One Plus to Rule Them All + New Features + Affiliate Program!
Feb 17th in News by Skellie
This week we're adding more value across the board at Envato. On Monday Marketplaces commission rates bumped up to 40% - 70%, and today I'm excited to announce that we're adding triple the value to Plus. As of this post going live, your single Plus membership will now grant you access to every current and future Plus program. So one price for everything!
And to go with the merge and rebranding, we've revamped the Plus interface to make it more usable, complete with search, pagination, reordering and affiliate program letting you earn 25% every month on any referrals you send over! There's no better time to go Plus. Hit the jump to read more about the changes and how they benefit you.
Skellie is Tuts+ Manager. She makes sure all the Tuts+ sites are awesome. You can follow her/the Tuts+ Network on Twitter via @tutsplus.
One Plus, Triple the Value
A single Plus membership is now a skeleton key to the entire Tuts+ network. For $9 per month, or $22 per quarter, you will have access to the Plus membership sites for Psd.tuts+, Vector.tuts+ and, launching Plus tomorrow, Net.tuts+. Your membership will also give you access to any other current or future Tuts+ sites that go Plus.
This change is part of our broader strategy to make Tuts+ and Plus a killer source of vocational training. As our network expands the cost to access Plus for each site will steadily decrease. With three Plus sites and a $9 membership, the cost per month for each site is just $3, and will fall further each time a new Tuts+ site goes Plus!
If you haven't yet made the switch to Plus, there's no better time to do it. You can find out more here. If you've heard enough, you can sign-up here and immediately gain access to all past Plus tutorials and sample files on your exclusive membership site. Your membership also comes with a 100% money-back guarantee on the first month, so there's nothing to lose.
What if I'm a Combo Member?
There's no need to do anything at all. Your 'Combo' membership will be discontinued and no further payments required. Your remaining Plus membership will give you access to Psd.tuts+, Vector.tuts+ and Net.tuts+ so you'll still get all that great Plus content - just without the extra price! Collis is going through every subscription by hand today and tomorrow to cancel all combo packs and refund any combo payments made in the last 30 days so that the last month of access is on us!
A Better Plus Interface
Although the content on Plus has always been stellar, we'll admit we've had a bit of a sub-standard Plus website. Well no more, because along with our rebranding we've got a new and improved Plus system for you to use, take a look at some screenshots:
Earn 25% Monthly on Referrals!
And last but not least, we are officially launching our Affiliate Program today. You'll be able to earn 25% of the monthly payments of any member you refer for the first year. That means as a referrer you can build up a nice, steady, monthly income through a proven product that literally thousands of people use and enjoy. And with today's announcements, that Plus program is even better value for money than ever!
You can grab the full terms and conditions here as well as information on how to sign up, and lots of banners!
Development Stuff!
Finally because lots of our readers are into web development, you may be interested to know how we built the new Plus and Tuts+ sites. Thanks to the hard work of our obscenely talented web dev Derek Herman, the Tuts+ site is in fact three sites meshed together to look like it's just one.
When you first arrive you're looking at a WordPress installation, hooked up with a customized jQuery dashboard homepage based on the Net.tuts+ tutorial Mimic iGoogle. Then when you sign in, you're using a hacked up version of aMember, a PHP membership script you can pick up for $180. AMember provides all the membership, account, and affiliate functionality. Finally once you go to see the Plus content, you're into a third WordPress installation, customized to allow sorting and searching of items (which are actually Posts).
So there you have it, a study in hacking together open source software and off-the-shelf PHP products, then coating it all with a smooth front-end, Tuts+ style :-)
User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Dullface February 17th
Aww yeah! Just got on the site and noticed something was diffrent, stroleld through all the new stuff and then noticed this post. It looks fantastic! Get a hell of a lot ore for your money now!
( )Well done TUTS, If this wont satisfy people, I don’t know what will.
Linus February 17th
Me want free stuff,me be pirate!
( )n@mzo February 17th
looking at this page makes me want to own a plus account.
( )Kuldar Kalvik February 17th
Ooh, nutbolts.. You just might have convinced me to join the plus force..
( )Saro February 17th
Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
( )Lucas Loyola February 17th
WOW! i will be PLUS!
( )geirbnystad February 17th
for this i will expand my plus to one year. just make so much more sence.
( )zerotwozerofour February 17th
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Period.
( )zerotwozerofour February 17th
Oh, and well done!! lol, congrats on the new linky-network-ness of sites, its always been fantastic and now for plus members, its even better! looking forward to the future for you guys, cool to see people with obvious talent do well.
( )j-man February 17th
It would be nice if the logo’s for each subsection on the dashboard were clickable
( )Doda February 17th
Weee! xD
( )donic February 17th
Okay i log in and all i see is files to download and read tutorial, i dont see my Quartely section with the amount and dates.. Is either not there or i am clicking all over and not knowing this new layout, thx.
( )TopFlySecurity February 17th
thats it im signing up now
( )should of done this long time ago but this pushed me over the egde
2tone February 17th
I think is the best idea i,ve never eared ^^
( )Allison February 17th
Awesome! Love the direction and re-brand. All hail the Tuts+ empire!
( )lawrence77 February 17th
hai skellie,
i wish to become a plus member..
and also one doubt about that???
What is the downloading limit per day/month for the users there!??????
meanwhile i love/like your avatar
( )Skellie February 17th
@lawrence77: There’s no download limit at all
Thanks, I like my avatar too. Yours is pretty cute!
( )Skellie February 17th
@donic: Look up the top of the design and you’ll see a ‘Your Account’ button between ‘Dashboard’ and ‘Plus Content’.
( )David February 17th
This is awesome!
Question though: Say you add the files to AE tuts, will there be an additional cost or will it stay at $9?
( )diegooriani February 17th
Quality.
( )idrawdesigns February 17th
I just hope that we will have many free tutorials still, since the “plus” of this site is being more emphasized.
( )Mabuc February 17th
I like it much, love also the re-branding of all tutsite
( )Skellie February 17th
@ David: The membership will always stay at a flat $9 (or $22 per quarter), even when we add other sites — including Ae.tuts+
Eventually it will cost less than $1 per site, per month.
( )Val February 17th
you just made me a very happy girl!!
( )Robak Design February 18th
Yay! More and more goodies from PT! Cant really stop impressing us, dont you?
( )WoW-Sky February 18th
wow, I like it ^^
( )Daltur designs February 18th
Nice, ive been supporting this site for some time now, and this is awsome!! Tnx guys, your site rules!!!
( )Dalton Hurd February 18th
You guys are really coming along! The improvements are definitely worth taking a gander at the whole plus membership deal.
I especially like the fact that you’re so open to your users, that you actually discuss how the new tuts+ was developed.
Great work guys!
( )michael albee February 18th
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
( )nobody February 18th
wow, i have to pay to make your website usable?
( )what’s up with that? I’d rather be paying for content and good quality tuts, not to make your site work in a way that it should already. just my 2 cents
lawrence77 February 18th
thanks skellie!
( )lawrence77 February 18th
hai skellie?
two more doubts?
1. what is the font you used in the logo now as well as previous version?
( )2. where is Collis?
RUGRLN February 19th
Yeeehaa! Now I’m definitely getting me membership after my exams!! Plus, when is FLATUTS starting? Tell me it’s before Summer or atleast in beginning of summer?!?!
( )Matthew Johnson February 19th
It’s amazing how much this company has grown. Cheers!
( )Edd February 19th
Great site , great company i’ve virtually learned designing from here ….keep it real!
( )Isis February 19th
I loved that! I wanna buy a plus membership with “PSDTUTS” + “AETUTS” + “VECTORTUTS” is this possible?
We can customize the packages?
Thanks!!! =)
( )ez2c February 19th
awesome! you guys really rock! I’m so happy to be a subscriber! so excited to know such good news! Thanks, dude.
( )Derek February 20th
@Isis: An Ae.tuts+ subscription does not exist at the moment. Furthermore, all the subscriptions are the same, everyone gets all the content that is available in the plus area for $9/m regardless of which site the content came from. So to answer your question, no you cannot customize the package because there are only two option.
$9 per month
( )- OR -
$22 quarterly (every three months)
John February 20th
I said that before. but the tut plus logo just looks like the flag from switzerland.. Don’t know if that should be like this…
( )Lawrence77 February 20th
now reader avatar is very cool!
skille are you there???
( )you happily answer my first question?
then now you stay quite
Isis February 20th
thanks, Derek!
=)
( )VasanthK February 20th
Im planning to subscribe the tuts, Whether tuts will automatically take money from my account for every month or Payment is with my control
( )Millen February 23rd
Awesome work guys!
( )Chasen February 23rd
I may just be jumping on the “plus” bandwagon now!
( )Nathaniel February 26th
Yup… This is what it took for me to join… Now to wait for my paycheck… (I can’t wait for aetuts+!!)
( )ash April 14th
so coooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll
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