I’ve had a lot of success with WP-Amazon Reloaded so far. People have been happy with the results of my development efforts thus far. As such, I am happy to announce that I finally received WordPress.org repository access today to host the plugin.

Unfortunately, WP-Amazon Reloaded was no longer available as a name for a plugin on the official WordPress.org plugins repository so I went ahead and renamed the plugin. From now on, WP-Amazon Reloaded is Amazon Reloaded for WordPress. You can view the official repository and download the latest version there.

If you have any feature requests, please don’t hesitate to ask.

My WP-Amazon Reloaded plugin has been updated and I’ve made a few key feature changes and additions.

UPDATE: I now have official hosting for Amazon Reloaded for WordPress

Changes in the latest version include:

• Support for different Amazon locales
• Faster code
• Fixed the FOLLOWLOCATION cURL bug for those on secured PHP installations

I hope you’ll enjoy the plugin. If you are so inclined, donations are always appreciated. If you’re looking for custom plugin development after seeing this plugin, please visit Plugin-Developer.com

It is my distinct pleasure that I introduce the formal launch of a site that I’ve been working on for a while now. The site is Plugin-Developer.com, and it is the project that that I mentioned in my earlier post From Nothing to Profit in 40 Days.

What is Plugin-Developer.com?

I guess the question I get asked most frequently is “What is Plugin-Developer.com”? In essence, Plugin-Developer.com aims to serve a very unique niche in the realm of web development. There are a variety of software packages out there that make use of plugins to extend their core functionality. Many of these systems are open-source and I have programmed plugins for a good deal of them. As such, I feel I can leverage my experience and expertise to provide quality service.

Working to Success

As noted before, my success criteria is to bring this venture from nothing to profitable in 40 days. As stated before, I started on April 18th and have until May 28th to become profitable through the business. I also mentioned some of the expenses I had started to accumulate. Following is an updated list:

• Domain Registration — $29.85
• Logo Contest Fee — $39.00
• Logo Contest Prize — $150.00
• Coffee for Work Purposes — $50.00

That’s about $270.00 worth of stuff that I now need to earn back to get in the black. The question is, how am I going to do that? That’s where the plan comes in.

The Plan

I have a plan to drive targeted traffic to my website and, hopefully, get work. The first part of the plan involves advertising. I’m going to be using Adwords to attempt to find an audience that could make good use of the services I’m offering. The goal, obviously, is to get them to the quote page, where they can request for me to develop something.

The second part of the plan is to post frequently on web development forums and on the plugin forum at WordPress.org. If I can show my expertise, perhaps people will visit my site through my forum signature. Finally, I’ll be relying, somewhat, on word of mouth. I need to get people talking about my services, but I’m not entirely sure how at this point. That remains something to be determined.

Weblog Tools Collection recently announced the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5, a chance for WordPress plugin developers to use their innovative capabilities to come up with new and useful plugins. There are always good prizes at stake, and I’m determined that I’m going to enter this time. I’d love to have a chance to win my share of some cash or hosting, like last competition’s winners did.

I already have more than a few ideas of what I might be doing, but I’m not completely sure yet. If you’d like to suggest some plugins that you think would be nice to see developed, then I’d be all for considering them. Please let me know in the comments here or by email via my contact form.

I’ve recently updated my WP-Amazon Reloaded plugin to provide some more functionality. This is pretty much a necessary download at this point since I’ve changed the way transformations happen at the request level. I still have not received a response from anyone regarding official hosting for WP-Amazon Reloaded at wordpress.org/extend/plugins, but you can download the package here.

To install, simply extract the folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory. If you’re upgrading, there is no need to deactivate. Just copy the current files over the old ones and do a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) on your write page to make sure the new JavaScript and CSS are loaded.