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I have released a new version of the datafeed import plugin for WordPress, also known as the Multifeed import plugin for WordPress.

This is a major release, with significant work gone into methods of posting the datafeeds on slower servers which suffered from timeouts under certain circumstances. The plugin now employs a slow posting system with user feedback on its progress through the datafeed file.

I have also re-written the XML support for the plugin, and it now can import XML and RSS into WordPress using the same methods as it did for the CSV files.

This is a significant step forward for the WordPress plugin and increases what the plugin can be used for, as it can now be used as an RSS aggregator plugin for WordPress as well as a datafeed import.

I have also fixed some bugs introduced with the URL masking system which caused problems for special characters in the URLs and in some cases a character encoding issue with some datafeeds and the WordPress post body.

I also have the next version of the plugin nearly ready, this includes support for the ‘All in one SEO’ plugin for WordPress. I have some testing to do on that version and also I have a request that the URL masking be made optional which I am looking into doing.

All versions of the plugin since version 2.0 have been WordPress 3.0 compatible.

I hope to have the next version ready within the next week.

You can view more details about the plugin at the WordPress Datafeed Import Plugins Website

Please keep tuned for an update about the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress.

I have today released a new version of my Datafeed plugin  (also known as Multifeed plugin) for WordPress. This version includes link masking or link cloaking that makes affiliate links more search engine friendly and click tracking to allow you to monitor the click son your links, which are performing well and which are not.

If you are interested in more information about the plugin please go to the Datafeed Import Plugins website.

I have learnt one lesson from this release, that is never do a release when it is late in the day and you are tired. I accidentally uploaded the wrong file to the server and invited thousands of users to come and download it! Soon realised and rectified the mistake but still lesson learned!

You may also be interested to know that I am about to launch a new version of the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress, this has been a major re-write of the plugin which is now packed with features and functionality.

I am also putting out another call for beta testers for my WordPress Advertiser plugin, if you feel that you can help please do contact me either by email or post a comment on this blog.

Over the last 9 months I have been developing two plug-ins for WordPress plug ins. These plugins have been universally praised and far more successful than I had ever imagined they could have been. This has been one of the reasons why I took a break from blogging to dedicate the extra time required to developing these plugins.

As you will be aware I do affiliate marketing in my ‘spare’ time, one of the main issues with affiliate marketing and really the holy grail of affiliate marketing is the ability to rapidly create sites for your to be able to market other peoples products.

Until recently, I have been hand coding sites, and making custom designs for each, this took a great deal of time, time which I did not have, and time which I tended to get bogged down with making my affiliate projects stall before they were really launched.

I decided that there must be a solution so I employed my programming skills into developing a solution for wordpress whcih I could then use as a framework for all my affiliate sites.

The first plugin that I created was the Datafeed import plugin. Initially it was very basic, the ability to have oneaffiliate  datafeed and one template, the plugin then created a post in wordpress for each row in the affiliate datafeed.  Perfect, it allowed me to rapidly create sites in a matter of minutes rather than days.

I could also use other WordPress plugins such as the All in one SEO plugin and use the WordPress themes to make the sites suitable for the products which they contained. They were also fully search-able, menus and categories automatically created, functionality given by WordPress.

I then gave the plugin to another affiliate marketer friend who also found that it was a very useful tool so I decided to put the plugin out on to the open market or people to buy.

Since then I have made the plugin far more advanced, it can handle many datafeeds, each with their own templates, custom fields, advanced filters and automatic updates.

I have created a website for the datafeed import plugin where you can find more details

I then wanted to be able to easily import Amazon products as they are always very high converting affiliate products, so I have created a similar plugin that allows you to import and create posts from Amazon products based on a search term. This works very well and again as with the datafeed plugin I am working on more and more advanced versions of the plugin, the next of which is due to be released in the coming weeks.

Again I have created a website for the Amazon Import Plugin so if you are interested have a look.