TubePress: WordPress Plugin for YouTube

Mar
13
Syntax error on line 15
Posted by Mario Mansour in TubePress

For all those who still not have PHP 5 on their servers, I have fixed the famous
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ on line 15 which means that TubePress.net supports now PHP 4 and above. Still working on WP 2.3 and above compatible version.

About that and since the plugin is already and open source and to be licensed under GNU/GPL, I invited everyone to help out developing this plugin. All contributions will be credited in each plugin release.
Some contributors will even be given authors permissions on this blog to write their own reviews and ideas.
By the way I would like to welcome Viljo Hakala the first contributor to TubePress.net

IMPORTANT: If you already have PHP5 on your server then you don’t need this update
Now you can download the update here

Mar
13
Videohumour.tv based on Tubepress.net
Posted by Mario Mansour in TubePress

After posting the case study of my friend’s poker site in here, I got plenty of emails from people already using TubePress to post reviews about their websites and give them some comments how they could actually take advantage of the plugin to use its powerful features to optimize the performance of their site and attract more visitors.
I would like to ask TubePress.net users to post their comments and questions on this website, so that everyone can benefit from them and another thing that it would be more efficient in a way that I will be able to answer more questions instead of replying to the same question personally to each one.
As for the idea of posting reviews about websites using tubepress.net, I decided to take different samples targeting different application areas to show that how you can use this wordpress plugin to build video communities and mashup sites based on it.

That said, here’s a nice mashup site for funny videos called video humour. It’s a french site that uses TubePress.net plugin features to import videos from youtube and post them automatically in wordpress. They have imported more than 20,000 videos from youtube in a couple of days. We will see if they will succeed to build a good community around it.

Mar
10
Poker Community Site with TubePress.net
Posted by Mario Mansour in TubePress

A friend of mine is building a poker community site and he wants to include a video section to include poker tournaments, famous poker games, some poker lessons and tricks. Most of these videos exist already on youtube. He knew of course about my wordpress plugin to import youtube videos into wordpress. I said, well, if you build your community on wordpress CMS, you will certainly benefit from the power of TubePress.net
Either you import any video tagged as poker or poker tournament or you could select your videos by ID and import them one by one.
I helped him with the design a little bit since I have been working on wordpress themes for a while now. So he ended up with a pretty nice website to give tips about How to play Texas Holdem
It’s worth checking it out, even those of you who already play texas holdem, it doesn’t hurt to check out some tips and videos before playing poker in here.