Chris K Designs

One of the things that I’ve learned throughout my years of software development is that if you can automate something, do it. Automation, when done correctly, saves time, creates less bugs, and bring consistency. As someone who sets up quite a few WordPress sites, one of the things I’ve come to loath is the installation process, settings updates, and installing plugins. Recently I started keeping a copy of the WordPress files with my most commonly used plugins already in the wp-content folder. This meant I just had to activate them once installation was done. But I wanted to take that a step further.

What if you could have your WordPress installation activate plugins, set your permalink structure, setup your timezone, default your comment settings, and get rid of the ‘Hello World’ and ‘Example Page’ entries?! Yeah, that might save you a few minutes. So here’s the trick.
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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 Mutube to manage and show my ads, as well as my ‘Better AdSense Targeting‘ plugin to help dial in the ad accuracy. With 2 lines of code, we can only show ads to non-logged in users. This means that you won’t be shown your own ads when logged in.
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I updated the post about how to create a custom theme for the DigitalNature Mystique theme for WordPess. It’s been updated to reflect new versions of WordPress and the Mystique theme. Let me know in the post comments if you have any other issues with this. Here’s a snapshot of what it looks like.

A Preview of the Login Screen

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