FAQ: Image Voting on our Blog

One of the coolest new features that we just introduced to our blog is the ability for people to interact with our blog by voting for their favorite images. Earlier this week, Erin and I quietly released this feature and our Inbox has officially been bombarded with requests for information about how we did it! And, of course we're all about sharing!

A few months back, Erin and I approached Brian Crouch of Flaunt Books about helping us design a customized plugin for WordPress to allow people to be able to vote on their favorite images. There's a handful of other blogs that have this functionality, but none that were built on the WordPress framework (of which we're HUGE proponents of) and so when we found out that Brian actually had something in the works, we were FLOORED!

The end product of a lot of hard work on Brian's part is a plugin that you can essentially drop right on to of your WordPress blog, and instantly have voting functionality for anybody who stops by your blog. It's SO SIMPLE to set up and customize right out of the box (everything from the voting links, to the text, to the thumbnail sizes, outline colors - everything) and even if you're super technically challenged I think Brian is even offering some hand-held installation for a small fee.

The Plugin is $95 right now, and I happen to have a little inside info that Brian is going to be releasing some killer updates in the next few months, at which point the price is going to go up. So what I'm saying is that if this is something you'd like to do, do it now. Here's a link for more information about the plugin, and I've got two coupon codes for you to use. If you purchase by June 1, you can use the code "Flaunt1" for $10 off, and then I was able to twist Brian's arm to get a special code just for our lovely blog readers - that code is "TheYoungrens" and gets you $20 off. Our code will only work for 10 people, so act quick if you want the $20 off. Once 10 are gone, then I've got no more...

For some examples of the plugin working on our blog, cruise any of our wedding, engagement, or portrait posts to see the voting functionality (it's disabled on posts like this one).