A few days ago, Ray from prMac e-mailed me asking if I was interested in press releases. New to the whole concept, Ray guided me through the process, and eventually convinced me to register. prMac is a distribution source for developers to get their latest software pieces out there, with the aide of agencies. They offer three types of installation. The first is a plug-in for Drupal, Wordpress or Expression Engine. I tried this and it worked perfectly. New articles are delivered straight to your inbox and are ready to be posted.
However, I chose to go with the section option to split Have Another Apple into articles and press releases. This option is the ’standalone’ version. As wordpress has it’s own way of setting up and viewing content - it was not easy to adapt. However, Ray was constantly available through e-mail and guided me until we got it up and running. However, if you are planning on using the standalone version for a normal, non-blog site, then you will find the standalone version as simple as editing a line of code, uploading it, chmod to 777 and style it if you wish. The third option is framework, for those who have developed their own CMS and wish to incorporate prMac.
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Once as you have it set up - it’s all up to the developers. If you use the blog plugin, you can set it to either automatically post new releases, or have it set to a draft where you manually add them later. This allows you to be in control of what content is being released on your site.
The support from prMac, in particular Ray, is truly amazing and allows you to ask any questions with the piece of mind of having a response less than an hour later. If you decide to add this feature to your site, I can almost guarantee that you will have it set up and running either yourself or with the help of prMac support in a very short time frame. Another bonus with prMac is that you decide which categories you wish for your releases to come from.
You can register at prMac as a Member, to post your new software releases and have it automatically posted on a wide range of sites; or as an Agency, to allow you to add the distributions to your own site; or finally as an alert, so you can be simply reminded yourself when a new distribution is released.
You can take a look at our own Press release page here, or click the link in the navigation.
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