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I just found out that I won the contest I mentioned in my last post.  The prize is a year’s membership at WPMU Dev Premium.  This is great since I was considering buying a membership anyway.  The premium website has very useful plugins that I can use on theindianstartup.com

TheIndianStartup is growing steadily and we hope to hit 150 members soon. We now have several core blogs for startup interviews, startup tools, announcements and press releases etc. and the response from the startup community has been extremely positive.

This website has been an amazing project for me as I went from being a Wordpress newbie, to setting up a full fledged social network with several unique features. The learning process has been tremendous and has been made so much easier by the superb community and the great plugins that are available for free. However, I am fast approaching the extent of what I can achieve with free plugins and support. I could hire a pricey web developer and pay for plugins individually (both hard to do with no revenue stream) but luckily a much better solution is available: WPMU Dev Premium. This is a paid support website for WPMU & Buddypress developers. They also have over 72 premium plugins, & themes (infact they just announced a countdown to their 100th premium offering). Although the monthly charge can be high for amateur developer, the value that they offer is great. I have heard great reviews of their support forums and I look forward to implementing their plugins like AutoBlog and Domain Mapping once I am a member.

I’m glad to inform readers that both Recipe Mobile and its companion Sidekick Blog are now CommentLuv enabled.  I have been considering implementing this great plugin but was concerned that it would attract comments by people just looking to promote their website without adding any value via their comments.  However, in the end, I realized that although it might generate a few junk comments, this is a good way to give back a little to our valuable readers and hopefully generate some good discussions.  Please test it out and I hope you are able to generate some traffic to your own websites by commenting on ours.  I also will be researching a good solution to make the comments of our regular readers ‘dofollow’.

Wordpress celebrity Alex King just sent out a twitter update about the latest beta release of his excellent Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin.  This plugin enables Wordpress blogs to auto-generate a stripped down mobile version when being accessed by mobile browsers. (continue reading…)

Found a new Wordpress plugin TDO Mini Forms, that enables user generated posts.  Ill try it on the Submit-A-Recipe page of RecipeMobile.