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Adsense for WordPress

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Latest Version: 1.06
(updated on January 5th, 2012)

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Description:

Adsense for WordPress is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically. You can control all aspects of your ad’s display and position. Just specify ad color and position in the plugin options, your ad code is automatically generated and inserted. It also able to insert ads into your sidebar and header/footer.

Features:

  • Automatically insert Google Adsense or YPN ads in to your blog posts, sidebar and header/footer.
  • No manual work required, ad code is dynamically inserted into your existing and new posts.
  • You could optionally specify not to show ads in a post by using tag <!--noadsense-->
  • You could optionally specify where to start the ads in a post by using tag <!--adsensestart-->
  • You could optionally specify where to stop the ads in a post by using tag <!--adsensestop-->
  • Decrease ad blindness by giving you the option to randomly place your ad within your posts.
  • You could optionally define absolute ad position instead of random position.
  • You could optionally define random ad network to maximize earnings from both networks.
  • Allow you to pick how many total ads to show on one page.
  • Allow you to pick how many ads to show in one post.
  • Compatible with the new WP MU mode

Requirements:

Adsense for WordPress has been tested on WordPress 3.1.* or above.

Installation

Upload the folder adsense-for-wordpress into your wp-content/plugins
Log in to WordPress Administration area, choose Plugins from the main menu, find Adsense for WordPress, and click the Activate button
Choose Settings->WP Adsense from the main menu and enter your adsense account number. Then specify your ad color and position and click on the button “save settings and use as default”.

Change Log:
1/05/2012 : Version 1.06, fixed mix up of post and page in options page.

8/25/2011 : Version 1.04, fixed debug info displaying, updated instruction on the tags, fixed English translation missing in several places.

8/16/2011 : Version 1.02, added adblock warning and other fixes.

8/5/2011 : Initial Release, Version 1.0

Questions and Discussions:

Please leave your email and comment under this thread, or use the contact form. I will reply to them asap.

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Disclaimer: this plugin contains a donation option, which allow users to donate a small percentage of their earnings to the author of this plugin. When this option is enabled, the author’s adsense ads will occasionally appear on the plugin user’s website (determined by the percentage entered by the plugin user).

WP Post Icon

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Latest Version: 1.0
(updated on Feb. 15th, 2008)

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Description:

WP Post Icon is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which is enable blog authors to upload and automatically insert topic icons or images in to your posts on the fly. You can control the position of the icon. Just select which image to display when you are writing a post, it will be automatically displayed.

Features:

  • Automatically insert your topic icons in to your blog posts.
  • Very little manual work is required, just select which image to display when you are writing a new post.
  • You could also use no image at all.

Requirements:

WP Post Icon has been tested on WordPress 2.0.*, 2.1.* , 2.2.*, 2.3.* and 2.5.*.

Installation

  • Upload the folder “wp-post-icon” into your “wp-content/plugins”
  • Log in to WordPress Administration area, choose “Plugins” from the main menu, find “WP Post Icon”, and click the “Activate” button
  • Choose “Options->WP Post Icon” from the main menu and start uploading your images or icons. Then when you are writing a new post, you could select which image to display on the right side option bar.

Change Log:

2/15/2008 : Initial Release, Version 1.0

Questions and Discussions:

Enter the WP Post Icon Discussion Forum

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WordPress is all grown up, wins best CMS Award

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WordPress, which I had previously considered “just” a blogging engine, has been named the best open source Content Management System for social networking, beating Drupal and Elgg. (Picture from PhotoMatt.)The Judges commented on “WordPress’s ease of configuration, professional approach, usability and enthusiastic community,” awarding the project $2,000.

WordPress was started by Matt Mullenweg in 2003. He worked for a while at C|Net before founding Automattic, which hosts blogs, runs an anti-spam service called Akismet, and does other cool stuff.

ZDNet runs on WordPress, and I must admit that each new version of the software seems better than what came before. I also use Drupal at Voic.Us and my personal blog runs through Typepad, a hosted version of Movable Type.

The success of WordPress offers some great lessons about the Internet space, which many analysts still refuse to accept. Remember that by 2003  Google had already acquired Blogger. CMS systems like Drupal, Slash and Scoop were already well-established. Why would anyone need another blogging engine, let alone an open source CMS?

Yet just as Google was able to blow by Yahoo, which everyone in the late 1990s thought owned the search space (that’s why they expanded and became a portal), WordPress was able to blow by a unit of Google, and in relatively short order. Not to mention all those other competitors, who are not chopped liver. (I do like Typepad and Drupal.)

Any analyst who tells you anyone in the Internet owns anything, and that ownership is permanent, just isn’t living in the real world. Change remains possible. Leaders can be caught. If you’ve got a better mousetrap build it, and if it is better, if you run things right, you can win in the open source marketplace.

One more piece of wisdom. Stay humble.  Mullenweg calls his own blog PhotoMatt, and his announcement of this award was quite brief, a simple, one word celebration. “Yay!” He was unavailable for comment because he’s at an event in Argentina, having just acquired Gravatar.

Young man in a hurry in a very small world.

- by Dana Blankenhorn