Archive for September, 2007
Google Adsense Referrals
Google Adsense Referals is another program I was selected to participate in. It seems ok, but again, I don’t want to whor my site to this type of advertising, so I will only use a little bit. When you log into Adsense, click on Adsense setup and click on the referrals button. You can choose [...]
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is an easy to use pay per click program that lets you earn some money for blogging. Obviously, the more clicks you get, the more your income. Also, the higher paying the ad, the higher your income will be as well. You can sign up for the program here. Make sure to adhere [...]
Jumping My Guns
I have to admit, this project has caused me to become enthusiastic. I have so much to do to this site and share that I am posting at record (for me) numbers. I have also been moving faster ahead than I am writing. SO please bear with me. You will be seeing things pop up [...]
Native Son WordPress Blog
I have decided to add a random website link to this poste to start the discussion of links and backlinks. When creating your site, you will want as many people to link to your site as you can. The links are basically a thumbs up about your site, and the search engines highly regard it. [...]
All in One SEO Pack
I am going to install the All in one SEO plugin to begin having descriptions and custom titles for the posts, as well as the custom Blog title and description post available. You can download it here. Once you are done, downloading, installing, and activating it, you will see a new field in the write [...]
Share this Social Bookmarking
Share this social bookmarking is a cool plugin from Alex King. It won’t be as useful for a small blog but you never know, and why not use something that is easy to use and potentially extremely helpful. Just downlad, install, and activate the plugiin and it automatically adds the share this button to the [...]
Feedburner Readers Chicklet
Once you have a Feedburner account, you can announce to the world how many readers you have to your blog. Log into your account and choose the website you wish to display. Click on publicize, and then click on the link for feed count. You’ll get some code there. I added it to a text [...]
Samsarin PHP Widget
Samsarin PHP Widget is also a must have for anyone with a widgetized theme that wants to be able to execute php functions from their widgets. You can download it here. Scroll to the bottom of your widget page after you install and activate the Samsarin PHP Widget and set yourself up with up to [...]
PHP Exec 3.3
PHP Exec is a must have plugin for any blogger that wants to add a lot of php functionality to their blogs. It allows php tags in your posts without bombing them. You can download it here.
Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress
I installed and activated the Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress after activating the permalink redirect plugin. It is an option to use it, so why not. First, download, install, and activate the plugin. Then go to www.feedburner.com and make an account, then “burn” the name of your feed. After that, download, install, and activate the [...]
New Video Card
I had an eventful day. After work, I went to the computer store twice to get my video card fixed. It was a pain, and it didn’t work again for about an hour. Then all of the sudden, it just works again. No problem. I wonder if I even needed to buy a new one. [...]
WordPress Auto Save
I found out about a cool new feature from WordPress that allowed me to not have to retype the previous post. My daughter came by to hang out for a bit, and as she is only 10 months old, she decided to pull on the power cord to the computer, thus foiling my last post, [...]
Permalink Redirect
Permalink redirect is a necessary plugin for you to use with WordPress. Download the plugin from the site, upload it to your plugin reppository, and then activate it. Under the option tab of the WordPress menu, select the permalinks tab. I changed my structure to /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%. Change your new link structure to whatever you want. [...]
Akismet WordPress Plugin
Spam is the bane of every bloggers existence. You will get spammed early and often in your blogging career. Akismet is a WordPress base install plugin (it comes with the initial installation) that will help you keep spam at bay. Click on the plugin tab and then find Akismet and activate it. Oh no! You [...]
Advanced Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin
This is the first plugin I am going to install. You can download it here. It makes navigating around the inside of your WordPress sooooo much easier. It will save you a lot of clicking and waiting for pages to load too. This is a must have plugin as far as I am concerned. And [...]
WordPress Blogging Pro Widget Enabled Theme
I have made my choice. Of course, I can always change it later, but I like the theme and dig the name. You can download it from the Blogging Pro website. This is the widgetized version. It’s even got widgets in the footer! How about that! It also came with a plugin pack that included [...]
Finding a Suitable WordPress Theme
You need to find a theme that you can live with (but it’s not as important because it is so easy to change it if you don’t like it). Make sure it is compatible with your current version of WP, and compatible with the current state of your installed plugins. You may need to update [...]
First Things First
I am going to upgrade the site from WordPress 2.05 to WordPress 2.2 using Fantastico (a tool on the cpanel from my server) that makes for quick installations of WordPress and easy as pie upgrades! Here goes… What to do? 1) Log into your cpanel 2) Click on Fantatico 3) On the right, it will [...]
Clearcut Blogging is back!
I have come to the conclusion today that writing a blog chronicling my experience with WordPress would be useful to other Superabusers (code hacks) like myself. I have learned a lot in the past several months. I hope this blog is useful to others, and that a nice community can be formed to help with [...]
