Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress Plugins’

Many people have been complaining about slow loading social widgets. You know the ones! I’ve written a WordPress plugin which may help, but there are some issues related to it and I’d like some advice. I have some specific people in mind, so I’ll ping them below.

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22 cents actually. A day or so after enabling Google Adsense, my blog generated its first income from a click. A day later, another cent appeared. I’m not sure where the extra cent came from. It’s not from a click and it can’t be from impressions. I guess Google were just feeling generous.

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Return readers will notice some changes here at More Than Scratch The Surface. I normally don’t blog about changes, but in this case, there are so many that I thought it would be worthwhile. Here’s a rundown on them. (more…)

The upcoming release of the DualFeeds plugin for WordPress includes an optional feature which promotes the plugin by displaying ‘Powered By DualFeeds’. I want to know what you think about this - is it okay for plugins to promote themselves? (more…)

I’ve been quiet for the last week or so, as I’ve been busy working on an update to the DualFeeds plugin. It’s almost finished. I told someone it would be ready in a week - that was two weeks ago! I’ve ended up adding a lot of new features, so I thought I’d give a quick rundown of them here. (more…)

Note: This post has been superceded by the Using DualFeeds With FeedBurner article.

People have asked if the DualFeeds plugin can be used with FeedBurner. DualFeeds does work with Feedburner, although there is a potential issue if a plugin such as FeedSmith is in use. This is a guide to using DualFeeds with FeedBurner, including an explanation of the FeedSmith issue. (more…)

In my last post, I covered how to set up a Most Viewed section in the Sidebar, using Lester Chan’s WP-PostViews plugin. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the version of WP-PostViews that I was using, which broke the link to my DualFeeds plugin page in the Most Viewed section. (more…)

I use Lester Chan’s WP-PostViews plugin to count how many views each post gets. I recently added a Most Viewed section to my Sidebar. The problem? I use WordPress Widgets and there is no widget for the plugin. (more…)

I have now adopted the Buy Me A Beer plugin, but there was one thing I didn’t like: it is not possible to make it appear on the sidebar for selected posts only. I wanted it on my plugin pages, but not my other posts (I don’t believe in donations for posts). Here I explain how to do this. (more…)

Most bloggers think that selling dofollow links is bad, right? But what if you do it in a roundabout way, without really intending to? Let me explain… (more…)