Some of you may have noticed that the language on this site has changed over the past few weeks to become slightly less WordPress-centric. If you’ve been watching the code evolve, you’ll also have noticed that the amount of code specific to the WordPress environment has been slowly shrinking. My goal with all of this has been to allow TubePress break free from the restriction of running inside WordPress. Today, with the formal introduction of TubePress Pro, that goal has been reached! With TubePress Pro, you can now get all of the benefits of the TubePress plugin in any PHP environment. Essentially, it’s standalone TubePress!

One thing to note is that I have decided to charge a reasonable fee for TubePress Pro. The donations to TubePress thus far haven’t been quite what I expected, and I hope that you’ll respect my decision to offer this paid product alongside the original. Both the WordPress plugin and TubePress Pro are both 100% GPL‘d, so you’ll always have the source code available to tweak if you like. The WordPress plugin will always been 100% free.

You might be thinking, “Great, another piece of software tacking ‘Pro’ on the end of its name.” I’ve actually put a good amount of thought into what to call this product. I think “Pro” sums up the goals best, as I plan to continue to add features to TubePress Pro that would be of interest to professional bloggers and site administrators (integrated ad support comes to mind).

TubePress Pro shares much of its code base with the original WordPress plugin, so if you’re happy with the TubePress as it is, you can count on me to continue to maintain the code and add features.

If you’d like to try TubePress Pro, head over to the downloads page and give it a try. The TubePress documentation has been updated to show you how easy it is to use.

Thanks, and enjoy!