The eBay plugin is very simple but effective. Once installed you input your EbayNetwork Campaign number into the settings, and how many ads you want to appear on each post.
Place the code <?php cybersebay(); ?> within the Wordpress loop and you are set.
The first time you use the plugin you will add a Custom Field to your post with the Key name, ebay. And use the value to hold the keyword for this post to import eBay ads. From here on out, whenever you write a post, you can select the custom field key, ebay from the pulldown list and add the keyword you wish to show listings for.
Below is an example from another site. The article is titled “Fun Stocking Stuffers” and the keyword for eBay is “Christmas Stocking Stuffers”
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During my testing of the plugin I received a $27 click, and that is certainly the highest valued click I have ever received !
And it is ONLY $9.95 !!
High Roller Black Theme
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Latest version: 1.0
Wordpress Version Up To: WP 2.7.1
Features:
The High Roller Theme for wordpress is a highly customized theme for your gambling affiliate website.
Here are some of the features:
Custom top casino/poker room table
Customize index page images and posts in seconds
Hide affiliate links and track outgoing hits
Custom banner management system with click tracking
Easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes
Normally adding banners will need you to edit your wordpress theme, mess with lots of codes and even then you won’t have the result as you want.
But what if you had the power to easily place your banners in any position you want to on your blog? What if you could also track your banners, find out how good they really are doing? Above all what if you didn’t even have to worry about editing your Wordpress theme to do all of this?
What if all of this could be done with one powerful and easy plugin? That is where Max Banner Ads comes into play. Adding, controlling, and tracking the banners on your blog has never been more easier or more powerful with the Max Banner Ads plugin.
The AdSense Manager Wordpress plug-in is a great plug-in which makes it easier than ever to place and maintain Google AdSense ads on your blog. The plug-in is great because it automatically generates AdSense code for your blog and allows you to use widgets to position ads on your blog. Another great feature is the ability to limit the number of ads so you do not violate any TOS.
This plug-in works great to keep readers interested in the content of your blog. It provides readers with links to other posts with similar keywords. When you use this plug-in, a list will appear at the end of each of your blog posts with a list of related posts. A similar plug-in is the Similar Posts plug-in.
Top 10 SEO Related WordPress Plugins
WordPress has some pretty good functions built in to help you with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), however you might find you need some plugins to help you along the way. Here are ten of my favorite WordPress plugins that have to do with making your web site work better with the various search engines out there.
All in One SEO Pack – The All in One SEO Pack plugin does exactly what its name implies – it allows you to customize and automate adding title tags, descriptions, keywords and meta tags to every page and post published on your blog. The All In One SEO Pack allows you to optimize each individual post on your website and users have reported a noticeable increase in traffic to their blogs from Google searches after installing and using the All in One SEO Pack plugin.
Redirection – Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge.
Search Everything – Increases Wordpress’ default search functionality through an options panel.
HeadSpace2 – Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!
Robots Meta – This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links and more.
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button – Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and over 100 more.
SEO Smart Links – SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Title Tag – Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages – indeed, any URL!
Optimal Title – Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.
SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.
Have a favorite of your own that didn’t make it onto the list? Please feel free to share via the comments!
In order for any person to
make money blogging you need to advertise, promote
affiliate marketing, and generate interest in products that will make you money. Smart Ads is a great plugin that helps place advertisements on your blog without having to constantly input the html code. The Smart Ads Wordpress plugin will allow you to automatically place ads before and after your blog posts. There are additional options to remove ads for subscribers, showing ads on posts older then a certain amount of time, and to disable the top ad if the top of the post contains an image. One of the nicer features of the SmartAds Wordpress plug-in is the ability to create a “SmartAd” which is a custom ad that you can add to your blog.
The Feedburner Feedsmith plug-in automatically redirects to your Feedburner feed regardless of how various users access it. Taking a couple of minutes to setup a feedburner account allows you to combine this plug-in with the feedburner subscribe by email option. As you see on my blog (its the subscribe to my blog form). This means you’ll give subscribers multiple options of subscribing, whether by RSS feed, email, or ShareThis.
If you use the “more” tag in
your blog posts (meaning, you just show a short amount of
your blog posts on your home page with a “Continue Reading” or similar link leading the reader to the full post), then only the part of your post before the “more” tag (before the “Continue Reading” or similar link) is visible in your feed to subscribers. If you want your subscribers to see your full posts in their feed readers, then the Full Text Feed plug-in is for you.
With this plug-in, your full posts will show up to subscribers in their feed readers at all times.
This is a great plugin for people who want to maximize the ad space on their blogs. Using text files that you create, the plugin automatically rotates between the ads you specify to appear in a particular space on your blog.
This is a light-weight and easy to use plugin which allows you to add any text and/or HTML/CSS code to your posts and/or pages as prefix (top / beginning), middle and/or suffix (bottom /end). (That includes even any new or old posts and pages and even your feed)
I’m using the WP Fluency 2 – Admin Theme for WordPress 2.7 and I LOVE it. I highly recommend it to anyone who uses Wordpress 2.7 it makes everything so much easier to navigate and it’s much cleaner looking. It’s basically just awesome in every way I can’t think of one negative. You must check it out!!
WP Remix 2.0 – the only theme on the net that offers WYSIWYG page template editing.
Over 50 page templates to choose from. Web standards, Colorschemes, Usability, grid, typography… you ask for it, it has all in it! Take Your Blog to a Higher Level!
Wp Remix has been designed and developed in way that allows everyone the ability to publish a small to large website using Wordpress in just minutes instead of hours and days!
Bundled with more than 50 strategically designed & coded custom static page templates, the theme enables everyone to publish a small sites in minutes saving weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality.
WordPress as CMS at its best.
Insert a page layout by a single click. Edit them in visual editor and publish!. What’s more you can set different sidebar and headers for different pages if you wish.
Multiple Options – Easily Customizable.
A Blog + 10 Homepage options + 20 Single page with different layout + 10 product/gallery page + 5 Miscellaneous page, Plugins compatibility, Ajax slider, Smart Drop menu, Tabs, Table…
How to be a Rockstar Wordpress Designer was put together by two of the brightest minds online and Wordpress gurus.
In the last few years WordPress has been growing as an essential tool in the web designer toolkit. Between regular blog themes and the increasing number of themes that turn WordPress into anything from a portfolio site to a shop, its use as a general purpose CMS has made it a staple of web design tutorials and galleries.
Craft Cart is a fresh flavoured retro theme for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for your online shop. This theme was created by Billion Studio
Crafty Cart requires the WP e-Commerce plugin from here for shopping cart functionality, but works as a fully functional blog on its own. The design features custom made ‘Add to Cart’ buttons and a beautiful shopping cart widget design.
Here is a list of themes that don’t look like much in their screenshots but are all great themes that you need to preview to really appreciate. So, Check them out already!
If Pinging to you is just one of those geek terms that you’ve come across but just brushed it off as more techno-speak. Then it’s important that you read this post..
Pinging is why blogs are more powerful than ordinary websites and why blogs are easily indexed in search engines while websites struggle to get indexed, Pinging is also why blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites..this is all because Blogs have the ability to PING! and you can’t afford to overlook the ping process, no matter how geeky it sounds.
Ok, so What is Pinging and what does it do for my blog?
In geek speak:“In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one.” – according to the Wikipedia article: ‘Ping (blogging)‘.
Similarly, aggregators also use results from ping servers to tell subscribers which items on their subscription lists have fresh material.
In less-geek speak: One word: traffic. WordPress automatically notifies popular ping services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPCping each time you create or update a post. In turn, Ping Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts! (Wordpress Codex)
Pinging is Super Fantastic but if your using Wordpress beware there are some major flaws in the way that Wordpress (by default) handles pinging that can get your blog banned from pinging services without you even knowing it…and causing you to loose traffic.
Write a post, PING, Great! Edit the post, PING, edit it again.. PING!! PING!! Not so great.
Multiple pinging can get you banned and if you’ve had your WordPress blog for some time then it’s highly possible that you’ve already been banned.
Do not fret my fearless warriors.. there is a WordPress plugin that fixes this problem ..
With this plugin you can list all the ping services you want to ping like usual but you can also see which posts have been pinged and when, limit the amount of times your site is pinged, when you edit an existing post, it won’t send an unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned.
If you think you’ve already covered this issue..just so you know..these older plugins don’t work anymore:
Smart Update Pinger
Ping Fix
WP Cron Future Ping
If your not sure which Ping sites to list in your Wordpress read this post…
The fact is there’s just not a whole lot of photoblog WP themes out there..believe me, I’ve been on the prowl searching online so I can share them with you and so far here is the list of themes that passed my stringent geek test & All are 100% geek approved.
I also added 3 Wordpress plugins at the bottom of the post that were developed specifically for photo-bloggers.
Enjoy the themes and remember to leave a comment or better yet digg this post! :X
Sharpfolio is a free WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.
“Porftolio Wordpress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page. Pretty Cool, eh?
DarkOFluid is a 2 column fluid width round corner wordpress theme. It includes a widgetize and jquery slide sidebar. - Darofluid demo
VizBiz Portfolio Theme – This is a premium theme by iTheme so it’s not free but it’s really beautiful and nifty so if your a photographer I believe it’d be worth the cash. Cost: $79.95
Portfolio Press. from Blog Oh! Blog – This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress. The theme is fully CSS/XHTML validated, WordPress 2.6+ ready and comes with easy to modify code. The comments are nicely designed with Gravatar functionality.
Photo-Blog wordpress theme
- this free wp theme is specially made for photo blogs, single column design, Unique design, xhtml valid, Widget ready plus it’s Orange!
Nishita – A simple, elegant styled PhotoBlog theme for Wordpress.
f8 – is a premium theme by Thad Allender it’s not free but whoa is it awesome – it’s a unique theme for Wordpress that can transform your Web site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio Web site. SEO optimized, iPhone compatible, 100% customizable options page, grid-based css, built-in Galleria support, slideshow-enabled, built-in multimedia support, auto or manual thumbnail control, Gravatars, plus much, much more. All colors, fonts, front page categories, contact info, slideshow height and other options can be managed on the f8 theme options page. There is no need to edit theme code, unless you want to customize f8. THUMBNAIL DOESN’T DO IT JUSTICE.
Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.
YAPB is a photoblog plugin
One post, one image, one description. Your image should be worth that. If you need to display multiple images in one post – Just download and use one of the several available gallery plugins for WordPress.
Check out this cool Flickr slideshow generator at FlickrSlidr
You might also want to download the wp plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tylr-slidr/
because it works great if you just plan on embedding the slideshow code into a post and then never editing the post again but if you plan on going back and changing something for whatever reason the code will cause problems and in my test completely disappeared.. So the plugin allows you to insert the slideshow straight from the wp editor toolbar. Pretty cool.
- For those who are new to this plugin, Shantz WP Prefix Suffix is a light-weight and easy to use plugin which allows you to add any text, HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code to your posts and/or pages as prefix and/or suffix. (That includes even any new or old posts and pages and even your feed) Examples: your copyright message, advertisements (like adsense, etc), permalinks, your other site links, any other custom messages. This works very fine with ad plugins like adsense-manager etc,
Options also include the ability to enable/disable displaying the text/code on home page and excerpts. Also a small bug was fixed that displayed the code even if it was chosen not to.
The plugin’s primary purpose (so far) is to create category landing pages, which are static pages with links to all the postings in a given category. You can, however, use it to create pages with lists of posts in any category. You can even use the plugin in posts, but you’ll have to explicitly specify a category name/ID. For details and download..
Excerpt-Reloaded
This is probably one of the most useful plugins I use and really come with Wordpress pre-installed. I wasn’t satisfied with the fuction that the Wordpress developers provide. The problem I had with the_excerpt, is that it strips html. a great little plugin for Wordpress that allows me to format my excerpts all I like. It’s called The Excerpt Reloaded, and it let’s you set a ton of options like excerpt length, the name of your “read more” link, the allowed html in the excerpt and more. I even got it to allow my slideshow above. Here is the code I put in my index.php page in place of the default.
Here are some of the best video plugins and widgets I found online..Enjoy!
Daiko’s YouTube Widget for Wordpress – Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).
Video Widget for Wordpress- Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video Id is required (no HTML code to paste).
Blinkx Video Wall. This widget sort of makes you feel like a security guard at the mall, except that you choose what content the monitors are filled with. Type in some keywords, select the size you want the widget to be, and voila! Blinkx goes out and finds video relevant to your search and tiles the results.(see below, you can either get the embed code from wigetbox or from the blinkx.com website.)
Youtube Videos by yourminis – The YouTube widget allows you to view videos from YouTube. You can completely customize the appearance of the widget by clicking on the color picker icon to change the background color, the background border to be square or rounded, add a transparency level and even add a custom background image.
WeShow Video Widget – My WeShow is a place where you can collect videos, share them with friends and create Video Communities. Sidebar or full view gallery of videos.
Vodpod.com – I liked this one. Vodepod is easy to add to your blog and you get to pick your own videos to add or the most popular videos. Videos come from several different networks and you can choose the size of your widget as well as style.
turtilla.com – widget based on a keyword search. Easy to add to wordpress.
WidgetBox – Make your page stand out by putting a video widget on MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, TypePad, iGoogle or your favorite website. (see sidebar)
Stock photos (in most cases) are an essential part of a web designing and since grabbing a photo off Google images is just not an option.. we need stock photos.
The dreadful process of searching for that illusive perfect picture begins. Looking for an image that fits your vision, is cheap or better yet.. FREE is not always easy or a quick process.
Which brings us to stock photo sites. The royalty-free and rights managed images (from both free and pay stock photos websites).
Here’s a list of free stock photo site, search engines and other resource links that offer images, text and videos licensed under Creative Commons.
Hope it makes life a little easier.
Sites that offer content licensed under Creative Commons
everystockphoto.com is a privately owned search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. We aim to be a community for designers, photographers and other media types who want better, easier access to multimedia content on the web.
Yahoo Creative Commons Search – Yahoo allows you to search the entire web for what you need based on the licenses attached to the content.
Geograph.org.uk – An attempt to photograph the entirety of the British Isles, and at the same time, license all the photos under the CC.
Google Advanced Search – Google gives you the option to include forms of licensing in your search.
DeviantArt.com – A site for artists to display their works. Some are nice enough to license under CC for your use.
Wikimedia Commons – The central clearing area for the Wikimedia projects CC files.
PhotoEverywhere.co.uk – A travel & tourism photo site offering stock photography for everyone’s use.
TakeIdeas.com – Share your photos, or find ones that inspire you.
Free Stock Photo Websites
Morguefile – morgueFile is a website database for free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
Photocase – Photocase is a community for stylish high-resolution photography. You can use the photos for commercial and non-commercial projects for free.
StockXchange – stock photography community – browse our huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others.
StockVault – Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their stock photos and images.
Dreamstime – Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images . Free photos added weekly.
Openphoto – Digital photography and an open network of photographers consisting of pictures of animals, nature, landscape, architecture, still life, and technology.
Text
IntraText.com – A site featuring thousands of texts from 900 B.C. to this decade. Most works are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
TravellersPoint.com – A wiki for travellers with a large collection of CC licensed travel related text.
UnearthTravel.com – Read travel guides about your favorite destinations.
Videos
Blip.tv – Allows video makers to assign multiple types of licenses to their content, users can search on each type.
Lulu.TV – A CC license site with embeddable videos
OurMedia.org – A video specific service run by archive.org, allowing users to host their videos under the Creative Commons license.
Revver.com – A video upload site very like YouTube, but all content defaults to the Creative Commons license.
SpinXpress.com – Share your video, audio, and images through various versions of the CC license.
Audio
ArtistServer.com – Thousands of MP3s for you to download and try out smaller bands.
ccMixter.org – A site to try your hand at mixing and mashing music that is all offered under the CC.
Jamendo.com – A music site providing free, full-length albums for you to download. You pay the artists what you want, or just spread the word about them.
PodShow.com – A site filling your MP3 player with Creative Commons licensed music, that allows you to discover old and new music alike.
SoundClick.com – A site for bands, both signed and unsigned, to be promoted. Offers free, downloadable, legal MP3s from some bands.
The Hottest Wordpress Designers Online….this is the topic.
Here you’ll find a list of the best and the brightest Wordpress designers who offer free themes. Their themes might just help you make your blog look a little bit niftier then the rest. Not “Just another Blog”…
These designers really know how to make use of nifty……
I recently discovered the designers at Freethemelayouts.com and was really impressed with the free themes that they offer. I mean really impressed. I haven’t seen any of their themes anywhere else so I’m assuming their pretty new.
Three tutorials by Wpelements.com and one plugin that can change a boring theme into a killer theme..Thanx Jason! You rule the school!
I’ve always had the hardest time finding cool graphic bullets online – that were not made before 1996.
There is a very small handful of websites that offer bullets and the ones that do offer bullets offer these huge ugly animated bullets.
So, if your trying to think of a cool website that could be popular.. that there be my suggestion.
I found one..websitebullets.com and even they make mention of the fact that they’re hard to find. If you do a search for bullets 7 out of the 10 results are for gun bullets and that’s the case even if you use “website bullets” as your search terms. So someone..save the net and make some cool bullets.
Another random tid bit..I made it to #1 for social network icon in Google..and I don’t even make social network icons. I only created a couple posts offering them with links to their designers. So, that might be another good idea for a website theme for someone.
I present you with Wordpress themes designed by yichi at Vikiworks.com. You’ll probably need to customize them a bit but the themes straight out of the box are beautiful. I recommend giving them a try. They are not all widget ready and you must install a few plugins for them to work correctly. Here are a all of the free themes designed by Yichi from Vikiworks.com.
Here is the code I put in my index.php page in place of the default.
