A new forum for 3 column widgetized Anaconda Theme is now open. It is a highly popular free WordPress theme with tons of functionality built-in and a cool look. Looking forward to see you there.

March 3rd is our D-Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website. We will also launch Comment Guard Pro, a WordPress plugin to eliminate comment spam from blogs. We will also formally launch our new forum and customer support site. This is a big big event for us.

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We have opened a forum for all our products and blogs. I haven’t officially announced it yet. Please check it out, register and leave your feedback and comments. Looking forward to hear from you.

Many of us have a distributed work force which often leaves people wondering what others are doing. Twitter is a great service for updating status. Unfortunately twitter if often down these days. Also there is a privacy concern. Ideally you would like to host such a service yourself and also be able to restrict access to the site to ensure privacy.
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This WordPress blog was hacked for few hours on 24th December (nice Christmas present!) from Russia. The hacker exploited several WordPress vulnerabilities in administrative scripts to gain full access to the website (as permitted to apache user), including the ability to upload & run scripts, delete any file owned by apache user, view the file and directories etc. This is a full disclosure on the how the site was hacked and how I detected and removed the hack along with few comments on the state of WordPress security. I added a WordPress plugin and made modifications to prevent any such hacking attempts in future using WordPress. This is a must read for WordPress bloggers.

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WordPress provides you the capability to write an excerpt for your post. A post excerpt is displayed as a summary of the post in front page and archive pages. It is also used in RSS feeds where summary option is enabled.

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 allows automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and above) to maximum of 14 languages (32 languages for Translator Gold). Any blog written in English can be automatically and in real-time translated to Spanish, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, German, French, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Norwegian (optional*) and Arabic. Translator Plugin Pro & Gold (32 language support) are probably the best ethical (white hat seo) means to drastically increase your site content and traffic.

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro & Gold collects and display useful statistics on the functionality of the plugin as well as the intelligent caching engine.

The statistics is available from Translator Plugin Pro Options panel in Basic tab and in Advanced -> Cache Management tab. It is also available for display on your web pages as described below.
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Overview

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 will be released on 13th June.

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Gold (32+1 Language translation) will be released on 13th June. This is a limited edition release. Only 100 copies will ever be released. Each will cost $100. Existing users of ATPP will be offered a discounted price of 80$ for upgrading ATPP to ATP Gold. ATP Gold will come with array of features targeted for popular blogs. Advanced load distribution and load protection measures will be provided.

Please advance book your copies for ATP Gold now by sending me an email ( angsuman [at] taragana [com] ) or commenting on this post to let us know about your intention (your comment may not be published but will be processed). This is a one time release only. Unlimited free upgrades will be provided.

Existing ATPP customers will receive their upgrade within June 30th. We are providing web based access to your plugin which can be downloaded at anytime from our website (url will be released soon). This will be in addition to email based update. In future any upgrades will be on the same date as general release for all existing customers.

Our products have been extensively tested on variety of browsers and operating systems. We test various themes and compatibility with third party plugins. In short we go the whole nine yards to make it a high quality product for you.

Remember with Taragana products (ATPP & ATP Gold) you will get unlimited free upgrades. You will also receive free support for 6 months. In short we will make it work on your blog, we won’t leave you hanging midway as with many open source products. You get what you pay for. Our success is defined by your success and satiisfaction.

Update: Please book your copies now as they are running out fast.