We’ve had quite a few inquiries since launching WPtouch Pro about the possibility of having an affiliate program. While we’re still a few weeks away from launching, we wanted to let people know a few of the details and also get a list of people who are interested in being a part of it.

A few of the relevant details of the program are:

• The affiliate program is only available to WPtouch Pro customers
• The commission rate is 20% for all new WPtouch Pro purchases – upgrades are not eligible
• Commissions will be paid out once per month on all outstanding balances of $50 or more via PayPal – other payment methods are not available

For more information and to sign up to be notified when the affiliate program is released, please visit the main WPtouch Pro affiliate page.

We released WPtouch 2.0 about 6 weeks ago now, and have constantly been improving it since day one. In fact, since that time we’ve added or improved over 100 features — you can take a look at the change log.

We’re currently in the process of revamping our product information pages to reflect some of these new changes, but I thought now would be a good time to overview where we are with the product.

New Features

Version 2.0.7 was a substantial update, adding a whack of new customizations options (colors, fonts, etc.) for the Classic theme. We also added a Backup/Restore function to aid 5-pack and development package users, many of which can save time by using this feature to Backup on one site, and Restore on another. We also improved the WPtouch Pro warning system — if you have a plugin that may interfere with WPtouch Pro, we show a warning message so you can learn more about it and possibly fix it. In addition, we’ve been active in our Pro support forums, helping users sort out issues in short order.

Internationalization

WPtouch Pro has been fully internationalized since day one. Our plan has always been to translate our Pro series plugins into as many languages as possible. Truthfully, I love seeing WPtouch in another language — I was like a kid in a candy store when WPtouch Pro was translated into Japanese.

WPtouch Pro is currently available in eight languages: Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, and Dutch. The plugin will automatically detect what language WordPress is configured to use and emulate that, or the language that WPtouch Pro will use can be selected from the WPtouch Pro administration panel.

Developer Package

WPtouch Pro also has a developer package, complete with online development documentation. If you’re a development package user, you’ll have access to architecture information, plugin hooks and filters, and various code examples for tweaking the plugin.

WPtouch Pro is a full mobile development framework, capable of being used to customize the look and feel for any mobile device at the code level. Some of our users are using it to do iPad development, some are doing custom integrations with their own iPhone applications. Because WPtouch Pro is GPL, the sky is really the limit for what some of these projects may ultimately become — we’re anxiously awaiting to see the results, as some of them are going to be pretty exciting.

Going Forward

We’re currently working on our 2.0.8 release, which will probably be out late next week. We’re also working hard on finishing off the upgrade system for those users that are looking to upgrade between packages (we’ve actually had quite a few inquiries about this recently). Hopefully within a week or so users will be able to automatically upgrade their packages.

Our 2.1 release will be a fairly important update, and we’re looking forward to starting to work on that. If you’ve already purchased WPtouch Pro, you’ll automatically receive 2.1 when the times comes. If you’re interested in grabbing a copy now, head on over to the WPtouch Pro page and pick one up.

Thanks again to everyone who has supported WPtouch Pro and BraveNewCode – we have many more great things to add to the product, so hop aboard the train and come along for the ride!

For those of you who haven’t seen some of WPtouch 2.0’s new capabilities in action, I thought I’d do up a short video overview some of the front-end additions like web-app mode, new comments features support, and the drop-down menu.

You can also watch the video in higher resolution on YouTube.

We’re happy to announce Jessica Beck as the winner of our 32GB iPod touch and WPtouch Pro 5-Pack contest!

If you’re the winner we’ll contact you via e-mail or through Twitter. Once we get your address info we’ll mail out the iPod touch today, and setup your WPtouch Pro 5-Pack license.

Here’s Jessica with her iPod touch!

Ms. Beck and her new iPod touch courtesy of us!

How We Chose The Winner

We counted up and numbered all the comments on this post and the re-tweets on Twitter for the contest and entered them into this random number picker to get our winner.

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest, especially those who shared their stories about BraveNewCode and experiences with WPtouch, WPtouch Pro and WordTwit, our WordPress plugins.

We’ll be having more contests as we go along, so stay tuned to BraveNewCode on our blog, Twitter, and Facebook pages.

Best,
The BraveNewCode Team

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of BraveNewCode, something we’re very happy to say. When we started out Duane and I had no idea how any of this would turn out, and its been a ride and a blur in the past few years, and all of it worth it!

When we started out working on web projects, our pet project at the time came from a one-off plugin we used on a MatthewGood.org site re-design which included a mobile theme for Apple’s iPhone.

It was what would become WPtouch.

Originally we just wanted a cool theme to show on Apple’s then new iPhone, and soon it became apparent that others were interested in it for their own sites. Both Duane and myself have always been WordPress fanatics, and we wanted to give back to the community that we loved so much, so we offered WPtouch and other plugins like WordTwit and Earth Hour to show some love while we worked on client website projects.

WPtouch has grown a lot and changed a lot since then, and so too has BraveNewCode. We’re better coders and designers. We use better tools and strive for higher achievements. With WPtouch Pro we wanted to take things to the next level and do some pretty awesome stuff, so we knew we’d have to charge a little to invest the kind of time and dedication we know the project deserves. So far the response has been positive, and we thank all our current customers for supporting us and the WPtouch project.

So with all of that said, as BraveNewCode turns 2 we’re offering a nice giveaway to mark it, and make a lucky someone out there happy with a shiny new iPod touch + a WPtouch Pro license… free!

The Contest

To mark our anniversary and celebrate the recent release of WPtouch Pro, we’re giving away a new iPod touch and a 5-Pack WPtouch Pro license!

The lucky winner of our contest will receive:

• One 3rd Generation 32GB Apple iPod touch ($329 CAD value)
• One WPtouch Pro 5-Pack License ($59 CAD value)

How To Enter

To enter the contest you should:

1. Leave a comment on this post letting us know what you like about WPtouch or BraveNewCode
2. Retweet this post by Tweeting the following, “I just entered to win a free 32GB iPod touch + WPtouch Pro for @bravenewcode’s contest, check it out: http://bit.ly/dcKLcS #wptouch” – Click here to retweet now

We’ll add up all the comments and the retweets on Thursday, July 15th and pick a winner at random. We’ll mail out the iPod Touch to the winner at our expense and activate a new shiny license of a WPtouch Pro 5-Pack for them!

Good luck!
~The BraveNewCode Team

Rules and Stuff:

Today we’re proud to announce the immediate availability of the major upgrade to WPtouch, WPtouch 2.0 Pro. WIth over 100 new features, a brand new admin panel and more themes available soon, WPtouch Pro is the best rich-mobile theme solution for WordPress websites.

Competitively priced at an incredible value, WPtouch Pro represents intense dedication over the past 3+ months between Duane Storey and Dale Mugford, co-founders of BraveNewCode.

60,000 lines of code with blood, sweat and love were poured into every aspect of the plugin, making it one of the most comprehensive, powerful, modular and easy-to-use WordPress plugins ever made.

Highlights

With more power and customization than ever before, WPtouch 2.0 Pro provides WordPress website owners a flexible mobile theming tool, while offering visitors a rich, fast and polished mobile web experience.

Web-App Mode

Offer your iPhone and iPod touch users a full-screen, AJAX-powered experience when they bookmark your site to their home screens. A first for WordPress mobile themes, WPtouch 2.0’s Web-App Mode automatically converts all local website links to load inside its fullscreen view, without any additional setup or configuration!

And just like native apps on iPhone and iPod touch, you can create and apply your own branded loading screen image that will display while your site fires up in Web-App Mode… sexy!

You can try out Web-App Mode right here on BraveNewCode.com.

Internationalized

WPtouch Pro comes ready with translations into Italian, German, French, Japanese and Spanish, and new languages like Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and more will be added over upcoming release updates.

Discussion On The Go

In WPtouch 2.0, the full WordPress commenting system is supported. Paginated comments, inline replies and threading all work simply and beautifully. Your desktop theme comment settings are automatically transformed within WPtouch, with no extra setup required.

Coming soon: Intense Debate and Disqus commenting plugin systems will be supported, too, offering more native commenting WordPress power in a mobile experience than anywhere else.

Now Playing: Your Own Mobile Theme

WPtouch 2.0 offers some great theme experiences out-of-the-box, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Our Development Guru Duane Storey has painstakingly planned out a mobile theming framework underneath that provides flexible, time-saving power for theme creators looking to take WPtouch Pro to the next level.

Leverage the included Skeleton template to customize your theme, or of you’re a developer customer build one from scratch, harnessing the Developer Docs available to build your masterpiece.

All of BraveNewCode’s own WPtouch 2.0 themes are based on the very same Skeleton template included with every copy of WPtouch Pro.

Powerful Administration

The WPtouch Pro admin panel is as polished and pretty as the themes it drives. We’ve re-designed the plugin’s admin panel and packed a slew of new features into it.

From the drag and drop page/icon management to the easy to use theme browser/manager, to the new WPtouchboard overview, the WPtouch Pro admin panel might just be the best ever created for a WordPress plugin.

What You Get

For just $29 (CAD):

• A single-domain upgrade and support license for WPtouch Pro
• Re-download the plugin at any time by logging into bravenewcode.com/support
• As WPtouch Pro is GPL, you can modify, tweak or remix the code how you see fit
• Upgrades through all 2.x releases!
• Automatically receive any new free themes we add that ship with WPtouch 2.x
• Direct, professional support from the BNC team for the plugin (excludes custom theme support)
• Access to Knowledge Base articles, and User Docs
• One helluva cool plugin!

For just $59 (CAD):

• A 5-Pack of domain licenses for upgrades and support with WPtouch Pro
• Re-download the plugin at any time by logging into bravenewcode.com/support
• As WPtouch Pro is GPL, you can modify, tweak or remix the code how you see fit
• Upgrades through all 2.x releases!
• Automatically receive any new free themes we add that ship with WPtouch 2.x
• Direct, professional support from the BNC team for the plugin (excludes custom theme support)
• Access to Knowledge Base articles, and User Docs
• One helluva cool plugin!

For just $199 (CAD):

• Unlimited domain licenses for upgrades and support with WPtouch Pro
• Re-download the plugin at any time by logging into bravenewcode.com/support
• As WPtouch Pro is GPL, you can modify, tweak or remix the code how you see fit
• Upgrades through all 2.x releases!
• Automatically receive any new free themes we add that ship with WPtouch 2.x
• Direct, professional support from the BNC team for the plugin
• Access to Knowledge Base articles, and User Docs
• Access to Developer Docs, function reference, PSD templates, resources
• Custom theme support and guidance
• One helluva cool plugin!

To learn more about these packages or to pick up your own copy of WPtouch Pro, please visit the WPtouch Pro product page.

If you have any product questions, feel free to leave a comment here.
~The BraveNewCode Team

Photo by Rebecca Bollwitt

WordCamp Vancouver is finally coming to a close. We’re here in Granville at the Tap Room, taking in the social. It’s been a long day again, and Duane and I will burn some midnight oil trying to put the finishing touches on WPtouch 2.0 Pro tonight and tomorrow.

What a pleasure to be a part of an event where attendees, organizers, speakers and sponsors all so elegantly carried out a tremendous conference and shared their passion for WordPress.

Thanks to organizers Rebecca Bollwitt, John Bollwitt, Duane, Kulpreet Singh, John Biehler for their work in organizing the event.

Today we’ve tagged WPtouch Pro Beta 2 for release. Below you’ll find the release notes accompanying it.

Known Deficiencies

These are things which we know either don’t work or haven’t been added yet:

• Disqus and Intense Debate issues (these plugins will be supported later)
• Current themes are feature/styling incomplete
• Page/Menu area in admin has some inconsistencies across different browsers

Focus Areas for Testing:

• Admin functionality, performance, usability
• Automatic upgrade process
• WordPress 3.0
• Web-app mode in Classic and Skeleton

Changelog:

• Fixed: Garbled tooltips on translated multibyte characters such as Kanji
• Fixed: Plugin information overlay would die on other plugins
• Fixed: Tooltips with double quotations in them
• Fixed: Warning for htmlspecialchars on PHP4
• Fixed: Incorrect icons on custom templates such as Archives and Links
• Changed: Settings architecture for admin
• Changed: Tooltips appearance in admin
• Changed: Style fixes for Skeleton
• Changed: Header menu, icon style changes for Skeleton for better cross-browser compat
• Changed: Some admin form buttons switched to divs for Ajax purposes
• Changed: Switch link appearance on desktop theme is now bigger, bolder
• Added: Full translations for Japanese, Spanish, French, and Italian. German translation is still partial
• Added: Ability to render a custom WPtouch setting
• Added: Ajax submit for admin panel
• Added: Web-app mode in Skeleton, Classic (including loading image)
• Added: Theme settings tab for web-app mode, status-bar color option
• Added: New functions for iPhone meta tags in theme header.php, now handled by a theme function
• Added: Custom “dark” class for the body for custom page templates
• Removed: Unused beta code, functions from core files