Entries Tagged 'WordPress' ↓

Using Google AdSense on your blog? Probably! AdSense seems to be everywhere these days. Everyone is blending their text ads using the same color palette producing similar and sometimes exactly the same ads resulting in a new form of ad blindness. A new site (established Dec. 2006) called adClustr is offering free innovative ad [...]

Using WordPress for e-commerce? Or, just adding purchase or sponsor links to your post? Then, you need the Textlink Adder Plugin. Adding a plain text link in the middle or at the bottom of a post is just not eye-catching enough for someone quickly scanning through your page. Deep-linking only works if a visitor [...]

Are you using the Related Posts (aka, Related Entries) Plugin? If not, you should! As much as we would like to think that blog visitors are interested in anything we write, the majority of visitors are looking for something specific. And, unless you’re lucky enough to be one of the top 10-20 bloggers, most [...]

It’s time to upgrade your WordPress blog yet again with the recent security release for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress. If you have several installations like I do, this news means quite a bit of work. You must download the new version, unpack it, delete the old files, upload the new files, [...]

One quirk of WordPress (starting at version 2.1) is the interaction between the ‘more’ tag and the RSS feed. Even if you choose ‘Full Text’ under Syndication Feeds | Reading Options and then use the ‘more’ tag, your post gets cut off after the tag. There are no options to disable this ‘feature’. Why is this [...]

Amazon (AMZN: 72.00 +0.78%) has just announced beta release of contextual PPA links. Dubbed ‘Context Links‘, the new feature will automatically identify and link relevant phrases within page content to Amazon products. Setup is via the Associates admin panel, Associates Central->Build Links->Context Links. After you embed one simple JavaScript in your pages (usually placed [...]

Yet another security release for WordPress. The new version includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. Due to the possible security issue, all WordPress users are urged to upgrade to the newest version. This time around upgrading is a bit easier. Especially, if you are [...]