WP Hide Post

Have been investigating the WordPress Plugin WP Hide Post today.

This plugin gives you the ability to control the visibility of items on your WordPress site.

The following options are available.

Hide on the front page
Hide on category pages
Hide on tag pages
Hide on author pages
Hide in date archives (month, day, year, etc)
Hide in search results
Hide in feeds

This seems a well thought out plugin that makes the task of managing your content that bit easier.

Theme Switch Update to 0.7.3.1

Have just updated the Theme Switch Plugin to the latest version .

Updated nice and easy but I noticed a slight problem which has nothing to do with the plugin but it might give you issues.

I have Buddypress integrated into this site when switching to the standard BudddyPress theme using Theme Switcher the widget disappears so you are unable to switch back.

Now I think this may also occur if the widget is placed in a sidebar area that does not exist in the theme you switch to.

Now the latest version excludes the default WordPress themes which gave me the idea how to solve this.

If you find this piece of code in widget.php

if ( $option['config']['exclude'] == ‘Enable’ ) {
    if ( $theme_name == ‘WordPress Classic’ || $theme_name == ‘WordPress Default’ || $theme_name == ‘Twenty Ten’  ) 

and add in any other theme you want to exclude for instance to exclude the standard BuddyPress Theme do this

if ( $option['config']['exclude'] == ‘Enable’ ) {
    if ( $theme_name == ‘WordPress Classic’ || $theme_name == ‘WordPress Default’ || $theme_name == ‘Twenty Ten’ || $theme_name == ‘BuddyPress Default’ ) 

Problem solved hope this helps .

Affiliate Earnings Revisited April 2010

Thought I would give a quick update on how my revenue is doing since my last post at the beginning of November 2009 .

As you can see from the graph above the earnings from PaidonResults have stayed very healthy .

For anybody who is looking to generate some income from their site I strongly recommend PaidonResults purely because of its ease of use.

WordPress 1.1 Test

Thought I would do a quick test post from my Blackberry using WordPress 1.1 .

I have enabled add location to test out what it does.

Its still a pain entering custom fields and their values but hopefully a easier way will be developed as WordPress for Blackberry matures.

WordPress 1.1 for Blackberry

Have just installed the latest version of WordPress on my Blackberry which as recently been released .

This version gives the following enhancements

Quite interested in the Geo Tagging of posts shall test it out later today.

AutoBlogging

AutoBlogging is it moral

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WordPress for Blackberry Templates

One of the things I would love to see is the ability to save local templates on my Blackberry.

This would make it so much easier when using custom fields rather then having to re key them each time.

Unless someone knows a way of doing this?

Managing Datafeeds

Further to this recent post about my attempts to generate Adsense revenue the main content for www.ilostit.co.uk is a Data Feed from PaidonResults .

On the surface this seems an easy way to generate content for your site but all is not as straight forward as one would hope.

The biggest problem I found was what I consider to be ‘Malformed Datafeeds’ that is to say the use of punctuation within the data feed files.

For example if a comma exists within the data feed this invariably breaks the posts created from the upload.

Even when using  the WordPress CSV and Datafeed Import Plugin ,which is in my opinion the best in data feed manager , with its templating method I have still not found a way to clean up the data feed using the plugin alone.

The solution I came up with was to clean up the data feed locally prior to using the WordPress CSV and Datafeed Import Plugin to create the posts.

So using MS Access I wrote a couple of scripts and queries that basically format the feed so it will play nicely when imported.

It would be much better if affiliate data feeds were supplied well formatted but at least using the MS Access method I only have to do this once for each feed the process then is pretty automatic.

So using Ms Access and the WordPress CSV and Datafeed Import Plugin it is possible to auto populate a site (almost) .

Theme Switch and Preview Plugin

Have just installed the nifty Theme Switch and Preview Plugin by nkuttler.

You can now view the different Heatmap child themes by selecting from the drop down menu on the right.

Only problem at present seems to be that the widget has no title and no option to set it.

I have dropped a line to the author hopefully he can point me in the right direction.

The author as released an update so you can now set the widget title within the Theme Switcher options

Heatmap Theme

Decided to do a quick change to the look of MyWordPress today.
I have installed the Heatmap Theme which comes with 14 child themes.

To get the latest version plus all the child themes,and support,you do need to join up which costs $35 ,that’s about £24,per annum.

I will be test driving it over the next few days to see if there are any issues.