Articles Archive for April 2008
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Feed readers: my feed reader currently doesn’t display any of the content from Simply-Basic.com, only the title of the post. Are you getting the content? I’m wordering if it’s my reader or if something is misconfigured on the blog. If you can read this, drop by and let me know if it shows up!
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Announcements, WordPress »
My Smart Ads WordPress plugin just got smarter! Smart Ads has been upgraded to version 1.1.1, adding two requested features: the ability to disable all ads for logged in members and the ability to exclude ads from entire categories. Here’s the full list:
Smart Ads Plugin 1.1.1
- Show ads above and below post content automatically
- Only show ads on single.php or page.php, not homepage
- Limit ad visibility by post word count
- Limit ad visibility by post age
- Limit ad visibility by category NEW!
- Selectively disable ads on a post-by-post basis
- Disable all ads for registered blog members NEW!
- Add custom ads to posts or pages by typing
<!-smartads->in your post text - Limit custom ads to be shown on only single post view or enable them on the…
Tutorial/How-To, WordPress »
Those writing plugins for WordPress 2.5 may be wondering how to update their plugin’s options menu to reflect the new style sheet. While writing my recently-released Smart Ads WordPress plugin I discovered a few new CSS class names that will help your plugin integrate into the options menu seamlessly. Here’s how to do it.
Styling the Options Page
The CSS styling names for the options menu has changed slightly since WordPress 2.3 and earlier. A lot of plugins have an options menu in the “Settings” area of the admin console (this occurs when the admin_menu action hook is used). The following code reflects the current CSS names.
Code:
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Announcements »
Just a quick note to my RSS subscribers: you may notice a large number of new posts in your feed. They are actually old posts. I just increased the number of posts that WordPress sends to the RSS feed so that new subscribers can get as many as 50 old posts. So sorry if I’ve flooded your reader today!
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I’m happy to announce my newest plugin called Smart Ads, a plugin that let’s you automatically, yet intelligently place advertisements (like Google’s Adsense) into your posts. It’s a small plugin I whipped together over the last several days. Although there are a lot of “advertisement enhancing” plugins, none quite did what I wanted. So I made one that did. Here’s a list of it’s features:
- show ads above and below post content automatically
- only show ads on single.php or page.php, not homepage
- limit ad visibility by post word count
- limit ad visibility by post age
- selectively disable ads on a post-by-post basis
- Add custom ads to posts or pages by typing
<!-smartads->in your post text - Limit custom ads to…
Smart Ads v. 1.0.1
Announcements, Tech News »
In the world of simple WordPress plugins, my Admin Favicon plugin surely ranks right up there at the top. I’m happy to say that between the plugin’s home here on Simply-Basic and it’s home at WP-Extend it has been downloaded over 1,000 times!
It also just got a nice review by Ronald at Weblog Tools Collection. I’ve added a link to the video on the plugins page. If you haven’t heard of “Admin Favicon” yet, it’s a plugin that allows you to add a custom favicon to your WordPress administrative console. It’s a simple solution for a simple problem!
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