Firstly, I assume that you are quite similiar with PHP and (x)HTML code. Then, you should know some WordPress API. The fist function I mention is is_categoty(). This function will help you decide which banners, text links or any content will display or not in particular categories. For example:
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1. < ?php if (is _categoty(”Linux”) ) { ?>
2.
3. //Advertising content which is relevant to Linux topic should be put here.
4.
5. < ?php } else if (is _categoty(”Vista”) || is _categoty(”XP”)) { ?>
6.
7. //Advertising content which is relevant to Windows XP and Vista topic should be put here.
8.
9. < ?php } else { ?>
10.
11. // Default advertising content should be put here.
12.
13. < ?php } ?>

< ?php if (is _categoty(”Linux”) ) { ?> //Advertising content which is relevant to Linux topic should be put here. < ?php } else if (is _categoty(”Vista”) || is _categoty(”XP”)) { ?> //Advertising content which is relevant to Windows XP and Vista topic should be put here. < ?php } else { ?> // Default advertising content should be put here. < ?php } ?>

(These lines should be put in your theme files, such as header.php or sidebar.php, footer.php)

To implement this concept in real life, think about Chitika Advertising, then you have a section on your website or your blog in which, you review or write about new hardward products, that is really relevant if you put some Chitika eMiniMall advertising there and on your book review section, you put advertising from Amazon reference. This way, will significally increase your CPM ratio, then obtain the maximized profit from many sources.

You should have a clear and well-organized network of advertising banners or text links, then create particular sections, which will have a relevant content.

Hope you find this tip useful.

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A good solution is to use a blank Wordpress theme witch come without any pre-formatted style in it.

This layout has the menu sat at the left-hand side of the content, giving the layout a traditional look and feel. Because this layout is fixed, it will not scale with different browser sizes and therefore you don’t have to take scaling into consideration when creating your design.
Features:
- Fixed Layout
- 2 Columns
- Traditional Look And Feel
Download:
- click here to download

This layout has its menu positioned to the left of the content like the one above. The only difference between the two is this one has a Fluid layout. That means that it will scale with different browser sizes.
Features:
- Fluid Layout
- 2 Columns
- Traditional Look And Feed
Download:
- click here to download

This layout has the menu sat at the right-hand side of the content, giving the layout a modern look and feel. Because this layout is fixed, it will not scale with different browser sizes and therefore you don’t have to take scaling into consideration when creating your design.
Features:
- Fixed Layout
- 2 Columns
- Modern Look And Feel
Download:
- click here to download

This layout has its menu positioned to the right of the content like the one above. The only difference between the two is this one has a Fluid layout. That means that it will scale with different browser sizes.
Features:
- Fluid Layout
- 2 Columns
- Modern Look And Feel
Download:
- click here to download

Download Wordpress QuickStart Guide 2 (PDF Version)
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Read the Wordpress QuickStart Guide 2 on-line
Summary

The first two chapters are a very short introduction to what blogging stands for, how it works and installing WP. Further in the book, it is said one could install WP on the pre-installed Apache Server that goes with Mac OSX. You can install WP in more ways but you have easy and less easy — all depending on your knowledge of databases, using the command-line or MySQL for one! Gladly In the end after a succesful WP install — you are ready to post!

So that’s it? No way (!!), all eager bloggers will want to customize their blog and above all manage it — permit me this slight exaggeration — how do we tame the WP beast ? In chapter 2, you learn how to set the blog options in the administration panel aka the Dashboard that goes with WP.

In chapter 3 Adding Content we delve further into the features of the WP admin panel that enable us to write some content aka posts and associate posts with one or more categories of your choice! Of course, we learn how to format, edit and delete posts and pages, with help of the rich text editor and other features build-in the admin interface. Screenshots of the editor with a step-by-step guide show how you can format your content, add links and images (even without any knowledge of HTML).

With the adminpanel you can manage your posts and pages — equally important! In this chapter we get to know to manage images and links as well. Often you might like to upload images or import a series of links — and you can of course.

A blog can enable/disable comments for each post you write! The very short chapter 4 is dedicated to moderating comments. Comments can be deleted when inappropriate, and we have to deal with spam treats. Fortunately, we learn in this chapter how to activate Aksimet, a descent spam filter!

A WP blog has at least one user, but this can be extended to many users. In this chapter 5, you see a handy table that shows what user roles and capabilities can be assigned to the administrator of a WP blog. Basically you learn how to manage these accounts.

Fadtastic.net recently released its own theme - the Fadtastic theme. Forgive me this shameless self promotion! You can install and browse through many other WP themes. Mostly people customize existing themes but you can start from scratch as well. Again this depends on your knowledge of how the WP template is build, your expertise in creating your own imagery and CSS trickery. In this chapter 6, we are introduced to the template files of WordPress — a mixture of HTML and PHP. Luckily, a basic understanding of how the PHP templates work can be intimidating at first but reveals its functionality soon enough.

The infamous WP loop is basically a chunk of PHP that essentially displays your posts and pages you authored in the WP admin panel!

Customizing the appearance of the default theme, or any pre-build WP theme is hereby limited to creating a different look– personalized to your taste: enter the power of CSS. One could argue that even with the many available WP themes - many blogs look like clones. But again that is up to you — it takes devotion, talent and good content to do that!

We end this chapter with some tips on validating our beloved HTML and CSS. Eat your heart out, standardistas!

In chapter 7 Plugins for WP deals with some handy plugins to enhance your default WP installation. In short, you get to know how to enable useful plugins from the admin panel. Some plugins are handy to add functionality you would otherwise never could enable yourself. You can make also your own but would require very advanced skills most of the time. I won’t stop you from trying though!

In this chapter you learn how to simply add author info, web stats, favicons, google ads to your WP blog. This is rather a short chapter.

You are not limited to using the default WP admin panel, there are other solutions to manage your WP blog. We see in Blogging tools some blogging authorware compared which can be used in WP.
Unfortunately, it is mostly shareware. But it exists, good to know!

In the final chapter Advanced tasks, you get familiar with some advanced stuff you can do within WP. In quick flight, we see alternative ways to edit posts while directly accessing the database, how to do podcasting in WP, import posts from other blogging engines, RSS feeds and other interesting to know stuff.

The book offers appendices with useful links about all aspects of WP blogging!
Criticism

The book has a great lay-out! See the overview:

* Two columns per page, easy-to-read blocks of text and screenshots to illustrate the step-by-step guide.
* Gray vertical tabs on every page to guide you where you are in the chapter.
* Each action you need to take to manage your blog in the admin panel of WP is explained like a step-by-step guide where the more easy to grasp defined features and terms are presented like hierarchical lists.
* Each chapter explains differences between wordpress.com blogs — a different install with less options — and WP installed on your own webhost.
* Each time when something is not further explained, you get to know in which chapter you will learn more.
* We get handy tips in each chapter, not seldom referring to a link of http://codex.wordpress.org.
* Also we get warnings when we might do something unintended but completely wrong.

But it does not help to find or refind stuff you need easily. The structure of the book is hopping from one detail to another. And some chapters like shareware blogger software or plugins are just add-ons.

At times we get links to other books about CSS or PHP from the same publisher (again no pun intended). But is a little obvious when you know these books are sold as a series of. The book has a great lay-out! But the content looks cluttered. The book explains many things but too simple!

Anyone can change a template, but the authors keep their hands of PHP, which is WP’s backend.

Each chapter refers again and again to differences between wordpress.com blogs — a different install with less options — and WP installed on your own webhost. We get handy tips in each chapter, not seldom referring to a link of http://codex.wordpress.org. One could read the codex instead perhaps.

As the author says - any tweaking of these PHP functions requires advanced knowledge of PHP, and is beyond the scope of this book. What you do get to know, is what each chunk of code does: what piece of code displays the post title, how to change the date format of a post and so on. Thus, meaning small changes! (most people can do that basic stuff)
Who should read this book

Only beginners that never used wordpress before. Advanced users would not find this book interesting.

AUTHOR: http://fadtastic.net/2007/01/24/wordpress-2-a-visual-quickstart-guide/

Chances are, if you created a password protected directory alongside your WordPress installation, trying to access it lead to you to a WordPress 404 error (which may just look like the homepage of your blog if you don’t have a custom 404 error template file).

Well, there’s a solution. Initially, I found one solution at DianeV’s Developed Traffic which lead me to Ju-Ju which eventually lead to the TextPattern FAQ. It seems that TXP users were experiencing the same problem, and it’s because of an improper error document directive.

To get your password protected directories working again, create two files: 401.html and 403.html (they can be completely blank if you like). Then, add the following to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 401 /[path_to_file]/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /[path_to_file]/403.html

Save the changes and upload your new .htaccess file before your WordPress rewrite rules. Note: if you add these lines inside the WordPress rewrite rules, they will be overwritten each time you update your permalinks or made modifications which affects .htaccess in WordPress.

Remember: always make a back up of your files before making significant changes.

Side Note: If you don’t care to leave those two files blank, then simply put a friendly error message in each.

Error 401 is when the server requires authentication and it hasn’t been provided yet or the previous session is expired.

Error 403 is a way of saying that access to the directory is forbidden for whatever reason and it’s the one a person is likely to see if the login was incorrect or the authentication process was canceled.

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Written on Wednesday, June

To install a template is as simple as to install a plugin, just upload your template to wordpress’ template folder and install through the panel.

Here are the top 10 wordpress templates for download.

Redoable 1.0

Iceburgg

Gridlock

Hemingway

Gluded Ideas

Like Mr.Frind other designers, developers and blog owners are making money with their web sites. Take a look on the top 8 google adsense (individual) money makers (excluding major network site):

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month
3: Jeremy Schoemaker - $140,000 per month
4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month
5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month
7: Joel Comm - $24,000 per month
8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Like them, you can convert your blog into money and with some effort, discipline, time, a good niche and a bit of luck you can join the top 8 list above.

HOW TO CONVERT YOUR BLOG INTO MONEY:

1 - FIND A NICHE

Don’t try to create the new Google or my space and do not try to copy your favourite blog. To start to make money with your website you must have a identity and explore a specific niche. A targeted niche web site can achieve better positions on google and bring more visitors and page views.

2 - UPDATE DAILY

You can have the nicest website in the world, full of technology and with a perfect design but if don’t have this web site updated you will lost a plenty of regular users. Create a new post a day, make your site more interactive and always keep the focus on your niche.

3 - GO 2.0

Today your web site doesn’t need to depend only fo you. With wordpress you can allow other users to post in your website and get revenue from their posts. Remember to select posts specifics for your website’s niche.

4 - CHOOSE THE RIGHT AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Today you can choose from thousands of affiliates programs, however, some of them are not trustful or not pay as much as the big ones. Choose the most popular ones like Overture, Adsense, TextAds, Adbrite and others that have a good reputation.

5 - CHOOSE A GOOD ADS POSITION

You’ll probably loose a lot of money if you hide your ad in the page. Choosing a good position for your ad is not easy. Try to keep at list one ad near to the top and try different positions to see which one can have more clicks. Place your ad generated code in the Web site template to minimize your work.

6 - WORK HARD

A famous quote says that “Money often costs too much.” If you want to convert your site into money you’ll need more than a wordpress and a computer, you have to work hard. Some people left their jobs to try to make money with their web sites and soon after realize that they have to work more and harder than in the previous job to make the same amount of money. If you want to get paid you have to work.

It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Ads. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Ads is through trying it.

Good luck!

Click on the links to download

1 - Adsense Deluxe - offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Adsense Deluxe+ claims to have a an improved ad limiting algorithm.
2 - Adsense Injection - inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog.
3 - Adsense Inline - inserts Google adsense in blog posts
4 - Adsense Beautifier - makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings.
5 - AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar - Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
6 - MightyAdsense - allows you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Ads are displayed in post item and you can specify how many blocks its going to show up in a page.
7 - AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
8 - Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
9 - WP-AdsenseProfit - shows your profit from the adsense program to the public by adding a simple call to the function in your template.
10 - AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
11 - Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin - allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads.

It’s not mandatory install all pluggins, you can choose what suits you better.

Start making money with Adsense and Wordpress Now!

Plugins hosted on
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Click below to download:

WordPress MU 1.2.4.rar

WordPress MU 1.2.4.gz.tar

• Kses has been reverted so you can use class and id attributes in your HTML tags again.
• The installer has been smartened up and is now friendlier and may catch a few more problems before they arise.
• Lots and lots of bugs have been squashed. It’s been messy but they had to be exterminated.

Who is WordPress MU ideal for?

• Newspapers and magazines.
• Universities and Schools.
• Blog networks
• Niche-specific blog hosts, like Edublogs

If you’re comfortable with Subversion and merging file changes, then the list of changed files should come in useful. You can also download a diff file there if that suits.

HOW TO UPDATE

Update: After you update, go to “Site Admin->Themes” and click Save. That will update the allowed themes list because it was changed a few days ago.

Edit: a few issues with themes and .htaccess rewrite problem appeared overnight. These have been fixed now. If you updated to 1.2 then download the new 1.2.1 version and copy these files into your install:

• wp-admin/themes.php
• htaccess.dist
• wp-includes/version.php
• wp-admin/admin-db.php
• wp-admin/themes.php
• wp-admin/wpmu-themes.php

Ever dream of running hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress?

WordPress MU, or multi-user, is designed to do exactly that. It is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of millions of hits on hundreds of thousands of blogs each day.

You can use this plugin to insert a reddit button for your post.

This plugin automatically adds a button to the QuickTags toolbar in the post screen. Clicking the button will prompt you to insert the style of the button you wish to add.

If you are not using the Quicktags i.e. using the WYSIWYG or you want to do it manually, you can add <!--reddit_1--> or <!--reddit_2--> or <!--reddit_3--> where you want to display the button. For correct XHTML, make sure that the code is added on a new line.

Read more and download the reddit button plugin >>