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Plugin Review: Quick Drafts Access

by Chris K on July 31, 2011

The ‘draft’ status is a feature in WordPress that I use heavily. When I get an idea for a topic, I will typically just write up a title to remind me I have something I want to write about. I went looking for a way to quickly access my drafts and stumbled upon ‘Quick Drafts [...]

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Recently I’ve been seeing a trend in some WordPress sites that I happen to come upon, and it’s one that concerns me. People are giving a list of plugins they have installed on their WordPress sites. Even stating how many are active. A quick search over at WordPress.org/extend show there are plenty of plugins available [...]

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Updated Today Plugin – Version 2.4

by Chris K on July 13, 2011

I’ve put together a small update to the Updated Today Plugin. This updated includes the following: Added an option to link the banner to the most recently published post Cleaned up entries in options table to be one serialized array instead of separate entries for each option Added import of old settings into new version [...]

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Pro Blogging Tip: Advertising with WordPress

by Chris K on July 12, 2011

In the age of Professional Blogging, there are many ways to make money with your words. The most common is through advertisements. Some of the easiest way to make money are through targeted ad networks such as Google’s Adsense and Adbrite. You can guess, with the advent of advertising, came WordPress advertising plugins. I’ve got [...]

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It’s not secret, I have Google’s Adsense on my site. What, a guy has gotta make a buck. The issue is, your stats will look really misleading in the Adsense interface because every time you view the site, you’ll get an impression logged of your ads. Currently I am using the ‘Adsense Manager‘ plugin by [...]

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WordPress Tip: Unused Plugins

by Chris K on June 17, 2011

I marked this as a tip, but I think this should be more of a Security Notice. If you are using WordPress you have, with no doubt, installed a few plugins to enhance your site. In the initial setup process you probably spent quite a bit of time installed a number of plugins, deciding which [...]

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