Nov
9
I’ve long used Alex King’s fantastic Wordpress Mobile plugin. It’s very simple to install to make your wordpress blog accessible to a variety of mobile devices. When Google announced that Adsense would be available for mobile I was doubly excited. When I first tried to add mobile Adsense code to my mobile pages, I kept getting the error “URL file access is disabled in the server configuration.” After a search through a variety of online forums, I finally figured out that this is a simple fix. In the root of the web directory there is a small file called “php.ini”. By default, many hosting plans have some critical parameters set to “off”. In order to take advantage of Google Adsense mobile, you will need to edit the php.ini file and set the following to “on”:
allow_url_fopen = on
allow_url_include = on
Reupload the file and you should no longer get error messages. It takes about 48 hours for the Google Adsense to start showing up.
Aug
28
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress
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Keep your visitors on your site by offering links to related posts. Related Posts, a plugin created by Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne, automatically lists related posts either based on the title of your post or through custom keywords. Simple upload and activate the plugin and follow the “readme.txt” file for instructions on how to place the automatically created links.
Aug
26
Sometimes you want a unique behavior or style for a single post or all the posts that fall within a certain category. Ryan Boren has created a WordPress plugin called Custom Post Templates that will achieve just that. This plugin which is easily tweaked, will point all of the posts within a category or a single post to a custom template that you set up.
Aug
26
Fantastic WordPress Plugins
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WordPress is not only great blogging software but it can also be used as content management software (CMS) for web site management. What makes WordPress particularly powerful are the enormous amounts of plugins available to extend its funtionality. Listed here are some fantastic WordPress plugins that are essential for most web sites.
- Google Sitemaps
Without a Google compliant sitemap, your web site can be lost to the indexing power of Google. Help Google help you with a sitemap (if you haven’t already, you should be signed up with Google’s Webmaster services as well). Created by Arne Brachhold, this plugin will create a Google compliant sitemap and ping Google for you. - Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam
Part of the benefit of using any blogging software is the ability to solicit comments from visitors. If you don’t want to have to slog through spambot comments, download and install this plugin by Peter Keung which uses image verification to stump spammers. - WordPress Mobile Edition
Don’t leave visitors from mobile devices squinting at your garbled web page on their handheld. This nifty plugin developed by Alex King automatically detects a variety of handheld browsers to reformat your site into an easy to read format. - WP-SNAP!
If any part of your site needs to be organization in an easy to navigate alphabetical fashion then this plugin from Nathan Olsen is the ticket. - Event Calendar
Offer your visitors a calendar of events related to your web site. Visitors can see upcoming events or browse via a calendar. Plugin developed by Alex Tingle. - Boakes MostWanted
Show off your most popular pages with this plugin from Rich Boakes using StatTraq (a plugin you will need to install first). - IMM-Glossary
If you have a jargon-rich web site, then you will need to offer your visitors a glossary. This plugin automatically hyperlinks predefined words and offers up the definitions from a choice of three formats.