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Adsense Sharing in Wordpress

admin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:25:50 +0000

Here is an interesting Adsense sharing plug-in for those who are creating blogs that have multiple writers. Now you can share Google Adsense earnings with your writers and keep them aiding in your success? Not sure if I like this concept of hiring writers to blog for Adsense dollars but hey, I guess if you are creating something useful nobody will complain.

Checkout the Adsense Sharing Plugin for Wordpress.

Tags: Monetizing, Blogs,, Adsense,, Adsense, Sharing

More Money Plugin

admin — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:14:42 +0000

The More Money wordpress plugin is for those who would like to show ads to search engine visitors but not to regular blog readers.

For example, if I go into my stats program I find that this blog is being found in search engines for the phrase “wordpress paypal” meaning that if you do a search in Google you see me on page #1 for that phrase and people visit looking for information about intergrating paypal into wordpress. If you greet the folks with a banner or text link ad you might pick up a few extra dollars for pizza and beer because the people are hopefully looking for related content.

If you would like to monetize your blog you can do so by adding ads to all pages (which is kind of cheezy) or just show ads on pages that are actually being visited from search engines by using this More Money plugin.

Setup is easy, extract to your plugins folder, upload, enable, copy ad code into this plugins options area, paste into your sidebar, header, page or single post and you are good to go!

Download Plugin (english)

Tags: More, Money, Plugin,, Wordpress,, Monetize, Wordpress,, Wordpress, Paypal

Wordpress Paypal Integration

admin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:11:51 +0000

Ever want to intergrate Paypal payments into your blog to sell a product or service? Well, there is always someone out there who has the code but how exactly do you install it and make it work? Let me try to walk you through the steps.

Ken Villines offered code for Paypal integration in the Wordpress forums and got lots of, “I don’t understand or I can’t get it working, help!” which is a shame, his easy payment solution really works.

Note: Do not be insulted if you already know basic things like how to FTP, you might be surprised, many do not. This post is for those who need a little help getting payments working in Wordpress so let’s get started.

What you need:

An FTP Client – I like WS_FTP, need to learn how to use an FTP Client go here.

A Paypal account.

The Code to cut and paste into quicktags.js.

Instruction:

Backup and save a copy of quicktags.js located in path: wp-includes/js/quicktags.js

Here is the code you will need to cut and paste into quicktags.js, remove everything in your existing one (did you save a copy? good!) now replace it.

Important: In your Wordpress console go to tab: options/writing and uncheck “Formatting: Users should use the visual rich editor by default” as you see in the picture below if you put on you glasses, hehe.

Cut and paste this code into you quicktag.js file, save and upload it with your FTP client.

Usage:

Make a new post and click the “Paypal” botton and you will see a popup window, follow it.
Enter if you are selling a single or item of want shopping cart checkout.
Enter the email address you use for your paypal payments,
Enter the amount you want to sell the item(s) for.
Enter a product ID (if you have one) and save, the Paypal button should appear in the blog.

Example Button:

Let me know if you have any issues, enjoy!

Wordpress Shopping Cart

admin — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:51:10 +0000

There has been a few attempts to make Wordpress Shopping Cart solutions but all so far have been extremely buggy, well not anymore. Here comes the outstanding Sourceforge.net community with a working shopping cart plugin called Yak for Wordpress.

YAK or Yet Another Kart is a basic shopping cart system which allows a product to be associated with a post or page. This provides much needed support for online payments such as PayPal and allows you to use your blog as an online store. (nice!)

Shopping Cart Installation and Setup

Before you download and enable the YAK shopping cart you must first install the Exec-PHP Plugin for Wordpress. Exec-PHP basically allows you to execute code within posts, the Yak Shopping Cart needs this functionality to work properly so install this first, then proceed to the links below.

View some cool YAK Screenshots
Download YAK for Wordpress

Instead of me wasting time repeating what is already out there for you to follow let me direct you to the shopping cart installation instructions. If you are not geeky enough I guess I could help you install the plug-in if you got something to trade or barter.