When you receive visitors from mobile devices (smartphone or tablet) they will be presented with a mobile-friendly version of your original PHP Melody site. The user can play videos, read articles, post comments and experience your site in a pleasant form, suited for the mobile experience.

Here are three main reasons why you might like to use Mobile Melody alongside your existing PHP Melody site:

1) Reach new audiences which prefer to use an iPad for entertainment and browsing the web
2) Accommodate the insanely growth rate in mobile traffic
3) Increase your ad revenue

We invite you to discover more about Mobile Melody, see the screenshots and the advantages of using this plugin.

For a live demo, grab your smartphone or tablet and visit: http://phpmelody.mobi/

Yes, the release date has been pushed back for various reasons but in the end we’re very happy with the finished product.

Mobile Melody will “mobify”  hundreds (hopefully thousands) of PHP Melody websites overnight. If you’re not sure what Mobile Melody is, please read this previous announcement.

There’s no reason to wait until next week because you can get acquainted with Mobile Melody right now. Grab the nearest smartphone or tablet and type: http://phpmelody.mobi/

Hope you like what you see

Enjoy Mobile Melody and most importantly, we wish you a great weekend!

This November, you’ll be able to do just that: go mobile with your PHP Melody site. No longer will iPad/iPhone users get frustrated when visiting your site from their couch or worse, from their…

Mobile Melody allows mobile fanatics to view your videos, and basically do everything they can do now on your site: sign up, register, comment, search and so on.

At this time Mobile Melody works great with Youtube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, BlipTV, mov, 3gp, mp4 and even mp3 files. Others will soon follow once they start offering HTML5 alternatives to their content.

Ok, so let’s review and get into the specifics:

• Mobile visitors can now play your videos on the go. No more Flash vs. iOS problems.
• Seamless installation, zero hussle (just upload and go).
• Highly customizable.
• Polished interface. Looks and works real nice.
• Lightweight. Uses Ajax to retrieve extra content and other tricks.
• Works great on tablets too. Content is re-sized and optimized for tablets automatically.
• Earn more money with small AdSense banners – or AdSense Mobile (CTR on mobile sites is crazy high).
• Plays well with any 1.6.x release. You don’t need the latest PHP Melody to use Mobile Melody.

While Mobile Melody is still work in progress, we just wanted to let you know that mobile is happening. Mobile Melody will become available some time after the 15th of November.

One more thing worth mentioning is a brand new, upcoming update for PHP Melody with features excursively suggested by the community.

Thanks!

UPDATE – Sneak Preview – Preview the upcoming Mobile Melody.
Available on December the 15th

Hope you’ve enjoyed a nice week so far. I bet all iPhone owners (me too!) are running iOS5 by now, so that’s nice.
Now, I suggest we move forward and do something productive for a change.

We’ve just released PHP Melody 1.6.7 and I want to share with you some of the changes.

Let’s start with the improvements and bug fixes:

• Fixed the database backup procedure
• Fixed problems in mp4 and flv uploading
• Fixed username renaming issue
• Fixed ‘private article’ preview page
• Fixed vulnerability issue where moderators can make themselves admins
• Fixed the MegaVideo thumbnail issue
• Updated installer
• Updated phpmailer class included
• Improved number formating for more readable data
• Caching of categories for reduced MySQL load and increased speed
• Video chart optimization
• + a few other minor issues

And now, here are the new features:

• You can now check the status of your locally hosted videos
• Multi-level categories (e.g. sub-sub-sub categories)
• Select multiple categories when adding or importing videos
• Testing option for the email settings (many customers had problems adding an email account)
• RSS with thumbnail image support
• Video sitemap generator
• Better audio playback with cool visualisation effects
• JW Player with the following improvements:
  • Time indicator in the time slider (for accurate skipping)
  • Related videos are displayed on PAUSE on once the video finished playing
  • Skin support with 19 pre-loaded skins to choose from
• New translations: Slovak, Polish and improved Arabic
• New video sources: izlesene.com, vidivodo.com, mynet.com and videobb.com

That wraps it up!

Thank you for your time and for your continued support. We hope you’ll enjoy this release.

You’ll make us very happy if you share your thoughts in the comments, on FaceBook or in our Forums.

Here are a few quick links:

• Complete list of new features and bug fixes/improvements
• Demo for PHP Melody 1.6.7
• Download the full 1.6.7 package, the update packages or templates
• Buy a PHP Melody 1.6.7 license (get a free bonus)
• See PHP Melody templates with the new live preview

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Please Note: We do NOT recommend upgrading a production installation of PHP Melody directly.
Please backup all your files and database before upgrading. If you’re using a premium PHP Melody template you need to download and install the latest version of your template from the Customer Area.

So, what’s new in this release?

Well, there are a couple of things we’re glad to share with you right now:

• Infinite levels of subcategories
• Videos can now be assigned to multiple categories
• Video sitemap generator
• JW Player skin support with 19 pre-loaded skins to choose from
• Email settings tester (to ensure your mail settings are working)
• New video sources
• New translations

These are just the new features we’ve added to PHP Melody. There’s also a list of things we improved and bugs we sorted out from the current version.
We want to send a sincere “THANK YOU!” to all those involved in submitted bug reports and helping us make PHP Melody a better video cms.

While this isn’t a head-spinning release, we strongly recommend you upgrade from 1.6.6 to this new release solely for the improvements and bug fixes.

As soon as PM 1.6.7 becomes available, we will send emails to all our newsletter subscribers, post announcements on our Facebook Fan Page and in our forums.

Thank you and stay tuned!