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Show More Adsense Ads on Long Posts
I'm old school. On my static sites, I hand code the side nav bar I want to use. This enables me to use different side nav bars for different situations. For instance, I may want to use a home side nav...
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Five Steps to Selecting the Right Newsletter Solution for You
After publishing my post on email broadcasting service, I decided to write one more post on email newsletters. Like everyone else, after I saw the poor performance of Zookoda, I was ready to jump ship....
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Do Not Ping Yourself
When I write a post, sometimes I link to another post on my blog. However, I've noticed that when I do, I end up pinging myself. In other words, the link shows up in the linked article as a pingback in...
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Related Posts Showing Unrelated Pages
I finally got around to hacking the Related Posts plugin for WordPress. I love the plugin, but on some posts it listed pages like my contact form or email newsletter confirmation as related pages. None...
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How to Fix Landing Sites Plugin
I finally got around to testing the Landing Sites plugin for WordPress. Don't let the name fool you. The plugin does not create or direct visitors to a landing page. Instead, the plugin displays...
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Excluding Categories from the Related Posts Plugin
Someone asked me how to omit posts from certain categories when using the Related Posts plugin. He even dangled a #9 from the Taco Bell menu via Paypal. It took me about 3 hours to figure it out, so...
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Hack More to Earn More
On one of my sites, I use the <!–more–> quicktag to designate the "cut-off" point for my posts. I could use the_excerpt tag, but I don't like how the excerpts look. Unless you explicitly define...
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Showing Posts When There's No Related Posts
Like many of you, I use the Related Posts plugin. I've even hacked the plugin a couple of times to deal with unrelated pages showing up as related and to exclude certain categories from the results....
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FeedFlares for RSS Text Ads
When TLA launched their Feedvertising RSS text ads, the text links reminded me of FeedBurner's FeedFlare. If you are reading this post from an RSS reader, you will notice a bunch of text links at the...
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Upgrading to WordPress 2.1 Tip
I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 recently and I want to share a tip. I uncompressed the new WP 2.1 files into a new directory. I name it wordpress2.1 then I upload the entire new directory to my server....
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Hack for RSS Feed Ads
I've been playing with the Better Feed WordPress plugin to insert ads in my RSS feed. As I mentioned previously, it's fairly easy to add a text footer or graphics ad into your feed. However, if you...
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CoolPlayer, Brian's Threaded Comments and WordPress 2.3.1
Hello everyone. I'm back. First, I want to apologize for the two false alarms (via RSS/email) in the last two weeks. The first false alarm was caused by switching the IP address of this blog with my...
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How to Fix the Democracy Plugin n Problem
I noticed during a recent WordPress upgrade, the Democracy Plugin started adding an extra "n" each time you saved the post: Here's how to fix the problem: (1) With a text editor, open "democracy.php" –...
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