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An 11+ minute demo video? IMO it's a tad long, should be between 1-3 mins.

Also, perhaps the screenshots need captions explaining what they are? E.g. what's with the one of the faded out garden and the highlighted flower bush. I don't get its significance or what it is trying to show.

Then again I'm not your target market. Otherwise nice work.

That was my first recorded video and I preformed badly. Also it needs to be updated since the product has changed a lot from that version. The same for the photos. Thanks for remembering me of them :)

Looks pretty cool. Also agree with the video comment, I think you could cut it by at least half. With almost any video editing program you can add a voice-over track, that way you can retry as much as you want if you mess up.

Also wouldn't hurt to cut out the parts of the video where your internet dies, if not for time at least to make it seem more professional.

I started working on this in the summer. I built a photo tagging script with jQuery, which was simple and limited (ImgTag). I then built a tags editor (FotoTag) to make it possible to tag photos with ease without needing to enter coordinates or to mess with JSON. The few buyers have suggested that I would better make some Server Side interface for it.

So I went and I built WP-FotoTag. I moved ahead and made significant changes to the tagging engine, so now you can style the tags yourself with JavaScript and CSS. You can even do more by saving data with tags that can be accessed later through an API.

I'm looking for a review about the product itself, the execution, the demo website, default styles... I would like also to hear your suggestions and critics. Thanks.

What is the market like for paid WordPress plugins? I recently developed my first WordPress plugin and was under the impression that the price point for just about anything is 0 from all the expectations built around the ecosystem. I think it's great that you're charging though.

Since this is not open source, is this listed in the WordPress.org directory?

Indeed, there is a market. It's not huge, but it has some potential. Look at this page (http://codecanyon.net/category/plugins/wordpress?sort_by=sal...) and you'll find out that the top selling plug-in made over $45K in sales in less than one year.

Certainly not all plug-ins sells that much, but having been in CodeCanyon and ThemeForest for a while, I learned that people pay for "Premium". Premium is when you don't find something like it in the Open Source world.

It has to be open source (at least the PHP code). Not that I agree with it, but they (WP guys) consider plugins and themes derivated from WordPress.

As far as the market, it is hughe, but not very friendly to paid stuff...

Something that might be neat is if you could embed the JS part of the plugin into the product page so that people could play around with it on some pre-defined images to get a feel for how it works.

Nice stuff! I'd definitely find this useful in building my webapps (outside my wordpress blog).

Found a broken link: http://wpflickt.com/fototag/image_styles

It's not intended to have a link there, but the menu required one. I'll make a page though, were I gather all of the styles.

Cool, but I think price is a little high.

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