http://www.mywordpress.co.uk A Monetized Wordpress Site using the Shifter Theme Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well several minutes ago I applied the latest Wordpess update ,currently 2.6.3 . I had updated another site of mine a few days ago and there seemed to be no issues so applied the update here also. http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/another-wordpress-upgrade/ Having tried out a few social networking plugins I have always found that they have slowed my sites down. But not one to be put off I have installed the Sociable Plugin by Joost de Valk now so far I have not had issues and the number of options are quite impressive. http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/sociable-plugin/ Way back in December 2007 I posted SEO is it a Con purely and simply because I had no understanding about SEO,I had just started this site and when investigating SEO it just seemed a big con. Well the better part of 12 months later have my views changed .Not really ,this ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/the-mystery-of-seo/ I have just installed the RecentPost Plug-in designed by Rob Marsh on this site and www.ipod2go.co.uk. This is so configurable I hardly no where to start.The basic idea is that it displays the most recent posts but added to this is the ability to show recent posts if the Tag matches or recent ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/recent-posts-plugin/ Up until now the only costs I have incurred for this site have been for the hosting and the Shifter Theme.This is due mainly to the amount of free plugins and support that the Wordpress community offer. I was looking for a way to import csv files into Wordpress and could not ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/import-csv-plugin/ So does loading your site with Affiliate links really pay dividends. I suspect given that my conversion rate is pretty low that there is some reluctance on the visitor to accept that there is nothing dodgy going on when they click on a link that takes them to a totally different ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/affiliate-links/ I have installed the plugin AdRotate by Arnan De Gans on this site and on www.ipod2go.co.uk . This Wordpress plugin will allow Add and manage the code from the dashboard and show a random banner, or multiple, on your site. The plugin supports groups for banners allowing you to tie certain banners ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/adrotate-by-arnan-de-gans/ Having deactivated the GD Star Rating plugin because of the issues encountered I started to search for a similar plugin to use on www.ipod2go.co.uk . Luckily I did not have to search for long before I found the WP-Postratings plugin by Lester 'GamerZ' Chan . This is a Ajaxified (is that a word) plugin ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/wp-postratings-by-lester-gamerz-chan/ I have used both Tradedoubler and AffiliateWindow for some time with a reasonable amount of success.One of the things that I found common with both was the difficulty in creating content units. Now this is more likely to be my ability then any fault with their setup but I need easy,this ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/paid-on-results/ After delving deeper into why the cformsII plugin would not install using the auto update.What I first thought were a load of different errors actually related to write permissions (or so I thought). I CHMOD the cformsII directory and subdirectories to 777 using FileZilla (allow writing etc) and tried the auto ... http://www.mywordpress.co.uk/cformsii-update-to-26-resolved/