, with options on the options...
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