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How to Add Advertisement Between Posts in WordPress

Alex — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:05:54 +0000

The advertisement is the best and easiest way for money blogging. Most of us like to put the advertisement in the sidebar and in the post. As we know the more advertisement you show the more earning you get. So we should think about how to increase advertisements friendly and effectively.

The bottom of the first post in your home page is a good position for advertisements. The readers will take note of what is it at the bottom of the first post. If there is a size of 468X60 ads, it will be blended in your blog perfectly.

The advertisement in the bottom of first post in home page

If you want add the great ads in the home page, you can get start from the index.php file of your wordpress theme. Find the statement of:

 while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

Add this code before that statement, and it should be like this:

 $postcount = '1'; ?> while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

And then find the statement of , and add the post count code before, when you finish it will look like this:

 $postcount ++;endwhile; ?>

Now you can add the advertisement between the while and endwhile function, using same format like the below code, you can change the number to change how many post with advertisements.

 if($postcount<= 1) { ?>

 }?>

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Post tags: Advertisement, Hacks, Money Blogging, Tutorial

How to Create Archives Page without Any Plugin in WordPress

Alex — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:30:34 +0000

The archives page can show how many articles you have been write, and when you wrote this articles. There are many wordpress plugin that can build your wordpress archives page, such as Clean Archives Reloaded, WP-EasyArchives and so on.

If you do not like to use so much wordpress plugin, you can build the archives page yourself. Do some copy-edit to your page.php file, you can have your own archives page.

1. Copy you page.php file of your wordpress theme and rename it as archives.php. Add this code to the header of the file before .


/*
Template Name: Archives
*/
?>

2. Add this code below the function , or replace the function as you like.


// echo archives start
$lastpost = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date <'" . current_time('mysql') . "' AND post_status='publish' AND post_type='post' AND post_password='' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1");
$output = get_option('hfy_archives_'.$lastpost);
 
if(empty($output)){
 $output = '';
 $wpdb->query("DELETE FROM $wpdb->options WHERE option_name LIKE 'hfy_archives_%'");
 // Get all of the months that have posts
 $monthquery = "SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) AS year, MONTH(post_date) AS month, count(ID) as posts FROM " . $wpdb->posts . " WHERE post_date <'" . current_time('mysql') . "' AND post_status='publish' AND post_type='post' AND post_password='' GROUP BY YEAR(post_date), MONTH(post_date) ORDER BY post_date DESC";
 $monthresults = $wpdb->get_results($monthquery);
 
 if ($monthresults) {
 // Loop through each month
 foreach ($monthresults as $monthresult) {
 $thismonth    = zeroise($monthresult->month, 2);
 $thisyear    = $monthresult->year;
 
 // Get all of the posts for the current month
 $postquery = "SELECT ID, post_date, post_title, comment_count FROM " . $wpdb->posts . " WHERE post_date LIKE '$thisyear-$thismonth-%' AND post_date AND post_status='publish' AND post_type='post' AND post_password='' ORDER BY post_date DESC";
 $postresults = $wpdb->get_results($postquery);
 
 if ($postresults) {
 // The month year title things
 $text = sprintf('%s %d', $month[zeroise($monthresult->month,2)], $monthresult->year);
 $postcount = count($postresults);
 $output .= '' . $text . ' ( ' . count($postresults) . ' posts )
';
 $output .= "\n";
 
 foreach ($postresults as $postresult) {
 if ($postresult->post_date != '0000-00-00 00:00:00') {
 $url = get_permalink($postresult->ID);
 $arc_title    = $postresult->post_title;
 if ($arc_title)
 $text = wptexturize(strip_tags($arc_title));
 else
 $text = $postresult->ID;
 $title_text = 'read more "' . wp_specialchars($text, 1) . '"';
 $output .= '    ' . mysql2date('m-d', $postresult->post_date) . ': ' . "$text";
 $output .= ' (' . $postresult->comment_count . ')';
 $output .= "
\n";
 }
 }
 $output .= "
\n\n";
 }
 }
 update_option('hfy_archives_'.$lastpost,$output);
 }
 else{
 $output = ''. __('ERROR:') .' '. __('No items were found to be displayed.') .'';
 }
}
 echo $output;
//echo archives end
?>

When you finish this coding, upload the archives.php file to your wordpress theme directory. At this point the archives functions have been created, and you can use it to show your archives posts.

Archives Template

Go to the dashboard, create a new page name as Archives and select the Archives as the page template. Click to see your new page after you publish it. You can see the archives page show all your wrote post by post.

The archives page can list the articles monthly and show the comment number at the end of each post. The list will update when you post a new articles, so don’t be confused when the list show the wrong comment number.

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How to Add Colorful Tag Cloud without Any Plugin in WordPress

Alex — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:43:49 +0000

The tags cloud page can show the most discussed topics to your readers.Using the wp_tag_cloud function can add the tag cloud in your wordpress page. You can learn more about wp_tag_cloud function from wordpress codex. But the default tag cloud in wordpress show in single color, it’s blankness and hard to read. So if you make the tag cloud show up colorful, the readers can easily get your main topics and know what are you talking about in your blog.

Colorful Tag Cloud

If you have installed the simple tags wordpress plugin, you can use the function to add the colorful tag cloud. But if you didn’t, we can tell you an easily way to add the colorful tag cloud without any plugin in wordpress. You can see the demo from my colorful tag cloud page.

Firstly, open the functions.php file in your theme directory, copy the subjacent code and paste it in your functions.php file.

//Start of colorful tag cloud
function colorCloud($text) {
 $text = preg_replace_callback('||i', 'colorCloudCallback', $text);
 return $text;
}
function colorCloudCallback($matches) {
 $text = $matches[1];
 $color = dechex(rand(0,16777215));
 $pattern = '/style=(\'|\")(.*)(\'|\")/i';
 $text = preg_replace($pattern, "style=\"color:#{$color};$2;\"", $text);
 return "$text>";
}
add_filter('wp_tag_cloud', 'colorCloud', 1);
//End of colorful tag cloud

Add the subjacent code to where you want the tag cloud show. And it’s done, you can see the colorful tag cloud in your wordpress blog now.

1	wp_tag_cloud( 'smallest=8&largest=24&number=50' ); ?>

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How to Add Spam and Delete Action Links to WordPress Comments

Alex — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:24:39 +0000

As we know, we just only can see the edit action link in the comments of wordpress blog when we logged in. If you want to delete or mark the comments as spam, we should click the edit action link ,go into dashboard and finish the manipulation.

And now, it’s easy to add the delete and spam action link to the comment template, and you can clean your comments easily from the post. Firstly, you should open the functions.php file and add this code.

Spam and Delete Link

function delete_comment_link($id)	{
	if (current_user_can('edit_post'))	{
		echo '| .admin_url(">del ';
		echo '| '.admin_url(">spam';
	}
}

And than, find the edit_comment_link function in your comment.php or the functions.php file, add this code after the edit_comment_link function.

delete_comment_link(get_comment_ID());

Your edit link code may look like this.

 edit_comment_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); delete_comment_link(get_comment_ID()); ?>

If you don’t like coding, you can try the WP AJAX Edit Comment plugin. It’s an awesome and powerful wordpress plugin.

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How to Get Thumbnail Automatically from WordPress Posts

Alex — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:07:39 +0000

If you are the Hybrid WordPress theme user, you may found that the Hybrid theme can get the thumbnail form your blog without any setting. Not only the Hybrid but also all the child theme of Hybrid can do this. Sometimes, your reader can easily know the content from the post title with the thumbnail. You can see the demo form here.

It’s not too difficult to you if you know a little PHP coding. There’s en easy way to show the thumbnail in your blog. And you must add some code to the functions.php file in your wordpress theme directory.

Open the functions.php file with some code editor and plaster this code between the and ?>in your functions.php file, and then save it.



function catch_that_image() {
 global $post, $posts;
 $first_img = '';
 ob_start();
 ob_end_clean();
 $output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);
 $first_img = $matches [1] [0];
 if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
 $first_img = "your default Thumbnail URL";
 }
 return $first_img;
}

This code means it can find the first photo of your posts and got it as the thumbnail, if there’s no photo in your post it will show what you set in $first_img. When you finish this coding, add this code in what you want the thumbnail show.

 title="" rel="bookmark" href=" the_permalink() ?>">
 class="thumbnail" src="" alt="" />>

In the end add this css code in your style.css file.

.thumbnail 	{float: left;width: 150px;height: 150px;margin: 0 12px 6px 0;padding: 3px;background: #eee;border: 1px solid #ddd;}
.sticky .thumbnail {background: transparent;border: 1px solid #000;}

And now it’s done, you can see the first photo of your post in the left side of your blog.

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