Balkhis will not run WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”
Finally as I got back to Gainesville, Last night I updated Balkhis to wordpress 2.7, the latest version. WordPress 2.7 is named Coltrane in honor of American Jazz Sexophonist John Coltrane. Coltrane was released on December 11, 2008 far after the planned date which was November 2008. I’d rather have it late then having to update few times after but one bug is still there. The plugin WP-Affiliate is not working with WordPress 2.7. Which was the reason why I downgraded on the first place.
Until I find another alternative for that plugin, I will stay with 2.6.5. There are too many referral links on balkhis that is helping me generate all the revenue from these posts. I can’t afford to lose that because of one update. If you are not using this plugin, then you should definitely use WordPress 2.7. My other sites are upgraded to WP 2.7.
WordPress blog has posted this video that features everything:
Everything that I mentioned in my review is added into this version and some.
I will suggest that you guys check out 20+ Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins.
If you guys know alternative to WP-Affiliate please let me know. You can Download WordPress 2.7 here.
This is an exciting release because of the new look, and I will try to get updated as soon as I can once I figure out the solution to my plugin problem.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Glad to hear you like WP 2.7. After reading this post on it, I’m going to go upgrade now. Kinda excited
I will upgrade my blogspot to wordpress soon too. I am creating my own cms but it sucks!!. And i don’t have time anymore..
I have already had the feel of the WP 2.7 and I plan to upgrade soon. It looks a more loaded and the interface is a bit cramped up, but looks like a great thing to upgrade to.
I have already downloaded 2.7 in my wordpress blog and it is truly amazing – the ease with which I can work and also the speed has been improved dramatically.
is that a paid plugin ?
than you should tell the developer to work on it soon
2.7 rocks.
It is not a paid plugin. It is a free plugin. I am looking for alternatives right now.
hopefully they’ll have a fix for that soon……i’ve largely heard rave reviews for 2.7
im glad you’ve mentioned that issue with wp-affiliate. I use it too to encrypt my links. sadly i don’t know any alternative. the previous ones i used got issues, like alinks…
Ever consider using the Ninja Affiliate Plugin by MaxBlogPress? It does pretty much the same thing as WP-Affiliate, but to me is much better. I use it on all my blogs.
P.S. Good luck on finals man
I love the release. Their new admin design is awesome!
I am sure they will upgrade the plugin soon to make it Coltrane compatible. That we are left to hope of.
I have already upgraded one of my sites and everything works fine, but I don’t use WP Affiliate
It is fairly simple to use and apparently has loads of utility features. I guess, a compatible affiliate plug-in will soon be out for the this version.
Those are some great blogs! A few I hadn’t heard of previously, so I’ll be looking them up later today. Thanks for putting that list together, I know it must have been a lot of work!
Same here.. I am not going for the upgrade as well.
hum… have you ever tried link cloaking? I haven’t tried it with 2.7… but perhaps it isn’t 100% what you need
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/07/28/link-cloaking-plugin-for-wordpress/
You know I am going to try this one, just waiting to find time after final. Have a lot of things to do in my list.
What exactly does this plugin do? The description doesn’t really tell me anything…
“Easy affiliate link masking and more.
Now Featuring:
Commission Junction Search Capabilities!
Click Tracking!”
It sounds like something I’d be interested in, but have already upgraded all my blogs to 2.7…
Syed,
If you like, try our new FREE Performance Marketing plugin for WordPress, which is updated for WP 2.7:
http://www.wpmarketer.com/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmarketer/
Regards,
Steve
Thanks Steve, I will try it
i bit the bullet and upgraded earlier this week — with great trepidation, as i’ve never done an upgrade myself before. i got lucky, and all went well. i’m not using the plugin you mentioned, all the ones i had installed continued working AOK.
my lucky week!
That’s a real shame because 2.7 is great. Good luck finding a different plug-in that works just as well (or hopefully better).
Did you try WP Marketer? On my wp 2.7 it does not work – error 404 when I click an affiliate link…
No man I didn’t try it. I might just stick with what I have for now.