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is a brand new Plugin lets you display eBay ads in a manner that is stylish and non obtrusive on your
WordPress blog. Ads that will display through your Plugin are “pulled” based on the post tags within your individual posts.
If eBay doesn’t serve ads you like, all you need to do is change your post tags some and that’s it. The ads will be displayed on your blog via a neat sidebar widget which allows you to place the ad wherever you like on your blog.
Obviously you will need to have widgets enabled on the blog (meaning you have to use them).
But before you rush to get the
WP TagAds Plugin you will need an eBay Campaign ID as an affiliate. You can do this by joining the
eBay Partner Network for free.
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If you are anything like me, then you appreciate the simple-ness of clean cut WordPress themes. I find them just so much easier on the eye as there is nothing that will distract from the content.
In the last year or so I’ve seen an increasing amount of blogs surface who prefer to use simple themes like
The Journalist. The Journalist WordPress theme is similar to the stylish
Whitepaper. It is simple and clean.
While some bloggers do prefer to use paid WordPress themes (myself included) for branding purposes, many of these free themes are great and even though I use a paid theme on my major blogs, I also use free themes on my other blogs.
The more I think about it, those clean, predominantly white spaced themes lend themselves really well to blogging about
simple things. Zen style blogs are all the rage as of late and everywhere they surface they seem to attract a huge amount of followers. After all, blogging about the simplistic aspect of life does help us to slow down and smell the roses.
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Here is a Plugin that lets you interact with your most avid fans by allowing you to see how often they have been active on your blog. The
Comment Info Tip WordPress Plugin ads some further usability to WordPress blogs and the way we can connect with each other.
What I really like about this is the way I can see as a blog owner who has been a very active commenter. Unless I study the comments physically and take the time to dig deeper, this is quite annoying really. Especially when you are
pressed for time as most of us are.
Now by using this Plugin we can simply hover over any comment and it will throw back some useful information. For example, we can see:
- how often the person has commented on the blog overall
- if the commenter has posted more than once, the Plugin will attempt to pull the RSS feed and show an excerpt of the latest blog post
- the Comment Info Tip Plugin will also indicate trackbacks and pingbacks
- if the commenter has posted more than once the Plugin will also display the links to the last three posts they have commented on on your blog
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Our
WordPress Themes section is growing, so I thought that adding a paid Premium theme would be a logical extension. We will keep releasing free ones monthly as well, so don’t worry.
NewsDen is a theme that I was actually developing for my next blog (the tech celebrities one), so it has the style and all the features that I like in a blog design. The result was a very clean and elegant theme which could be suitable for a wide range of blogs, that is why I decided to release it as a Premium theme.
Here is a list of the features:
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The new
Just Lucid WordPress Theme is neat and clean for blogger who enjoy whitish themes. This one has also a nice and nifty looking footer that looks very attractive as it stands out from most other footer designs.
Just Lucid was designed by
DemusDesign and includes some smart navigation.
Here is what they say on their site:
Main menu expands automatically - The image to the right of the main menu automatically expands to the size of the menu. So you can see what I mean, I’ve included a demo of different header sizes. For the image I have included, it works best to have it centered vertically, if you change the picture you may want to find “.menu” in the css and change the background value to read “no-repeat bottom right” or “no-repeat top right.”
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As bloggers we all love to get as many comments as we can. After all, having an active community of commenters gives us a sense of achievement. With the
Meet Your Commenters Plugin you can now connect even more with the people who comment on your blog by showing you some “insider” information within your dashboard about them.
The Plugin works with the help of the
Google Social Graph API.
When visitors leave a comment on your site they leave more info than you think and with the help of this Plugin you can connect through social networks where information is provided all through your dashboard.
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BT Active Discussions is a brand new
WordPress Plugin that acts via a phpBB platform. Instead of having a recent comments Plugin you could use this Plugin to save space in your sidebar and yet still give your readers a great overview of where the action is on your blog.
I really love this Plugin, as it will save space but allows readers to see where to go to find active comments on your blog. This means no more hunting around to see where, what and when as you can do this on the “recent discussions” page instead.
To install the BT Active Discussions Plugin, download the zip file from the
WordPress Plugin Directory.
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Blogs are a great way to make money online. However, sometimes the money is made not from direct methods like
Google Adsense or
affiliate marketing.
Sometimes, all you need a blog for is to grow your personal brand as a guru or an expert and the money comes in many, many other ways.
I’m releasing the theme I use for my
work-at-home blog as
The Guru Theme so you can use it on your blog too. I basically created space for a bigger blog header, which is necessary if you want to band yourself well.
This simple theme is perfect if:
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Here is a cool
WordPress themes developer who has managed to design some really nice and clean looking themes for WordPress.
Graph Paper Press WordPress themes are versatile enough to suit most needs and feature some cool looking magazine style themes.
From what I have seen, their themes are all customisable and you can create your very own show piece blog on the web for free or for a reasonable fee.
Monochrome Gallery is a free theme that supports Ajax powered featured posts on the home page. A great way to showcase the best you have with the help of images.
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“
Oh no.. not another minor upgrade!”
Did that thought cross your mind when you found out that
Wordpress 2.5.1 was released? I know I did.. given that I have 6 blogs to attend to.
If you installed Wordpress using Cpanel/Fantastico, you can probably wait a few more days before doing a fuss-free upgrading (though some users have reported problems with this method).
You can also install the
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin which, in Keith’s word, helps you to easily upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest version provided by wordpress, without having to download or upload any files. This plugin has proven useful for those who got it to work.
I promise myself to try out Keith’s plugin one day but for now, I’m still doing manual upgrading. I just feel more secure and in control
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pressed for time as most of us are.
Now by using this Plugin we can simply hover over any comment and it will throw back some useful information. For example, we can see:
Just Lucid was designed by DemusDesign and includes some smart navigation.
Here is what they say on their site: Main menu expands automatically - The image to the right of the main menu automatically expands to the size of the menu. So you can see what I mean, I’ve included a demo of different header sizes. For the image I have included, it works best to have it centered vertically, if you change the picture you may want to find “.menu” in the css and change the background value to read “no-repeat bottom right” or “no-repeat top right.”
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I really love this Plugin, as it will save space but allows readers to see where to go to find active comments on your blog. This means no more hunting around to see where, what and when as you can do this on the “recent discussions” page instead.
To install the BT Active Discussions Plugin, download the zip file from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Read more
Blogs are a great way to make money online. However, sometimes the money is made not from direct methods like Google Adsense or affiliate marketing.
Sometimes, all you need a blog for is to grow your personal brand as a guru or an expert and the money comes in many, many other ways.
I’m releasing the theme I use for my work-at-home blog as The Guru Theme so you can use it on your blog too. I basically created space for a bigger blog header, which is necessary if you want to band yourself well.
This simple theme is perfect if: Read more
Monochrome Gallery is a free theme that supports Ajax powered featured posts on the home page. A great way to showcase the best you have with the help of images.
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