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Time to upgrade your TLA plugin. TLA has updated their WP-Plugin to incorporate their new Post Level Text Links Ads.

What is this Post Level Text Link Ads?

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With the growth of social networking news sites individual blog posts can be very valuable in terms of traffic and direct links to these specific posts. You can now sponsor these specific posts with our new Post Level Text Link Ads. Only one ad will be served at the bottom of the post and it will allow you to have a full 80 character title and 150 letter description.

- You will still have editorial control for each link purchased if you have opted for editorial control for your regular Text Link Ads.

- Pricing is set automatically and is lower on a per link basis then typical homepage placed Text Link Ads.

- No extra coding work for you, we sync all of your posts automatically with our new WP plugin.

- If you regular Text Link Ads are sold out you will now have new inventory to sell.

It means you get more inventory to serve ads on post level if you have used up al spots.

If you have not signed up for Text-Link Ads, sign up now.

Upgrade your plugin.

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Have a good weekend!

P.S. Have you cast your vote? Poll closes on Sunday night! Come on… you know you want to. It’s just so easy. I know you won’t …

RSS Exclusive

• There’s a new web browser in town for Windows Mobile fans that goes by the name Deepfish.
• Things Geeks Do When Bored – Your say in the comments!
• Ony 400 Ferrari Enzo’s were produced and one less now!
• Learning WordPress – a new plugins repository
• Amazon Releases Context Links Beta – Register here for affiliate program

Have a good weekend!

P.S. Have you cast your vote? Poll closes on Sunday night! Come on… you know you want to. It’s just so easy. I know you won’t …

This is really awesome. Many a times I have loved a theme, but I shy away from using it. Why? I know nothing about coding and I would prefer to have have widget ready themes. Over last couple of weeks, I have surely learnt that all plugin and widget ‘functionality’ lies in the functions.php!

Infact, last week I borrowed some cool functionality from one theme and massaged that into my other theme. Wow, it worked! So, here is a how-to for converting non-widget ready theme to a widget ready theme!

Functions.php is the file you should be looking for. Insert this code in the file

<?php
if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar();
?>

Now you need to modify your theme’s sidebar.php

Typically

<div id=”sidebar”>
<h2>Search this site</h2>
<div id=”searchdiv”>
<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’]; ?>”>
<input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”20″/>
<input name=”sbutt” type=”submit” value=”Go” alt=”Submit” />
</form>
</div>
//
<?php if ( !function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?> // added
//
<h2><?php _e(’Archives’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(’Categories’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php list_cats() ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(’Meta’); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>”>RSS</a></li>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
//
<?php endif; ?> // added
//
</div>

That’s it! You are all sorted mate to have a widget ready theme! Give it a shot. Its straight forward!

Today, I have added 2 wordpress plugins.

1. FeedBurner StandardStats WordPress Plugin : makes installing FeedBurner’s stats code simple. No files to edit and no wondering if you got the code in the right place. Simply put in your user ID and the plugin will do the rest. As a bonus, the plugin can also be used to show FeedFlare links on each blog post.
2. Add Related Posts to Your Feed : This WordPress plugin adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed.

If you have subscribed to my feeds, you would have already noticed the Related Posts plugin kick in some content for you. If you haven’t subscribed, it’s never too late. Get on board

I use many plugins, and will certainly share the ‘list’ very soon. Until then…

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It is true that blogging is in! As Amit Agarwal of DI, rightly points that with the increase in number of internet users, more blogs and blog readers will keep popping up. These blogs may not be written content, it could be photos only.

And as is the case today, plagiarism is rampant. A list blogger’s like Amit Agarwal, Darren Rowse, Michael Arrington, Om Malik are all professional blogger’s and they sure have to deal with plagiarists as an addon. It ain’ an easy task and I don’t know if they use some form of mechanism to track, keep a check on this and deal with it. But they have raised a stink about this at some point.

Do they have a choice? Yes. Copyright their works. Just like an artist or a corporation, you my dear blogger/podcaster can copyright your content. Free (almost) with MyFreeCopyRight.

You can protect mostly all literary, musical, dramatical, graphical, audiovisual, sound and architectural works.

You can protect you blog/podcast too! How does this work?

My Free Copyright subscribes to your Blog or Podcast and downloads every entry you publish and date registers it. All you need to do is enter the URL to your Blog or Podcast once.

My Free Copyright captures your original creation’s fingerprint, stores the fingerprint in a database and sends a copy of the fingerprint to you in an email. The email contains the verified date; the fingerprint verifies the digital creation, and your email address verifies it belongs to you.

They have free services limited to 100 registrations and paid services namely safety deposit. For $19/year you can do 1000 copyright registrations or for $27/year you can have unlimited copyright registrations. With safety deposit you do get 2GB of storage space.

If you are using online backup services like MozyBackup or Carbonite or anything, I would think this is a better alternative.

This issue has been addressed by

1. Om Malik – GIGAOM
2. Mike Rundle – Top Ten Sources: Stealing Your Content?
3. Jason and Jeff Jarvis – Google and splog fraud
4. MaxPower
5. Darren Rowse – Problogger has written on this here, here, here, here … whew go figure!
6. Amit Agarwal – Digital Inspiration – Indian Blogging Badshah
7. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has not addressed this issue. (No results in search).

You can protect / monitor using:

1. MyFreeCopyRight
2. CopyScape (Thanks to Darren Rowse)