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:

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

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

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

And then find the statement of <?php endwhile; ?>, and add the post count code before, when you finish it will look like this:

<?php $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) { ?>
<!--  your ad code -->
<?php }?>

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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 <?php get_header(); ?>.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Archives
*/
?>

2. Add this code below the function <?php the_content(); ?>, or replace the function as you like.

<?php
// 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 .= '<p>' . $text . '&nbsp;(&nbsp;<span>' . count($postresults) . '</span>&nbsp;posts&nbsp;)</p>';
 $output .= "<ul class='archiveslist'>\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;
 $title_text = 'read more &quot;' . wp_specialchars($text, 1) . '&quot;';
 $output .= '    <li>' . mysql2date('m-d', $postresult->post_date) . ':&nbsp;' . "<a href='$url' title='$title_text'>$text</a>";
 $output .= '&nbsp;(' . $postresult->comment_count . ')';
 $output .= "</li>\n";
 }
 }
 $output .= "</ul>\n\n";
 }
 }
 update_option('hfy_archives_'.$lastpost,$output);
 }
 else{
 $output = '<strong>'. __('ERROR:') .'</strong> '. __('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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Colorful Tag Cloud

If you have installed the simple tags wordpress plugin, you can use the function <?php st_tag_cloud(); ?> 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.

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//Start of colorful tag cloud
function colorCloud($text) {
 $text = preg_replace_callback('|<a (.+?)>|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 "<a $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.

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

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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 '| <a href="'.admin_url(">del</a> ';
		echo '| <a href="'.admin_url(">spam</a>';
	}
}

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.

<?php 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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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 <? phpand ?>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('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/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.

<a title="<?php printf( __( 'Permalink to %s' ), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>" rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
<img class="thumbnail" src="<?php echo catch_that_image() ?>" alt="" /></a>

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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1. Advertisement and Sponsor

• Google Adsense
• ADToll [Register]
• Performancing Ads [Register]

Advertisement maybe the easily and usual way to make money. All the things you should do just register the Publisher Account, and put the AD code into you blog. After that, you just wait and get your money when somebody chick your ADs. Of course, you can sale your ADs monthly or weekly, and get a moderate income every month or every week.

How much you can earn from Advertisement depend on your site traffic. If you don’t have the high traffic, maybe that’s a hard for your money blogging. So you should try the other ways.

2. Write paid reviews

• Sponsored Reviews [Register]
• Review Me
• Blogsvertise [Register]
• Paying Post [Register]
• Pay per post

There are companies want to hire somebody to review their products for the promotion, that was the Marketing Topics. You can find the XXX form the above-mentioned list after your get the Publisher Account. Finish the topics on time, and then get your paid.

How much you earn depend on the Alexa Rank, back links or other information of your blog. So it’s importance that built a good blog before make the money blogging.

3. Sale text link ADs

• Text Link Ads [Register]
• Back links [Register]
• Link Worth [Register]

Text links ad sell is another easy way to make money, some great bloggers can earn more than $1000/month from text link ads. The prices of your ads depend on the Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank of you website. You just put the text links in your website after somebody have paid. Though it’s a easy ways to earn, you should remember don’t sale text links about Grambling and Eroticism, and it will make your website be punished by Google and other search engines.

Google allow you to sale the text links which is related to your website or using the “no follow” label. So to be honest when your are making money blogging is very important.

4. Affiliate

Affiliate is something just like Advertisement, but it’s different between them. Many blog marketing website have the affiliate system. If you bring some numbers to this blog marketing website, when they consume or earn a certain amount of money, you can get your paid.

So if you want to start money blogging, you can click register link to join the blog marketing website listed upwards. After you get the first bucket of gold, I can get my paid.

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In fact, you can do the SEO job with adding some code in the wordpress theme header.php file instead of using the SEO plugin, and no setting any more!!

The first thing is optimizing the blog title and post title. Copy and paste the code replace the title code in header.php file before <?php wp_head(); ?>.

<?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { ?>
<?php wp_title('',true); ?> | <?php } bloginfo('name'); ?>

Secondly, optimize the description and keywords, copy and paste the code after </title> label.

<? if (is_home()){
 $description = "your description ";
 $keywords = "your keywords";
 }
 elseif (is_single()){
 if ($post->post_excerpt) {
 $description     = $post->post_excerpt;
 } else {
 $description = substr(strip_tags($post->post_content),0,220);
 }
 $keywords = "";
 $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
 foreach ($tags as $tag ) {
 $keywords = $keywords . $tag->name . ", ";
 }}
 ?>
 <meta name="keywords" content="<?=$keywords?>" />
 <meta name="description" content="<?=$description?>" />

It will show the description and keywords you set when it’s at the home page. When it’s in the single post page, it will get the post tags as the keywords, and get the post  excerpt or the first 220 chars of the post as the description.

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That was the my first feeling to snow, and now I will show you how to let your blog snow. If you are using a wordpress blog, there’s an easy way to make the snow effect. You can see the demo at the header of my blog. Just copy and paste this code between <body> and </body> in you wordpress theme.

<!–Snowing–>
<script type="text/javascript" >
var customizedHeight = 130;
var aw_snow_jssrc = '%3Cscript type="text/javascript"';
aw_snow_jssrc += 'src="http://vosforever.app';
aw_snow_jssrc += 'spot.com/static/snow.js"%3E%3C/script%3E';
document.write(unescape(aw_snow_jssrc));
</script>
<!–Snowing–>

The value of customizedHeight means you snow effect height form top to down. You can change it as you like.

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