Archive for July, 2007

Adsense with Rounded Corners

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July 6th, 2007
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Google Adsense Ad Border with Rounded Corners: Apparently I was snoozing when this feature was released by Google but now you can have rounded corners on your Google AdSense ads. This could be a good way to increase your CTR, especially on blogs with AdSense blindness. I can see people coming up with very creative variations of the borders and colors to attract more attention to AdSense ads. I first noticed it on Google Blogoscoped while reading their article on AdSense Referrals.

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ChipIn: Funds for a reason

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July 5th, 2007
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ChipIn is an online tool to collect money from your blog or website and they have widgets that you can embed in your sidebar. It is a good way to keep track of your donations and an eye catching way of keeping track of your fund raising project. I personally like the backend interface and widget loads fast and you can choose many different applications to display the widget on including hosted WordPress blogs. At this time ChipIn does not charge any money to use their widget and the only fees you have to pay is for the PayPal transfer. This could be really useful to churches and other non-profit groups that regularly require donations for projects. ChipIn caught my eye when I was browsing a Church’s blog and they were collecting money for a new air-conditioner. I might set one up for the WordPress Plugin Competition. Know of anyone […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 7/5

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@arctic business is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with left and right sidebars. Fresh Apple is a 3-column, adsense-ready theme with white and green colors. Rockin’ Chrome is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with black, grey, and red colors. Tech9 is a 4-column theme that supports recent comments and posts, del.icio.us, and flickr. VertigoBlue is a 2- or 3-column, widget-ready theme. Emporium Grass is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a custom grassy header. (Contains sponsored links.) Pink Angel is a 2-column, pink-and-black theme. Also check out BlackPink and YellowFlowers by the same designer. (All three themes contain sponsored links.)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 7/5

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July 5th, 2007
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Login Logger keeps track of recent logins to WordPress for all users, as well as all failed logins. It records username, time, IP address and how long since each login attempt as well as time since last active for each user. My Category Order gives you manual control over the order of your WordPress post categories by letting you set an explicit order. My Link Order gives you manual control over the order of your WordPress link categories and links by letting you set an arbitrary order. My Page Order gives you manual control over the order of your WordPress pages and subpages by letting you easily set an explicit order. Post Author Profile adds a link under the post author’s name to his profile page (his/her website URL, all posts written by him/her and so on). Text Image displays your post text as a PNG image instead of sending […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 7/4

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July 4th, 2007
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Comment Fields JS Validation validates the comment form required fields using JavaScript. Custom Admin CSS hides modules in admin-edit area. Configure a simple css and have more space in the edit-area. Disable Right-click disables right-clicks on your blog. Disable Select-text removes the ability for readers to highlight and copy text from your blog. Navigation Menu is a dynamic tree menu navigation that function in a similar fashion to wp_list_page(). Page Read Counter will count the number of posts on your blog, how many times each has been read, and how many people are currently reading a given entry. phpBB Last Topics displays recent phpBB topics on your WordPress installation. Postreach ClickComments is a WordPress plugin that allows your readers to comments by just clicking and without providing email addresses. Resize and Save lets you attach a thumbnail image to a post that will become full-size when the post is clicked […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 7/4

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Largo is a 2-column theme with a unique header structure. (Page written in French.) Glass is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that lets you put a Google adsense bar inside the glass itself. Mandarin is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a citrus-y look and a variety of unique features. Mindless Spot is a 2-column theme dressed in blue colors. Modern Paper is a 3-column, widget-ready, minimalist theme with both sidebar columns situated to the right side. Stickybud is an attractive 2-column theme with a custom header image that shows recent comments and posts. Velice is a 2-column, professional theme with a white sidebar and grey-patterned content area. Frog is a 2-column theme with a frog image in the lower, right corner. Also check out

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Holy Plugins Batman!

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July 3rd, 2007
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Index of /wp-content/plugins – Google Search: I am not sure what to make of this search but not only are there a lot of self hosted WordPress blogs, too many of them allow their plugin folder to be indexed. I performed this search because I noticed a crawler on a couple of my blogs that was indexing my plugins and that alarmed me a little. I do not allow my plugin folder to be indexed since I consider that too risky. The homepage of the crawler lists various plugins and their propensity in the WordPress Blogosphere. I imagine the crawler browses the plugins folder of each new blog discovered and if that folder can be browsed, it tries to crawl the various plugin php files it is aware of while looking for 404s and empty strings. I stop short of suggesting that everyone protect their plugins folder because if the […]

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Bloggers Face Off

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July 3rd, 2007
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Daniel from DailyBlogTips is running a series called Bloggers Face Off and this time I am featured along with engtech. I like featured posts like this because they not only promote the participants (and thus gives you brownie points) but they also help to increase traffic with the right methods and intentions. Daniel has run this series very effectively with a lot of high profile bloggers. The interview questions were relatively simple and all in good fun. Thanks Daniel.

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FeedBurner MyBrand Now Free

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July 3rd, 2007
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FeedBurner MyBrand Now Free: Feedburner’s service that allowed publishers to publish their feeds through their own domain with the help of Feedburner, is now free of cost. This service used to cost upwards of $3 and might be a good way to retain the transparency and control over the feeds of your blog if you choose to serve them through Feedburner. [EDIT] Looks like Google decided to make the Pro Stats feature of Feedburner free as well. This is definitely good news!

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