Why you should not increase the number of articles on your homepage
This is a long title for an article, my apologies for that but I was not able to squeeze it into fewer words. Wordpress lets the administrator select the amount of preview articles that appear on the homepage and on every other page. The default value is ten which means that every page (blogurl/page/number) will contain that amount of articles specified.
Google and other Search Engines index those pages and users can find them when searching for keywords. Now, if you increase the amount of articles shown on one page one side effect can hurt your status in Google. Lets say you have 100 articles and a default value of 10 articles per page.
You have decided to raise that amount to 20 articles per page. This means that the last five pages that have been indexed by Google and other Search Engines are not existing anymore. blogurl/page/6 leads to a 404 not found error as do all other pages after that.
Commission Junction Module for ALinks
September 13, 2007 by martin
Filed under afffiliate, make money
ALinks is a very useful plugin for Wordpress that allows the blog owner to define keywords and assign links to those keywords. The plugin then adds those links in realtime to the blog post which has several advantages. The first is that you do not have to edit several posts if a link to a website has changed. The same holds true if you want to change the advertisement.
Lets assume you promoted an iPod summer special which recently ran out. Instead of editing the links in your blog posts you simply change the url of the keyword once from within your Wordpress admin panel.
We all know that context related advertisement works much better than banners that are placed somewhere on the outside of the article. Let me give you another example to explain what Alinks really does.
The first step is to select a keyword which can be one word or a phrase and use one of the modules available to add a link. Modules are tiny forms that are used to create special links. There is one module for general links which would mean that you can enter a url and the keyword would automatically be converted to a link to that url.
Other possibilities are Clickbank, Linkshare and Amazon links that can be added as easily. One thing that was missing though was a module for Commission Junction links which I created and added to my list of modules.
Commission Junction uses a combination of links and images that have to be added to be valid and earn for you. My Alinks Commission Junction module lets you add the image url and the link url so that both are added when you add new keywords.
I’m using this Alinks module to create specific links to keyword phrases and it is working very fine. The only problem is that there is some whitespace after the link because of the image that is added afterwards. The image is only 1 pixel in size but the space is visible.
Read More:
Download Alinks Commission Junction Module
Download Alinks Plugin
Wordpress more tag and full feeds
If you use the more tag in your articles in Wordpress to cut off the article you might have noticed that the feeds get cut off at the same position even though you selected to provide full feeds of your articles. There is no obvious way to change this behavior and it took some time until I found the solution to this problem.
You will have to edit the file post-template.php in wp-includes. Open the file and search for the following string
if ( preg_match('/ (.+?)?
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 now
Only seven days after the release of Wordpress 2.0.7 Wordpress 2.1 has been released. It contains some major changes, security fixes and performance improvements and should be installed immediately if you are running a Wordpress blog. It is always sad to see when a Wordpress blog gets defaced because the site owner did not update to the latest version immediately after it was released.
You can download the latest version of Wordpress from the official website. Upgrading to 2.1 is very easy. It is recommended to backup all the files and the database and disable all plugins before you upload the new files and run the upgrade.php file.