Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
This is a post collecting some plugins and solutions I’ve found for WordPress. I’ll keep adding links as I find new things. Most of these are from posts in the WordPress category, but these are direct links to the hack/plugin itself, not to my posts about them (unless that’s the source of the hack), so it should be more handy.
WordPress errors:
WordPress 406 errors Not acceptable
WordPress “You don’t have ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
If you were using the old category dropdown template tags when WordPress suddenly deprecated them just to make your life slightly crappier, I have good news and bad news.
The good news is, there’s a new replacement tag.
The bad news is, I can only get the version with a submit button to work. The other one, I select a new category and it just sits there blinking stupidly at me.
Still, the ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Which do you do?
Until recently, I had just the excerpts, thinking it would drive readers to my sites and give me ad income. Then one day I realized how freakin’ annoyed I am by excerpts in feeds, and how often I unsub from them. So I went to full feed (I think – feel free to let me know if WordPress has borked up my settings again).
There did seem to ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Well, here’s something you need if you don’t want to (or can’t) actually check it in IE: Netrenderer.
I do have IE installed on my machines, and I check it manually. That hasn’t stopped the very same version of it from rendering very differently on a visitor’s computer. This tool may or may not catch the next weird glitch like that, but it’s one more weapon in the arsenal.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
I mentioned paying income tax on your online earnings the other day and talked about my suspicions that you also need to pay estimated taxes. LifeHacker’s found an easy way to do it: pay your estimated taxes online.Works for federal taxes and California state taxes. Most likely, other state tax boards allow this too, or will soon.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
There’s a very thought-provoking post on SugarRae about how affiliate marketing is changing and what you need to do to keep up. You don’t have to agree with every point, but read it and think about it. The core meaning boils down to this:
It used to be you could just build an affiliate site around a product, call it a day, and wait for sales to come in.
Then everyone did ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Several networks have recently dropped incentivized CPA offers while others are beefing up theirs. Is this the beginning of the end?
The very nature of incentives invites fraud. While you can definitely pair a very relevant freebie with a sale item to push someone over the edge and into the buy, you can also offer freebies that have little to do with the actions people have to take to get them. ...
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I’ve been saying a lot lately that there’s more to a link than its pagerank, and it’s a bad strategy to buy links in the hopes they will pass on PR. SEOmoz explains it much better than I possibly could, though. The post itself is highly detailed and useful:
This comment, too:
the original PR formula has so little to do with rankings nowadays that I’m inclined to largely overlook it. Besides ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I found a plugin today that very easily lets you create a horizontal drop down menu in the header of your WordPress template, with links to all your archives, categories, blogrolls and meta. It works very well just out of the box, but it’s pretty customizable, too. If you want to get that stuff out of your sidebar and have it look good, too, it’s a great option.
It would be ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
You do know that what you earn online is taxable, right?
It’s different in different countries – here’s a good summation of US tax laws – but people who work for themselves can get into very complicated tax situations. The comments on that linked post also contain some interesting insights – and a couple of very good questions.
In addition to all that, I’ve heard that I may need to pay estimated ...
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