I reviewed a couple of well-known social media tools in their free versions before deciding which one is worth the purchase. Here's what I found out.
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VAST Ads Now With ‘Silent Start’ Option
Our FV Player VAST add-on just got a useful update called Silent Start, that allows you to have the ads served with your videos start muted.
How to convert bbPress 1 forums to bbPress 2
How to convert a custom bbPress v1 forum to v2 successfully. Advice for WordPress.org who are about to start.
Playlist Styles
FV Flowplayer allows you to use tabbed playlist, playlist prev/next arrows. News about new Vimeo integration and Video Ads.
WordPress Comment Ratings Plugins Roundup: Zaki vs Ulike vs Comment Vote vs Voter vs Thumbs Rating vs GD Rating System
A new Thoughtful Comments version with comment rating and comment sorting by date and rating will be coming soon.
Multilingual Video Subtitles
How to put up multilingual subtitles for your videos.
How WordPress developers treat publishers like suckers and marks or why I’m now ashamed to be a WordPress developer
Without ever changing WordPress, no reason to keep expensive WordPress consultants on retainer or spend thousands monthly on VIP.wordpress.com.
Future of WordPress
WordPress is making Rainmaker's marketing too easy for them: "finally a useful dashboard".
Site specific VPN for OS X: sample case Pandora
The quick and easy way to route a single application or website over VPN in OS X and stay at full speed for everything else.
Realtime WordPress Comments: Disqus vs wpDisquz vs Epoch
How to best manage real time comments without a site slow down.
Let users loop your videos as they like
Some of the FV Flowplayer users play guitar and teach these skills in online classes. They picked our plugin as an effective solution for their membership websites and quickly came up with an idea: User AB loop With this unique feature your users will be able to pick the part of the video which they […]
YouTube Playlist Embedding
New version of FV Player Pro (0.5.4; it’s the Pro extension for our FV Flowplayer licensed users) gives you ability to embed playlists created on YouTube:
Supercharge your video embeds with FV Flowplayer
This way you can use our video lightbox, custom video ads, quality switching, custom start/end time, user AB loop and much more with your YouTube and Vimeo videos.
FV Flowplayer 6 Released!
FV Flowplayer has been updated to Flowplayer 6 core – bringing HLS playback to any device with Flash support, better skin and a lot of technical improvements for our future work.
WordPress Copycat Coders: WPMUdev and iThemes review
Who are the worst copycat offenders in the WordPress software sphere? There are two clear winners WPMUdev and iThemes.
Why the FV Player upgrade to Flowplayer 6 core is still only in beta
Flowplayer 6 unfortunately has few critical bugs at this point which delayed our upgrade of FV Flowplayer.
How to solve the comment notifications spam issues
Make sure your SendGrid bounced email addresses are unsubscribed from comment notifications by using our plugin.
FV Simpler SEO Improvements
We add a redirection to attachment URLs, remove shortlinks and hAtom microformat data. This article shows you why and how to re-enable it.
Vimeo Player with Channel Support
Show all of your Vimeo videos belonging to a channel on a single page. Add custom video ads to your videos.
WordPress 4.2 Database Update Difficulties
Update for WordPress 4.2.2: The issue is still real. The fix described below still works. The new db_version is 31535. When you upgrade to WordPress 4.2, it will automatically convert the tables to utf8mb4, if the following conditions are met: You’re currently using the utf8 character set. Your MySQL server is version 5.5.3 or higher (including […]
