Awesome New WordPress Plugin
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You might have noticed a little update in our blog’s sidebar - a sexy looking, money making wordpress plugin that allows you do auction just about anything you could imagine. We’ve had our old iPod laying around and figured it’d be a perfect fit to use as the first auction we have while using the WPAuctions plugin. Coded and designed by a good friend of ours, who also did our professional blog design, this little gem might prove extremely useful for bloggers like yourselves, looking to make a bit of extra cash. Its fresh off the press so get it while its hot!
Sure, you can use eBay for all your auctions, but they tend to take some sort of commission for using their services. Besides, you can use this plugin to generate some extra traffic to your blog too! This is done by simply downloading the free plugin, slapping it onto your site, create an auction, and register your site on their live auctions page. Everyone that sees an item that might be of interest to them can click on the auction link and will end up on your blog. Yay, another hit!
What we absolutely love is that you can get the widget in your own customized style. Instead of all those ugly premaid widgets that float around the net these days like blogrush and MyBlogLog (sheesh, when did they introduce that monstrous new widget 
) We’ve seen the preview of some styles specifically created for some of the big boys in blogging, but we’re not sure we are allowed to share these with you. For now, you’re gonna have to do with ours. Then again, you could contact them and have a customized one made for yourself today!
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March 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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March 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I had the chance to use the beta version and it worked great! I’ve used it on both my niche blog and my personal blog. I recommend it to everyone. Yours looks really good! Now I’m off to check yours out:)
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March 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Nice plugin. Cool design too, wanna see the Shoemoney one now, assuming there is one given you linked to him…
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March 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
That’s really neat. For small time bloggers it may be more difficult for us to be able to get items bid for and sold.Hopefully, I’ll be able to use it.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
NewsNotion - That’s the whole purpose behind the “Live Auctions” area, so as to help bloggers like you get some additional traffic if your readership itself is not ready to purchase something you are selling.
Try it out, you won’t be disappointed. Plus, we’re still in beta there’s still lots more features to come.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
@Hyder - But how much additional attention is that really?
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March 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 am
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March 3rd, 2008 at 3:05 am
So, how ’bout that international shipping?
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March 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 am
That’s a really neat widget, I like it a lot. I’ll have to think of something to do with it or something to auction. Can you only auction material objects, or online advertising, etc. as well?
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March 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 am
Pretty cool. This could go viral and be pretty big. I’ll do a post about it.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 am
I can’t bid yo. Tried to bid 10 bucks.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 am
Interesting. Wonder if people will start auctioning their ad space. I’m considering buying OIOpublisher, but this could be another option I guess.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 am
Jason, this might compliment OIO, but OIO automates the process, this is something different and you should for sure invest in OIO, well, well worth it IMO
(See it running on my blog)
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March 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
What a coincidence, I just read about this plugin yesterday
-Mike
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March 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
NewsNotion - as it gets adopted more so will we adapt to the needs. It’s a mutual relationship.
Matt - You need to meet the “Starting Bid” price. Otherwise the bid will not be accepted. That’s how auctions work
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
looks like it is a good one as it can be customized. .. you talk about myblog uncustomized i see you have done some customization yourself there
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March 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Very cool little touch to the site and a great way to get rid of some stuff and make some Mooney!
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Nice plugin but $150 minimum? No thanks.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
I like the idea that the widget can be personalized to the site. Looks great.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
That’s a new and innovative way to make money out of your unwanted stuff. I would love to install this widget on my site too.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Great work Hyder. Think this concept will definitely work, waiting to see some ad space being offered by the blog owners out there.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Love the idea behind it, especially the aggregation on the central site. Great work Hyder!
Since someone mentioned OIO….I did wonder whether it might be possible to integrate the 2 apps (for auctioning ad space). I’m presuming that the auction info is stored locally, which would mean that the auction data could trigger OIO to display and manage the ad automatically when the winning bid is finalised.
Only a passing thought though, may not work…
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Simon - Thanks for your comments.
I’m sure we can work something out
March 5th, 2008 at 9:58 am
March 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
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March 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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March 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I’m going to download this and check it out. I couldn’t find any terms for listing in their live auctions. I assume there’ll be limits? For instance, I can’t auction off my liver, can I?
Yours looks good. Hopefully it’s not hard to customize.
Thanks for another great tip!
Jay
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March 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am
[...] I’m working on a video to show you guys how to create a WordPress site and setup the WP-eCommerce plugin so you can quickly get your products online. There is also a new auction plugin for WordPress that I am experimenting with. You can see it in action at John Cow’s website. [...]