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A very fast loading and search engine optimized Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme, BlueSense is specifically designed for all types of niche websites and will suit a wide variety of content and user preferences.

Built for heavy monetization with Adsense, the entire theme’s colors are perfectly blended with Adsense units on both homepage and single post pages for a maximum click through rate.

Other classic features of this Adsense Ready Theme:

• Separate Ad Blocks with easy editing and insertion of Adsense code. These ad blocks can also be used to insert other types of advertisements as well.
• Ease of use and convenience. You just need to insert your Adsense publisher ID in the existing ad units and you’re ready to go. It only takes 20 seconds to set up BlueSense perfectly.
• Well blended link units within the horizontal menu bar attracts navigational-style clicks from most visitors.
• Optimized Ads on the single post page. This includes a 468 x 60 Banner across the top of the post, a wide 160 x 600 skyscraper beside the post and a 336 x 280 rectangle below the post.
• Adsense unit colors are already blended with blog link and text colors. No need to pick and match colors on your part.
• Search Engine Optimized and dynamic individual page titles, which places your keyword post titles before the blog name.
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.0+ and above.

Important User Notes

Remember to change the Publisher ID for the default Adsense units after you upload the theme! You’ll need to get your publisher id (e.g. pub-xxxxxx) and insert this in all the Adsense units, which are found in the following files:

For Single Post Pages:

• Single_bottom_adverts.php - (336 x 280 Rectangle)
• Single_top_adverts.php - (468 x 60 Banner)

For Link Unit in the Menu Bar:

• Header_adverts.php - (Link units)

Customizing the Header with your own Banner

To insert your own header image, you need to take the following steps:

1. Go to your stylesheet (style.css) and look for this “#header“. You should see the following code:

   padding-top: 0px;
   background: #ffffff
   height: 130px;

2. Insert this code (in bold): url(’header.jpg’) top center no-repeat; right after “background: #ffffff ” on the same line.
3. The new header section should look like this (The new code is highlighted in bold).:
   margin-bottom: 0px;
   margin-top: 0px;
   text-align: center;
   padding-top: 0px;
   background: #ffffff url(’header.jpg’) top center no-repeat;
   height: 130px;
4. The header image that you want to use must be uploaded to the same folder as the other theme files and should be named ‘header.jpg‘
5. The header image size should be 815 (width) x 130 (height) but you can easily change the height of the image.

This theme is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license and requires you to keep the author’s credit link.

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AdSense Revenue Sharing is a wordpress plugin which allows you to easy display ads in your posts by using a quicktag and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors. To dispaly the ads you can either insert anywhere in your post or use the quicktag button. For configuration go to Options > Revenue Sharing.

• Nice admin area with live ad preview
• Add as many co-authors as you desire
• Simple add/edit/delete/reset co-authors
• Fast insert your ads in you posts and pages
• “Show all” feature to insert one ad at the end of every post

Download: AdSense Revenue Sharing 1.2 »

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If your WordPress blog uses AdSense, and you love Firefox you will love this plugin. Makes you money and makes the web a better place. When a user downloads and installs Firefox through your referral, we’ll credit your account with up to $1.00 (more details »).

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Description

AskApache Firefox Adsense is a simple plugin that displays a Firefox AdSense Ad (Google Referrals) on your blog.

The cool thing is that it will only show the ad to users that are not using Firefox, and only to users running Windows. Those are the requirements to getting paid by Google, and it doesn’t show the Ad to the intelligent people already using Firefox (or running linux/non-windows).

Google:

Firefox plus Google Toolbar: When a user you’ve referred to Firefox plus Google Toolbar runs Firefox for the first time, you’ll receive up to US$1 in your account, depending on the user’s location. Your referral must be a Windows user, who has not previously installed Firefox, in order for you to receive credit.

Installation

1. Upload aa-firefox-adsense.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Unzip into its own folder /wp-content/plugins/aa-firefox-adsense/aa-firefox-adsense.php
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress by clicking “AskApache Firefox Adsense”
4. Go to your Options Panel and open the “AskApache Firefox Adsense” submenu. /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=aa-firefox-adsense.php
5. Enter in your google firefox adsense code and hit the “Update Values” Button.
6. Add the code on your pages by including <?php if(function_exists(’aa_firefox_ad’))aa_firefox_ad();?> in your templates (1 per page, 1 ad per page).

Download: AskApache Firefox Adsense Plugin »

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Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.

In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.

If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

Secret lives of blogs

Since 2.5 your wp-config.php file allows a new constant called SECRET_KEY which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key for your config file. (It’s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.

Many thanks to Steven Murdoch for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.

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WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

For a short overview of the features with screenshots, it’d be best to visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1. Or check out a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action. If you just want to jump straight to the good stuff here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information.

If you want to see everything I would grab a cup of coffee or a mojito, because this post is epic.

User Features

Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard — we’ve worked hard to take your feedback about what’s most important in the dashboard and organize things to allow you to focus on what’s important — your blog — and get out of your way. In collaboration with Happy Cog and the community we’ve taken the first major step forward in the WordPress interface since version 1.5.

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“There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I’m always asked the question “Is Wordpress better than Blogger?”. The answer, of course, is “Yes”. But to really understand why, it’s important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need. Here’s the comparison scale:

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“I was looking for a simple simple Wordpress plugin that just inserted Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. All the ones I found would only replace an Adsense comment with Adsense code. That’s great if you want to go through every article you have and post little adsense tags, but for a site that has some bulk to it, it sucks.

It also increased banner blindness by keeping the ads in the same place time after time.

My new Adsense Injection plugin just takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages. It lets you pick how many total ads to show at any time as well (0-3) and it lets you set the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.

I’m using it on this blog if that gives you an idea of how it works.

Version 2.0 Let’s you show YPN ads as well as Google, although I can’t test it because they wouldn’t give me an account in their precious beta launch. : (

If you want to keep ads from displaying on specific posts, use the tag in the post HTML somewhere. I do that on a few posts on this site. Go look for them. It’s like a treasure hunt where no one wins!

If you want to keep ads from displaying above a certain point in a post, use the tag in the post HTML where you want it to start.

Here’s an example of how to fill out the Adsense Injection Options page. Use your own adsense ID.”

Read more on the official site »

Download: Adsense Injection v. 2.0

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WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, you can get the entire release here.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly.  While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.

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Introduction

“AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It was developed for my own use after an exhaustive search for a similar tool turned up nothing adequate.

Have you added Google AdSense to your WordPress blog yet? Or maybe thought about it? I was thinking about this last year and knew I could do it generically in the templates, or painfully by pasting the AdSense code into each post I wanted it in, but neither seemed like the optimal way to accomplish my aims. I wanted some flexibility in deciding which posts ads appear in and perhaps some control of which ad format would display in any given blog post.

I found Phil Hord’s AdSense WordPress plugin and gave it a test. It’s simplicity was great and it offered some of the control I thought I wanted while avoiding template changes. Phil’s plugin is configured by pasting your AdSense code into the plugin PHP file, then adding an HTML comment (“<!–adsense–>”) anywhere in a post, then your ads are substituted for the placeholder when the post is served. The plugin operates in the common role of a WordPress filter hook. Read the rest of this entry »

This theme might look pretty basic… that’s because it is!

The theme has been designed to be quickly added to any WordPress site with no customisation. There is no need to alter header images because there aren’t any… like Kubrick it relies on text generated from your blogs title and description, and also from the category and post descriptions.

AdSense is integrated (3 units per page, and one linkunit ~ the maximum Google allows), and the theme also includes AdSense for search in place of the standard WordPress search function. Of course, it is easy to switch out AdSense for any other advertising program you may wish to use, the banners are standard sizes. Read the rest of this entry »