Nov 13, 20096

Adsense Integration plugins for WordPress

Categories: Wordpress
Adsense Integration plugins for WordPress
Earlier, we discussed some Pay-per-click ad serving options; their features, advantages, limitations and payment policies. This time we will look into some WordPress plugins that integrates advertisement into the site. Most of them are related to Google Adsense, since it's the most widely used advertisement program on the net. But I've also covered some popular alternatives such as, Chitika, Amazon etc. WP Simple Adsense Integration As the name suggests, this plugin makes Adsense integration truly simple. Adding a Google advertisement on your WordPress blog post, page or sidebar is just a trigger text or a PHP function call away. If you feel overwhelmed while using some premium plugins built for the same purpose, this one is definitely for you. [Get the plugin] Adsense Beautifier If you are worried about ads making your beautifully design website look bad, you can try out this plugin. This plugin makes your Adsense look soothing to the eye, by adding images adjacent to the ads. This also helps increase your click-through rate(CTR). However, don't forget to add a line between the image and the ad, otherwise you would be voiding terms and conditions set up by Google. [Get the plugin] Adsense Earnings This plugin enables you to check your Adsense earning right ...
Nov 9, 20097

How to Add Javascript in a WordPress Post or Page

Categories: Wordpress
How to Add Javascript in a WordPress Post or Page
One of my readers asked me the following question: "How can I run a JavaScript within a WordPress post?" In this short post I have explained how I use Javascript in my WordPress posts. Adding javascript in WordPress post is really simple. You just have to switch to the HTML view in the editor and paste the JavaScript code and that's pretty much it. If the JavaScript code is in an external file then you need to include it first. You will need to add a bit of code similar to the following in your "header.php" or "footer.php" file to include the external JavaScript file: <script type="text/javascript src="http://www.your-domain-name.com/scripts/my-javascript.js"></script> I prefer to add javascript in the footer for site performance factors. You can paste it in the HTML view of the post too if this file is only needed in that one post. Replace "http://www.your-domain-name.com/scripts/my-javascript.js" with the actual location of the JavaScript file. After you have included the file you can use any functions that is defined in that file. Use something similar to the following: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- custom_function(); //--></script> Replace "custom_function();" with the actual name of the function.
Oct 26, 200925

Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad – Which One Should You Choose?

Categories: Blog Setup, Make Money
Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad – Which One Should You Choose?
Pay-Per-Click or PPC in short, is an effective marketing scheme for the Internet. If you have a personal blog/site that attracts moderate to high traffic, and you want to generate some revenue from it then PPC is a very good option for you. There are many companies, including the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! etc. that offer PPC ad-serving applications for webmasters and publishers. After registering with the company, all you have to do is put some Javascript code or HTML in your pages and activate the advertisement. The company tracks how many times the ads have been viewed and clicked and makes your payment at the end of the month. In this article we will take a look at some PPC ad serving applications and try to help you decide which one could be the best option for you. Google Adsense Google AdSense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters can place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages in order to allow Google's servers to show context sensitive advertisements (Google Adwords). Google uses their search engine ranking technology to decide what ads to show on your site, and on specific pages on your site. On a ...
Oct 14, 20093

Is the RSS Feed of your WordPress Blog Working in all Major browsers?

Categories: Wordpress
Is the RSS Feed of your WordPress Blog Working in all Major browsers?
This morning one of my site visitors was kind enough to email me saying that the RSS Feed of my blog wasn't working on Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. Internet Explorer is well known for its issues so I wasn't that alarmed but my hearth jumped as soon as I double checked the RSS feed on Chrome and found that it was complaining too. In this article I am going to explain what the error was and what I did to resolve it so you don't panic if it ever happens to you. The 1st RSS feed Error and Solution Internet explorer was displaying the following error when I clicked the RSS feed link on my site: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. Chrome gave me the following which was a bit better as it was pointing out the line of the error rather than saying there is an error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 485 at column 330: Encoding error At this stage my best option was to validate my RSS feed using the W3C Feed Validator A quick validation check ...
Oct 2, 2009208

WordPress eMember – Easy to Use WordPress Membership Plugin

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress eMember – Easy to Use WordPress Membership Plugin
WordPress eMember is a WordPress Membership Plugin that can turn your existing or new WordPress site into a membership site easily. You can selectively protect articles by creating various membership levels (eg. Free, Basic, Premium, Ultimate) and protect the content (posts, pages etc) of your site. The plugin manages all the membership management side of things. Plugin Features Below are just some of the notable features of the WP eMember Plugin (click here for a full list of features): Easy Installation Easy installation like any other WordPress plugin. Content Protection Selectively protect the full or a section of an article. Create different membership levels and select what content (posts, pages, categories, comments) can be viewed by each membership level. Ease of Design and Usage Very easy to use and it integrates nicely into your existing site. No site redesign or any changes necessary. Easy PayPal Integration Can be easily integrated with a plain PayPal button. Read more here. Autoresponder Integration It can be integrated with Autoresponders (AWeber, MailChimp). This way the members automatically get signed up to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose. WordPress Affiliate Software Integration Can be integrated with the WordPress Affiliate Software Plugin. So if you decide to boost your membership signups by introducing an Affiliate ...
Sep 22, 20095

Spice up your WordPress Site with JQuery

Categories: JQuery
Spice up your WordPress Site with JQuery
Designing your site with a slick, stylish look, along with some cool Ajax-y features definitely impresses the visitors. They'll come to your site more, the traffic goes up and the revenue grows. Yes, it does require a lot of work involving CSS/JavaScript and HTML, but that's why JQuery is here for! This lightweight JavaScript framework and the plugins built with it for implementing numerous front-end features, have made the lives of web developers and designers a lot easier. This article is a round up of some really cool Jquery plugins available on the Internet for download and use. How to add JQuery library to WordPress Theme Wordpress already comes with the latest jQuery library so all you have to do is include it in your theme if you want to make use of it. Once you include the JQuery library you can start using all the cool JQuery functions. There are two ways you can include the JQuery library in your theme: Option A: Insert the following  in your "header.php" file of the WordPress theme: <?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?> Option B: Add the following bit of code in the "functions.php" file of your WordPress theme: function insert_jquery() { wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); } add_filter('wp_head','insert_jquery'); Some Cool JQuery Plugins 1. Slider Gallery With Slider Gallery you can create a ...
Sep 15, 200930

Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Categories: Blog Setup, Site Optimization Tips
Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security
You have started a blog to share your opinion with the World Wide Web. Someone stumbles upon one of your articles. He likes it, and posts it on Digg. Now it gets everyone's attention. Visitors come pouring into your site. Your revenue starts to go up. Definitely good news! But now there is a catch. You are now the target of the 'bad crowd' of the Internet, spammers, hackers and leechers. It's time to toughen up your innocent little Wordpress site. The .htaccess file is the easiest and the cheapest (actually it's free!) solution to secure a Wordpress blog. What is a .htaccess File? The .htaccess file is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn "loaded via the Apache Web Server", then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. It is often used to specify the security restrictions for the particular directory. In this article I'm going to show you how to strengthen your site's security by adding/changing a few lines in this file. Before you make any changes, it might be a good idea to take a backup ...
Sep 2, 200915

2 Simple WordPress Blog Optimization Tips and Tricks

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
2 Simple WordPress Blog Optimization Tips and Tricks
I have been pretty busy with the WordPress plugin development lately, so didn't get a chance to write any posts for a few weeks. I think it's about time I share a simple but effective website performance improvement trick with the readers of this site that I have been using on all my sites. If you haven't read the WordPress site optimization tips and tricks already then you should read that first. This trick involves changing some of the dynamic wordpress queries to static ones which in turn reduces the number of database queries and improves site performance. This does require a little bit of PHP knowledge but it's really basic stuff. In your WordPress theme's header and footer you will see many statements similar to the following: bloginfo('home') This queries WordPress for the home URL of your blog (eg. http://www.your-site.com). Now, how often do you think your home URL is going to change? Most likely never! So why not replace it with the static information which is "http://www.your-site.com" and make one less database query? Saving one database query may not sound very convincing but you probably have many statements like the following that can also be replaced: bloginfo('html_type') bloginfo('charset') bloginfo('name') bloginfo('version') bloginfo('stylesheet_url') bloginfo('rss2_url') bloginfo('template_directory') bloginfo('home') Now multiply that by every page load per ...
Jul 13, 200952

How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site
Few weeks ago I wrote on how to optimize your WordPress site for better performance which has some tips and tricks on how to speed up a WordPress Site. I received a few requests to elaborate on some of the points as not all of them are obvious changes. In this article I have explained how you can add far future expiry header to your image, css and javascript files to speed up your site. Adding expires headers do not affect the site load time for a first time visitor but you will be surprised how much the page load time decreases (faster page load) for subsequent page views/return visits from that visitor. Expires header specifies a time far enough in the future so that browsers won't try to re-fetch images, CSS, javascript etc files that haven't changed (this reduces the number of HTTP requests) and hence the performance improvement on subsequent page views. If your server is Apache (most web servers), you can use the 'ExpiresDefault' directive to set an expiration date relative to the current date. ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 months" This sets the expiry date of the file 2 months into the future from the current time. The following values can ...
Jun 28, 2009285

WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin – Simple Affiliate Program for WordPress Blog/Site

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin – Simple Affiliate Program for WordPress Blog/Site
It is a known fact that having an affiliate program is the most powerful way to market your products or services online (Read more on the benefits of affiliate program). If you own a WordPress blog/site and your answer to the following questions are 'yes' then the 'WordPress Affiliate Platform' might just be what you need: Do you sell products or services online from your WordPress blog/site? Do you want to increase your sales and explode your profits by using an affiliate program? Do you want to have your own affiliate program so you can cut the middle man? Plugin Summary The 'WordPress Affiliate Platform' is an easy to use WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking that can be used on any WordPress blog/site. This plugin lets you run your own affiliate campaign/program and allows you to reward(pay commission) your affiliates for referred sales. The admin can upload/configure banners/links which the affiliates can use on their blog/site to drive traffic to your site. All the clicks, leads, sales etc are tracked by this plugin. If you are running online ad campaigns for your products and services then you can use the affiliate platform plugin to measure the true conversion rate of each campaign to ...
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