Shane Pearlman

As you all know, SXSW is one of the pinnacle conferences of our industry. Hopefully we’ll get to meet some of you there. Drop us a note if you are going!

SXSW session picker voting has begun. Peter & I have two talks we are pitching, one on the business of technology and one of the business of people. We would really love your help in promoting them. Go sign up and vote. Leave excited comments. Ask questions. Send this to your friends. Tweet it. Facebook it….

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We have just released the 1.1 update to the WordPress premium Events Calendar plugin.

For those of you who haven’t checked it out: The Events Calendar Premium plugin for Wordpress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the custom post editor. Features include Google Maps integration, iCal support as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation. Check out the full screencast here.

DOWNLOAD PREMIUM EVENT CALENDAR

Premium Events Calendar release 1.1 notes:
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Easily create vanity URLs on your WordPress site to redirect to any other url. For example, you can use this plugin to have http://www.myblog.com/iphone point to a link on the itunes store. Obviously you can also use this to point many urls on your site to the same post.

* Redirect from simple local urls to any url of your choosing
* Safely coded to prevent conflicts of url slugs
* Extremely clean premium quality code
* Install and use it in under 60 seconds!
* Perfect for all of your WordPress redirection needs

Download The Redirector Pro

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These are not the designers you are looking for… Oh wait, no no we ARE the designers you are looking for!

This morning, the latest contractor to join our crew asked me: “Why does MTV want to work with us? They have amazing designers and are a huge company. What can we do that they haven’t completely mastered?” It was a fair question. Why does MTV outsource work? Or AOL, SAP, NBC or any of our other customers? Is it because any company with a three letter all-cap acronym can’t built its own technology? Nope, that’s not it at all. We’ve personally run into 6 different reasons. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were others, and I’d be stoked to hear all about it in the comments. Ok, let’s kick it off:

* They’re slammed.
* The idea/strategy was pitched and included your services.
* They are stuck.
* The internal team lacks a specific specialty.
* Politics prevent internal allocations.
* Accountability. We just get things done.

Read the full article On the eLance Blog where it was posted.

Twitter Widget Pro for WordPress

Events Calendar Pro for WordPress

We’ve officially launched our first handful of Premium WordPress Plugins in partnership with Brandon Jones (EpicEra).

Check out the “Events Calendar Pro” plugin for all of your event management needs – a robust calendar system built specifically for WordPress 3.0. Also be sure to find the first premium “Twitter Widget Pro” for multi-user twitter feed management. Yep, that’s right, you can manage multiple twitter users from the same widget – sweet!

3rd in a series of wordpress admin patterns. The pattern is for the Add New Post screen (post editor) in Wordpress 3.0. Please not that while it is most likely feature complete, they are still fussing with it just a little bit, so I may have to fine tone it for the public release. Hopefully for all you devs out there about to crack open custom post types, this should give you a great foundation for quickly wireframing out your new plugin.

Download Balsamiq Post Add / Edit Pattern: Post Editor.bmml

Next up: media lightbox & widget management.

For updates, release information and tips about Shane & Peter’s open source wordpress plugins or redmine core ux/ui, ipad or the freelance lifestyle, follow Shane on twitter @justlikeair and visit http://blog.shaneandpeter.com.

2nd in a series of wordpress admin Balsamiq patterns. This pattern is for the Wordpress 3.0 Beta admin comment list.

Download the Pattern: Comments List.bmml

For updates, release information and tips about Shane’ & Peters open source wordpress plugins or redmine core ux/ui, ipad or the freelance lifestyle, follow Shane on twitter @justlikeair and visit http://blog.shaneandpeter.com.

We have just released a significant update to our companion Wordpress plugin Eventbrite for the Events Calendar. The plugin allows you to:

* Sell tickets directly from your post
* Extensive template tags for customization
* MU Compatible
* Many of the amazing features of Eventbrite – directly from Wordpress
* Use shortcode to place any event ticketing on any post

New features for Release 1.6:

* Import event info from Eventbrite by event id number.
* Payment options now specified from post edit
* Improved error handling and reporting
* Updated to new Eventbrite logo

Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the Wordpress Forum.

This release was quite the adventure and a major work for all the contributors. Huge thanks go out to Justin Endler and Kelsey Damas took the role of batman so that I could play Robin. The community was super active and we thank you for all your support, bug reports and more. For all you who predominant speak other languages, we got quite a few new translations submitted. Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the Wordpress Forum.

This will be the last major open source release on this plugin for a short while. We are exploring the possibility of converting this to a premium plugin and will let you all know quite soon what we decide. Work on 1.7, which will be released as a premium plugin (custom post types and more) is under way.

To Download: The Events Plugin 1.6
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DOWNLOAD WORDPRESS POST LIST BALSAMIQ PATTERN

I have been having a great time working with balsamiq to quickly push out wireframes for projects. We have a few large wordpress plugins in the works for customers which will really take advantage of 3.0 custom post types.

Up till now a lot of UI work when designing plugins was a bit of the wild west. With Jane heading up the UI/UX team and Tracy working on a design and ui standards doc, I was inspired to build some patterns which would help our crew build cleaner and easier to use plugins. I wanted to start by being better in line with the wordpress UI. So I am working on a simple Balsamiq pattern for the most modified parts of the wordpress 3.0 admin.

Peldi, the lead over at Balsamiq saw the news of my computers demise and offered out to help (now that’s customer service). I’ll post more as they come up. He might also post them (with my blessing) on mockupstogo.net.

These are not pixel perfect. For that, we would need Peter’s discerning eye, but for the wordpress plugin developer who wants to have a nice wireframe to start from, its a nice tool.

For updates, release information and tips about our open source wordpress plugins or redmine core ux/ui, ipad or the freelance lifestyle, follow me on twitter @justlikeair.