Staying in touch with your members is important. That’s why we’ve added a News feature to the new version of webDate. The News feature allows you to easily post announcements or news articles with the click of a button.

If you’re running the multilanguage version of the software, you can select the language the article is written in. Pick a title for the news post, along with a date to publish it, and use the WYSIWYG editor to write the body of the article. It’s as simple as that! Post as often as you’d like, and manage your postings any time.

Making your site interactive is very important in keeping your members busy and coming back. It also helps greatly in converting non-paying members to paying members. webDate 4.0 will have a new Polls feature which will allow you as the administrator to create new polls for your site.

The Polls feature will allow you to create an unlimited number of polls, and easily see the results on the frontend. Simply add a new question, and up to 10 answers for the polls. You can enable/disable polls on the fly, and restrict voting to registered members or all visitors including guests. Poll results will be visible to your members on the frontend of the software.

We have been actively working on a new version of our webDate dating software, with all of the features coming from customer requests. We’re really excited to be nearly completed and in the final testing phases, and hope that you’ll love the new features! Thanks to everyone that submitted their suggestions.

Now, for the first big change in the software: search engine friendly URLs. We’ve had a lot of customers asking to add this feature to help search engines crawl their sites easier, and index all of the pages including user profiles. Search engines normally have trouble crawling dynamic pages. Normally, in webDate, a URL would look something like: index.php?page=search. Search engines see this as a dynamic page, and ignore parts of the URL. As a result, they do not do a deep crawl of the site. With the search engine friendly URLs feature, the software will rewrite the URLs to look something like: index/page/search instead. This looks like a static URL, and is crawled by search engines much easier.

Getting ranked in search results is tough, but the more content that is indexed the better your chances or ranking higher in the most popular search engines. This is a great feature to help you do that, and we hope you like it!

We are proud to announce the release of the highly anticipated webDate 3.0!  We’ve taken a lot of suggestions from our clients, and built the new features based on your input. As always, we’d love to hear what you think, and keep the suggestions coming!

Below is a list of features implemented in 3.0.

Frontend

• Revamped template system for easier site layout modifications
• Blog system
  • Members can create new blogs
  • Users can view other members’ blogs
  • Users can post comments to each blog post
  • Blog links are available in each members’ profile
• SMS messaging support
• Thumbnail photo sizing support
• New profiles page that displays all recently registered members
• Added promotional code support for payments
• Various code and database optimizations to allow your site to run smoothly with even more members
• New payment gateway integrated: Plug ‘n Pay
• Various bug fixes in the frontend

Backend

• Completely revamped administrative area. Improved look and feel, and fast navigation
• Compatible with PHP 5
• System health monitor to show you if anything is broken with your site
• Quick link navigation to easily get to commonly used features such as approving profiles, searching, and viewing your billing history
• Improved search. Easily search for your members by username, real name, or email address
• Improved browsing capabilities to easily browse through your entire member database
• Various code improvements to allow you to complete your administration faster
• Trial period improvements. You can now give free trials based on the gender. Let women in for free and force men to pay, or give trial periods to everyone just like before
• Improved spam protection. Limit the number of messages members can send per day
• Improved site protection. Ban specific IP addresses or IP ranges from accesing your site
• Improved software licensing. License key can be automatically generated as before, or manually downloaded from our site, not requiring url_fopen to be enabled in PHP
• New localization settings. Select from a number of predefined date/time formats to use throughout your site, set the time offset to match your timezone, and change the currency symbol
• Add new SMS providers that aren’t already listed
• Censored words list can now be applied to internal mail and IM’s
• Easily administrate blogs
• Improved profile editing for easier use
• Improved member cleanup to select specific date range for which to remove members
• Improved billing banagement
• Added HTML email support for newsletters, as well as a mass mail feature which will not time out with a large database