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CrankyAds Plugin Review

CrankyAds Plugin Review

CrankyAds is an advertising plugin for WordPress blogs and I thought I would give it a review. I don’t run ads on this site, but many clients do and for years I’ve been recommending Max Banner Ads as a way of managing your adverts, but this doesn’t allow you to take payment, manage campaigns or… Continue Reading

How To Add Related Posts To WordPress

How To Add Related Posts To WordPress

There are many related posts plugins for WordPress. These are plugins that automatically add a list of other posts that you’ve written to the end of a single post page, before the comment box. My old favorite used to be Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) which outputted a list of highly related posts under… Continue Reading

Let’s Contact Each Other

Let’s Contact Each Other

As busy Internet Marketers, we all know that customer comments, messages and feedback are the bottom line when it comes to blogging success. Knowing this, why do so many of us still forget to optimize our contact forms? Savvy bloggers are turning to smart software to clean up the contact options on their WordPress sites…. Continue Reading

The Story of a Plugin – Part 4: The FAQ

You may wish to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first where I talk about the idea for the plugin, early proofs of concept, and getting to the current release version. There have been quite a few questions about the plugin, so I’ll try to answer some of them here. What is Pro… Continue Reading

The Story of a Plugin – Part 3: The WordPress Years

You may wish to read Part 1 and Part 2 first where I talk about the idea for the plugin and early proofs of concept. So the first thing to decide on creating a plugin (after, of course, deciding to make one at all!) is whether to do it yourself or hire someone to do… Continue Reading

The Story of a Plugin – Part 2: Proofs Of Concept

In Part 1 I quickly talked about the problem I have had in the past with gathering data and the thought there must be a solution to the problem of too many data sources. When I started blogging in 1999 (I think, it might have been 1998) measuring traffic was pretty important but a fairly… Continue Reading

Premium Series: Pippity Popup Plugin Review

In my Premium Series I’m taking a look at Premium WordPress plugins and WordPress themes that I personally use, either for myself and for others. All opinions are my own and not influenced by affiliate commissions or anyone connected to the product. Pippity is a WordPress plugin that promises to make your popups less annoying… Continue Reading

The Story of a Plugin – Part 1: Stop Messing Around

Those of you read my site and emails regularly will probably have heard of Pro Blog Stats, a WordPress plugin created by myself and Andrew Rondeau that pulls in stats from multiple sources and reports them into your WordPress dashboard. It’s a massive time saver and allows you to easily and quickly see actionable data… Continue Reading

Find Out How Well Your Blog Is Really Doing!

Many of you know, Andrew and I have been collaborating on a plugin called Pro Blog Stats. It has taken us over a year for this final stage, and thousands of dollars – but now we are proud and excited to say: Here is our first ever WordPress plugin! It’s been tweaked and tested by… Continue Reading

Premium Series: Ninja Affiliate Plugin Review

Premium Series: Ninja Affiliate Plugin Review

In my Premium Series I’m taking a look at Premium WordPress plugins and WordPress themes that I personally use, either for myself and for others. All opinions are my own and not influenced by affiliate commissions or anyone connected to the product. Ninja Affiliate is a WordPress plugin from MaxBlogPress that allows you to create… Continue Reading