[wp-edu] Alternatives to post indexer (WPMU-DEV) for multisite

[Covello, Steve]

Ronnie -

I am glad to hear that you are reconsidering your pricing model.

I have had a number of heated exchanges with individuals at WPMU about the quandary you put small independent WP developers like myself in by forcing me (and by association, my small clients) to subscribe to blanket access to all of your products in order to access just ONE plugin. Specifically, I needed a plugin to clone template blogs in a multisite environment and I ended up going to a competitor of yours because their pricing model was in alignment with every other commercial plugin vendor. Yes, I am aware of the support component, but I have never had a problem with support with other commercial vendors.

I feel very strongly about WPMU making their plugins available a la carte. WPMU benefits from the opensource culture of improvement, feedback, innovation, and instant implementation in the market. Your pricing model, however, is more like a cable TV system (which has its plusses and minuses, depending on whether you want ESPN or not). This is fine if there are no other alternatives with different pricing models. Unfortunately for WPMU, there are a slew of alternatives and I suspect you may get drowned out of the market in the long run much like SONY did with Betamax vs. VHS, event though Betamax was a far superior product.

Thank you for listening.

Thx – Steve

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Steve Covello
Rich Media Specialist/Online Instructor
Granite State College
603-513-1346
Skype: steve.granitestate
Scheduling: http://meetme.so/stevecovello




From: Ronnie Burt <burtrw at gmail.com<mailto:burtrw at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>>
Date: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:47 AM
To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>>
Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Alternatives to post indexer (WPMU-DEV) for multisite

Hi Dave,

I work for WPMU DEV (and sister company Edublogs) and we're happy to help here.

We do have a yearly option, though it may be harder to find as we're in the middle of changing our pricing structure.

For any university or school interested, one year is $419 and you'd be grandfathered in forever at this pricing. This includes all 100+ of our premium plugins, access to our support team, and community (where quite a few folks from universities hang out).

If interested, feel free to let me know and I'll get you all setup. We can handle it through PO's/checks offline so you don't have to use the automated system if that helps you out.

Thanks!

Ronnie Burt
Director of Operations
Edublogs | WPMU DEV | Incsub

Timezone: Austin, TX (UTC/GMT -6 hours)
Twitter: @ronnieburt


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Bill Dennen <dennen at gmail.com<mailto:dennen at gmail.com>> wrote:
David,

We're using this:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/

It's free… and works pretty well. I'm not sure it does comments, though.

-Bill


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Tatem, David <David.Tatem at trincoll.edu<mailto:David.Tatem at trincoll.edu>> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am finally doing an overdue update of our WordPress multisite install
> (http://commons.trincoll.edu) and realize our old version of Post Indexer
> (comment indexer as well) is no longer working.
>
> This is a paid plugin from WPMU-DEV. WPMU-DEV only offers a $99 month
> subscription which is a bit steep. We do use a number of their plugins and
> themes though.
>
> 2 questions for the list:
>
> 1.       Do you subscribe to WPMU-DEV and do you feel it is worth the cost?
>
> 2.       Do you know of any free or cheap alternatives to Post Indexer to
> create a stream of recent posts across your network?
>
> Thanks
>
> dave
>
>
>
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