WordPress
Ad Logger ‘click logging’ plugin for WordPress
Ad Logger for WordPress is a new plugin for logging clicks on iframe adverts and other social network buttons. At the moment it can log Google AdSense / Amazon Associates adverts, and Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 social media buttons. It also has a ‘catch-all’ mode which will log any other iframe clicks. Clicks stats in one place - You can [...]
Include a different advert in each WordPress post depending on category
I’ve had many requestes from people who want to include different adverts on each post according to the post category. One example would be a football website that has a different post category for each team. They might want different ads to show depending on the team. E.g. ads for Liverpool F.C. might not appeal to followers of Manchester [...]
Ad Injection 1.2.0.0 preview – WordPress ad management plugin
Ad Injection (the plugin for injecting adverts into your WordPress blog) version 1.2.0.0 should be out in a week or two (mid-September 2011). Here is a preview of some of the new features – the screen shots are from the unreleased version so the UI may change slightly before release. Ad Injection already has many options for selecting exactly [...]
Notes on upgrading to WordPress 3.0 on 1and1
Normally I’d wait until at least the x.01 release of a new WordPress before upgrading. But this time I wanted to try the new WordPress soon after the final 3.0 version was out. I still waited a few days before installing it to let other people discover and fix any initial problems. Problems and fixes My wait paid off as a number of people who [...]
Renaming table prefix on WordPress 2.9
I wanted to rename the table prefix for this blog before upgrading to WordPress 3.0. I knew about the WordPress Table Prefix Rename Plugin which claimed to work for WordPress 2.x, but I couldn’t find anyone saying they had tried it specifically on WordPress 2.9. The only thing to do was to try it myself. As stated in the documentation this [...]
Writing WordPress posts offline in Word with the help of VBA macros
If you want to write your WordPress posts offline (i.e. in a separate editor to the WordPress editor), then you may find you have to spend a fair bit of time reformatting the blog post to add any required WordPress formatting before you can publish. There are lots of reasons for wanting to write your WordPress blog posts offline. You may not have [...]
Tips for upgrading to WordPress 2.9 on 1and1
A few days ago I upgraded the my blog from WordPress 2.8.5 to 2.9. Here are some tips on what I did in case you run into any of the same issues that I did. That blog is hosted by 1and1 and some of the information may be specific to them. This isn’t meant as a full upgrade guide – just a collection of tips that may help you. First make sure you [...]
Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.1 on 1and1
In the bad old days upgrading anything WordPress related (plugins, themes, or WordPress itself) would at best involve manually downloading a zip, extracting it locally and then using FTP to upload the changes to your web server. At worst it could require manually editing files, and making database changes. In February last year I wrote about how [...]
Speeding up a WordPress blog with caching
I decided to investigate some methods of speeding up page load times on my this blog. An obvious way to do this seemed to be to add some caching to the site to reduce the load on the MySQL server. Searching for WordPress caching information gives a lot of references to adding a define('WP_CACHE', true); line to your wp-config.php file. However [...]
Adding ‘Related Posts’ to WordPress articles and 404 error pages
Many blogs have a list of related articles after each of their posts. I wanted something similar for my WordPress blog but found it wasn't as easy to do as I thought it would be. At the same time I was interested in capturing any access attempts to non-existent pages (causing a 404 error), and showing a list of suggested links. This is something [...]
