We are excited to announce that Carousel for Zazzle Search and Carousel for Zazzle Stores are now both free of any rev-share links!

What does that mean? Previously each thumbnail had a 20% chance of returning our affiliate/contributor link. Now, all earnings are yours! Why? Well simply put, we’ve had so many requests from people who would like to use it, but understandably don’t want to give away a percentage of their sales. They would rather pay a flat fee as a donation.

So we’re giving the people what they want! Now all of our Zazzle products are rev-share free.

But we need to share with you that future development of applications like this are certainly helped along by donations, as are any “free” scripts or plugins created by developers. You’ve heard the line right? “Don’t forget to tip your waitresses, bartenders and developers.” … or something like that.

What do you think?

Our first official plugin released on WordPress reached 65 downloads today, one week after its release.

After a shaky start using the WordPress filing system and two mini-updates later, the Wishads for CafePress Search Plugin is at release 1.1.1 and looks pretty good if we say so ourselves.

This plugin allows you to easily include products from CafePress and sell them as an affiliate. If you are a shopkeeper and have a unique image tag on your designs, you can use this to promote your products.

If you’ve had a chance to download and use the plugin, we’d love to see it in action. Drop us an email with the location of your blog!

We’d also like to see some ratings of the plugin at WordPress if you’ve downloaded it. We can take it.

But most importantly, what do you want to see next? Send us an email or post in our support forum. We’ll also be dropping some hints and tips there for how to customize your plugin with CSS. If you’ve hit any bugs or error messages, let us know about them so we can tackle them head-on. There are many different combinations of hosting, php versions, wordpress versions and wordpress themes, and we want to make the plugin work for as many as possible.

screenshots after the break:

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