I have added a few plugins and tweaked a bit of the code on WeblogToolsCollection to keep things fresh and new. Here is the list. WhoSeesAds: I have been meaning to wean out the Google AdSense ads for my regular visitors and Ozh’s plugin was the ticket. If you have not used it yet, you are missing out. It is one of the finest pieces of useful and well thought out code for WordPress bloggers. I have the ads set so they only show for posts older than 30 days or if you are not a regular visitor. I like the lack of distractive AdSense blocks. There is also a distinct benefit that I had not anticipated. The best paying AdSense block on this blog has also been the most obnoxious that regular readers have complained about. I can now display those ads to people that happen to stop by […]
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Archive for October, 2007
MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitters on their WordPress site. WP Tag Manager aims to provide tag management that seamlessly integrates into your WordPress admin. XmasB lets you add and show random quotes to your WordPress blog with ease.
[Continue Reading...]Bloomingday is a 3-column, green theme with flowery header. Brownie is a 2-column theme with a header image guaranteed to tickle your sweet-tooth. DGA Design 01 is a 2-column, Adsense-ready theme with blue color scheme. Godfrey is a single-column, gray-and-red theme with custom shaped content areas and dual bottom information areas that display Recent Posts, Categories, Search Bar, Blogroll, and Meta Information. InKarm is a 2-column theme with red, black, and white colors predominant. Star’eve is a 2-column, dark theme with minimalistic design. WordPreciousss is a 2-column, minimal theme that uses skins to change, layout, and format.
[Continue Reading...]I decided to use Project Wonderful for a month before I would say anything about the service so that I could talk somewhat intelligently about it. Project Wonderful lets you sell ads on your blogs in a new way. They use something called an “infinite auction” model that allows you to continue to sell your ad even after it is sold one time. In other words, the ads are sold on a per day basis and the highest bidders’ ads are displayed on your blog. The system has its weaknesses but it does work. You sign up just like any other advertising service and wait for them to approve your blog. Then you decide what kind of ad blocks you would like to display, setup the code and then add the code to your blog. The process of setting up ads and displaying them is a learning experience, but more […]
[Continue Reading...]Easy Asides for WordPress: Daniel has come up with another way to easily add “Asides” to your WordPress install. I use the category LinkyLoo (Of which this post is an example. If you are reading this is a feed reader, you are missing the effect) to the same effect. His method is WordPress 2.3 compatible and though it involves code modification, it is not very complex to implement.
[Continue Reading...]The science of blog reading: Nick Carr gives us an executive summary of an article by a team from CMU (and Nielsen) and he explains their thesis with the following foreword: The problem of detecting contaminants in a public water system is analogous to the problem of figuring out what’s going on in the blogosphere. Any article that claims that the blogosphere is essentially a sewer, is worth the read. I whole heartedly disagree with the list of 100 blogs that “everyone should read” but the concept is amusing and the principles behind their claims might have some merits. But then again I disagree with any and all such lists because all blogs and their readers do not have the same interest in all subject matters. Also as an astute commenter on that post points out, some of the blogs on that list aren’t even updated anymore and thus their […]
[Continue Reading...]Category Posts Widget displays the most recent posts from a specific category. Easy Gravatars makes it simple to add Gravatars to your blog. Hiddy is a captcha-like plugin to help fight spam comments. Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files. Random Categories with Random Posts picks random entries from random categories to display on your blog. (For WordPress 2.2.3 and lower.) Sensitive Tag Cloud provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context only.
[Continue Reading...]1 Blog Theme is a 3-column theme with horizontal menu and 3-column footer. 3MOS is a 2-column theme with orange background and collapsible header. dfMarine is an attractive 2-column theme with 3-column header. DivCubs is a 3-column, dark theme with a customizable About section in the sidebar. Henrietta is a single-column theme with collapsible header that emphasizes your blog’s content. LOTR Back to History is a 2-column theme with a Lord of the Rings design. Mellowed is a nice 3-column theme with soft blues in the header and clean layout. Shifter Fluid 180 is another 2-column theme that provides the option of switching which side your sidebar appears on. Zen 8 is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with support for Adsense and SEO-optimization.
[Continue Reading...]AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks for WordPress: AdaptiveBlue recently released their SmartLinks product for bloggers and also released a WordPress plugin that makes all of this easier to implement and manage. From the authors’ blog SmartLinks are automatically inserted, helping readers to discover, explore, and connect to relevant information from around the web. The links are to pages about books, music, movies, stocks, recipes, restaurants, gadgets, people, movie stars and various entertainment and media. Apparently SmartLinks is already in use on sites such as Amazon.com and Yahoo Finance. SmartLinks could be a cool way to display all the media that is related to a few words in your post but I believe this service would have a wider audience if one could include their Amazon Affiliate ID on the links that are generated. [EDIT] Seems it can be done with a hack. WordPress users have to insert the following script into their template […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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