WP Review Site keeps selling, so I keep advertising it. I've sponsored reviews by a dozen blogs and bought ad space on a dozen more. I listed it in the major script directories, the webmaster marketplaces, and the top webmaster forums. I have AdWords ads in place to reach the small amount of search volume there is for this type of software.

Can anyone suggest another good place to advertise WP Review Site?

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WP Review Site continues to sell well, enough that I spent the time to give it a proper payment form instead of just a PayPal redirect. Those that can't or choose not to use PayPal can now pay directly by credit card. By several requests, WPRS is now available in a multi-site license ($199) and developer license ($299) that lets you develop sites for clients or sale using the plugin. I just took out paid reviews with a few popular internet marketing blogs and posted in a few forums' marketplace sections to spread the word.

Tip for using WordPress as a CMS like I do for that site: Never make a field in a form called "year". It took 30 minutes of tracking throug WP's core to figure out that overrides all routing and tries to find an archive or something. My credit card expiration date was causing the POST to always go to a 404 until I renamed the field.

WP Review Site is selling even better than FeedLines already... it's nice to put 4 figures in your pocket for a bit of coding work. Some of the customers have already sent me the URLs of their sites so I could see the plugin in action! In other news, I made another site with FeedLines, this time styling it to look like popurls. It's up for auction on SitePoint in the startup sites section. See faveurls.

WP Review Site, the plugin that turns a WordPress blog into a powerful review site engine, is now available for purchase at the new wpreviewsite.com. If you want to run a site like Award Winning Hosts, allowing users to submit reviews and ratings, check it out. It's also a great WP affiliate plugin.

Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony wasn't really ready for such a massively popular service.

Yesterday I got confirmation from one of delicious's engineers that the recently released new site was indeed built on Symfony. That's great news for the framework, which was already used to create Yahoo! Bookmarks, proving it's enterprise-ready and able to scale up to millions of active users. Watch the delicious blog for a promised update on "what we learned and how we made certain decisions".

FeedLines has sold 7 copies so far, Award Winning Hosts is racking in the ever-rising web host affiliate commissions, and the plugin that powers its ratings is one of this blog's most popular pages.

It only makes sense that I should eventually do two things: Update the aging plugin, and charge for copies of it. Amidst other projects, I've started rewriting it from scratch, using AWH as the test blog again. Within the next few days I should have something easier to install, nicer to look at, and more compatible with WP 2.5+ than the original.

The top plugin users to date have been affiliate marketers building sites like AWH, so I expect there might be an actual market here, unlike most plugins targeted to average bloggers. Even if not a single person buys it, though, the work will pay for itself since AWH needs an update anyway.

The script alone has sold three copies in the first day, not bad for a few hours' work.

I've gotta say it feels good to make money somewhere other than Visitor Boost, which is a nightmare to manage and never feels like stable income despite its performance.

This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple to a programmer like me, there seems to be a market out there for any type of unique site.

Today I fleshed out the script I wrote for Website Goodies' Industry News page into something generic enough anyone could use it. FeedLines is the result — an RSS feed aggregator much like PopUrls or AllTop, two pretty high traffic sites. FeedLines serves as a demo of the site and links to a page where you can buy the script for $49.95. I am going to give selling copies of this as turnkey sites on the marketplace a try later this week.

I just moved Website Goodies, my oldest site at 12 years, over to WordPress as its CMS, replacing dozens of poorly written, exploitably bad PHP files and even worse databases. Now I can manage everything from one place and, perhaps, even give the site some new content. It's still popular as far as my sites go, and brings in the AdSense clicks consistently. I hope all the Google ads advertising Google aren't a result of the move, since most of the URLs didn't change.