Recently I got the pleasure of being on the Oh So Pinteresting podcast talking about the Pinterest “Pin It” button WordPress plugin. Cynthia Sanchez asked a lot of good questions about the plugin, how people are using it, and what plans are for it in the future. Listen to the Pinterest podcast episode here (or go [...]
Continue Reading →Hover “Pin It” Button Features Added
The hover “Pin It” button part of the plugin has a few new useful features in the latest “Pin It” Button Pro 2.2.0 release including: Place the hover button in any of the 4 corners of images. Use any of the 30 included button designs for the hover button. They can be different from your [...]
Continue Reading →Affiliate Program Added
We just added an affiliate program for the “Pin It” Button Pro WordPress Plugin. Right now you can earn a 35% commission. Just head on over to the affiliate site and sign up. It should be pretty simple to get started referring folks to the plugin through your site, email or social sharing. Affiliate Program Sign Up [...]
Continue Reading →Pin Counts from Pinterest Down (December 2012)
Update: Looks like it’s fixed! It’s been since May that the service from Pinterest to provide pin counts has been down for a lengthy amount of time, but I’ve noticed it’s been down for at least a few hours. Whether you’re using our plugins or custom embed code, the count isn’t appearing for anyone at [...]
Continue Reading →“Pin It” Button Pro Now Available
The “Pin It” Button Pro WordPress plugin is now available for purchase! Among the new features include 30 custom buttons, added social sharing buttons, and the ability to set featured images to be pinned. We hope you find it useful. And as always let us know what other features you’d like to see added. Read [...]
Continue Reading →Pin Counts from Pinterest Down (May 2012)
Update 5/30/2012 3:40PM PST: Looks like the pin count is working again, at least for the time being. Both plugins good to go as well as the Pin Count Tool. Previously… Well it’s been 2 days now and the pin count coming from Pinterest is not working…anywhere. Here’s what I posted in the support forums: [...]
Continue Reading →Top Pinned Posts WordPress Plugin Now Available
I’m excited to announce the launch of a brand new plugin! I’m calling it Top Pinned Posts. It’s dead simple. For every one of your posts and pages it goes out to Pinterest and totals up your site’s pins. And it’s done twice a day automatically behind the scenes. If you want, you can go refresh the [...]
Continue Reading →Pinterest Bookmarklet Update May 2012
Recently Pinterest made a few changes to their bookmarklet, which in turn affects my “Pin It” button plugin’s popup if the button style “user selects image” is selected. I noticed three major changes to the popup window: When hovering over each thumbnail, a white “Pin It” button appears. Images less than 150 pixel height or width [...]
Continue Reading →Pin Count Tool Launched
Need to quickly get a pin count for a few websites or posts? Check out the new Pin Count Tool It’s not a WordPress plugin, but one is in the works that gives you a pin count per post among other things. Join the mailing list to be updated when it’s ready. Note that Pinterest currently counts [...]
Continue Reading →Pin Count Bubble Added (and more)
Version 1.3.0 of the “Pin It” button plugin is here! And it has a Pin Count bubble! If you didn’t already see the update in your WordPress dashboard, just search for “Pin It Button” on your plugins page. Make sure you grab the one by me (pderksen) with “Pin It” in quotes. Someone else cooked up a plugin with the [...]
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