I had a question about ABTheme – instead of a permanent license, how about a transferable one?

The short answer: unfortunately, the ABTheme key is locked to a particular blog location, so transferring it to another site is impractical. However, it’s priced so low (including free to ActiveBlogging members if they wish to use their credits), that I feel it works well for each site.

However, there is another option – a yearly lease of ABTheme. That is, instead of a permanent license, a yearly renewed license.

Basically, you’d …

I was recently upgrading my blogs (including adding the WordPress install code I talked about in the May ’08 ActiveBlogging Report), and I found a couple sites with old – very old – versions of ABTheme on them.

In updating those sites, I found myself grateful I had standardized the theme over the last couple of years, which made upgrading from even year-old plugins very easy. Many of the settings carried through, and for some of the sites I could just drop in the new plugin and theme and be …

Imagine using your email program to post to your blog. Something you’re already comfortable with, making WordPress easier to use.

While email is no match for WordPress and its interactive editing, there are times you can’t access your blog directly, so email can be a VERY handy feature. For example, when traveling, when there’s no access to Internet cafes (but you do have a email capability on your handheld). And so on.

As well, for those that want to ‘prefill’ a blog with content, email is often easier to …

I take version numbers seriously.

When I see a v6.05 or a v4.03 or something like that, I understand it to be a contract between the developer and the client, “this works, and will remain unchanged until I change the number”.

So of course I had to break my own rule!

A bug came up a few hours after ABTheme 4.06 came out. I had caught the bug before and squished it (an annoying CSS issue in Admin under WP 2.5), with the fix added in 4.06.

Unfortunately, that fix …

It took longer than expected (mainly because of other projects), but version 4.06 of the best Search Engine Optimized theme and plugin package for WordPress is ready.

Although most of the work involved tweaks and bugfixes, there is one biggy – from 4.06 on, the ‘rental’ licenses are now inactivate.

When ActiveBlogging first started off, members could use the plugin free as long as they stayed a member – this was done by plugin code polling ActiveBlogging from time to time.

Now, only permanent keys are available, and from …