Tools Needed

• Firefox browser.
• Firebug add-on.
• FirePHP add-on.

Troubleshooting Steps

1. Modify “$min_errorLogger = true;” in plugins/wp-minify/min/config.php
2. Enable Firebug
   
3. Enable FirePHP
   
4. Load the page that has the broken minify call.
   
5. Expand the broken minify call and then view error message.
   
6. Exclude this file in WP Minify options.

Didn’t work?

Check out the plugin forum to see if others have ran into and solved the same problem you are having.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added SSL option to force http -> https on secured pages.
2. Updated common.php and some other maintenance.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

2. How do you put back into the WordPress community?
I write plugins and provide them for free.

3. How are you other developers making money from your free plugins/themes?
I am making money from advertisement revenue from traffic generated by my plugins.

4. Do people appreciate you for what you do or just expect you to do it?
Generally people appreciate me, but I’ve come across a few people people who flat out expected me to troubleshoot their site and when I didn’t have time for it, they got mad and said that I am a terrible person.

It would be interesting to hear some perspectives from fellow plugin/theme developers. Please share in the comments section!

What’s new this release?

That’s right 6.0.0!! This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Re-architected the plugin to have a smaller footprint for visitors.
2. Added DZone (Thank you Matthew Schmidt).
3. Added UI on post/page edit form to exclude greet box from showing up on current post/page
4. Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
5. Fixed translation strings and updated .pot file.
6. Fixed broken CSS when both rounded corners and drop shadow options are unchecked.

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 6.0.x:

• 6.0.1: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 6.0.7: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno.
• 6.0.8: Updated da_DK translation by Georg S. Adamsen.

Please help me test this release and post bugs in the support forum!

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

Copy/Paste

Copy and paste the following code into your theme’s functions.php:

function inject_ad_text_after_n_chars($content) {
  // only do this if post is longer than 1000 characters
  $enable_length = 1000;
  // insert after the first </p> after 500 characters
  $after_character = 500;
  if (is_single() && strlen($content) > $enable_length) {
    $before_content = substr($content, 0, $after_character);
    $after_content = substr($content, $after_character);
    $after_content = explode('</p>', $after_content);
    $text = '
      <!-- PUT YOUR AD HERE -->
    ';
    array_splice($after_content, 1, 0, $text);
    $after_content = implode('</p>', $after_content);
    return $before_content . $after_content;
  }
  else {
    return $content;
  }
}
add_filter('the_content', 'inject_ad_text_after_n_chars');

Modify

• Make sure to replace “PUT YOUR AD HERE” with your advertisement code.
• $enable_length: Your ad will only be inserted if the post length exceeds this value.
• $after_character: Your ad will be inserted after the first </p> after this value.

That’s it! Enjoy!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added ability to de-dupe sources
2. Added ability to manually specify location of minified JS and CSS files.
3. Fixed XHTML compliance bugs
4. Cleaned empty lines in HTML output

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added Designerfix and Web Design News by Dale Crum.
2. Added be_BY translation by Marcis G..
3. Fixed Google Buzz icon file name typo.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added the following advanced options:
   • Minification on external files
   • Ability to place JavaScript in footer
   • Extra arguments for Minify engine
2. Removed wp_path option (Thanks Jan Seidl!)
3. Fixed Output Buffer conflicts with other plugins that use output buffering such as All-in-One SEO and Anarchy Media Player.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin has the following enhancements.

1. Upgraded to asynchronous Buy Sell Ads code.
2. Changed integration method, now you only need to specify yout site key!
3. Added ability to auto insert into posts/pages.
4. Changed widget integration.
5. Disabled Anti-AdBlock for now as this interferes with BSA statistics.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Upgraded to Minify engine 2.1.3
2. Added automatic Minify engine cache configuration
3. Fixed HTML5
   conflict
4. Fixed bug from blog installed in subdirectory
5. Fixed localization

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Added option to disable JS or CSS minification.
2. Fixed a few bugs.
3. Admin facelift

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added support for rounded corners and drop shadow (CSS3 supported browsers)
2. Added “Debug” mode that will always display messages (ignores most rules).
3. Updated pt_BR translation by Isaac Ribeiro.
4. Updated .pot file.
5. Fixed admin CSS a bit.

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 5.6.x:

• 5.6.1: Added hr translation by Yuraz
• 5.6.2 Gogle Buzz by Shahar Golan.
• 5.6.3: Added fr_FR translation The Alien

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of SEO No Duplicate has the following enhancements.

1. WordPress 2.9 compatibility
2. Canonical URL override box on post edit page
3. Code cleanup
4. Added options page

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

Overview

This isn’t much of an introduction to WordPress MU, but more so a guide on how to build your own blog network, social network, or community using WordPress MU.  There are also chapters with good techniques that can also be used on any other platforms (in other words, non-WordPress-MU-specific tips).

The book walks you step-by-step through how to create a mythical community site called “SlayerCafe”.  During the process, it shows you everything from finding the right host, installing/customizing WordPress MU to driving traffic to your site and monetizing your site.

What do I love about the book?

The first thing I love about this book is that it is quite detailed.  It’s detailed enough that a person who’s not familiar with WordPress can pickup this book and build a basic community site without finding help anywhere else.

The next thing I love about this book is its organization. The writing convention is quite intuitive and geared for easy learning. Being a semi-technical book, it does a great job at keeping instructions organized and understandable.  The book also has plenty of screenshots so it’s harder for you to get lost in WordPress MU settings.  Each instruction set (“Time for action”) section is followed by a “What just happened?” section that let’s you take a breather to understand what you just did and why you did it. I believe that this pause for explanation is the key reason why it is so easy to learn from this book.

What I love most about the WordPress MU 2.8 book is that it touches on many aspects of creating a community site, not just WordPress MU features.  Some topics covered are:

• Finding the right host and hosting platform
• Installing/customizing WordPress MU
• Securing your site
• Increasing traffic to your site
• Keeping users on your site longer (making site sticky)
• Adding forum or social network to WordPress MU
• Monetizing your site
• Optimizing your site

Learning about these topics will definitely help you to build a community site properly from the start.  I personally found the chapters “Customizing the Appearance of Your Site” and “Letting Users Manage Their Blogs” most helpful at helping me understand more about WordPress and its capabilities.  I can now use this knowledge to expand my horizons when starting a new project.

What are some drawbacks?

No product is perfect, so I do see a few drawbacks with this book.

First, because the title of the book I expected to read a book that talked more about WordPress MU and less about everything else.  Things like driving traffic to your site, making your site sticky and monetizing are really not WordPress MU topics.

Second, this book talks too much about plugins and how a combination of plugins can make up a good community site.  Some of the plugin choices the book mentions is also not good.  For example, the plugin suggests that users install WWSGD instead of WP Greet Box.  Later on, the book recommends that you use WP Super Cache for optmization, but WWSGD doesn’t work with WP Super Cache.  WP Greet Box works with WP Super Cache and is much more powerful than WWSGD.  There are definitely some inconsistencies here which makes me seconds-guess some advice that this book gives me.

Last, WordPress MU is constantly changing with new functionality added and old ones deprecated. This mean that this book can easily become outdated after a few major WordPress version releases.

Final words

If you are at all interested in building a community site, you should definitely get a copy of WordPress MU 2.8 (Beginner’s Guide).  The step-by-step nature of this book has me convinced that anybody can build a community site using WordPress MU and this book.  Also after reading this book you will have a pretty good idea if WordPress MU is the right platform for your community site or not.  I wouldn’t recommend this book if you are more advanced and want to learn about the nuts and bolts of WordPress MU.  The book is just what it was written to be, a beginner’s guide [to building a community site].

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added ability to not show greeting message to logged in users.
2. Added “About this plugin” section in admin area.

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 5.5.x:

• 5.5.1: Added wpgb_has_greet_message() for theme developers to check if the current page has a greeting message associate with it or not.
• 5.5.3: Added sq_AL translation by Romeo Shuka.
• 5.5.5: Added zh_CN translation by Sam Zuo.
• 5.5.6: Added nl_NL translation by Lars Mennen.
• 5.5.6: Added es_ES translation by Miquel Camps Orteza.
• 5.5.8: Added de_DE translation by Bjoern Buerstinghaus.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. Automatically exclude CSS conditionals.
2. Automatically exclude CSS media != all, or screen.
3. Automatically exclude https URLs.
4. Added sanity checking for buffer start & stop.
5. Moved buffer start to init with priority 99999.
6. Fixed “strpos()” warnings when settings have empty lines.

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

The reason why hacked the plugin to display the number of page views is because advertisers usually care more about the number of page views than the number of unique visitors.

In this tutorial I will show you how to hack the Google Analyticator plugin to display the number of page views instead of the unique visitors and display the count in any one of your posts or pages.

Changes to the Google Analyticator Plugin

Here are the changes I made to the Google Analyticator plugin version 5.3.1. The guys at Spiral Web Consulting can feel free to use it and integrate it into their plugin (with a link back to here I hope).

Index: google-analytics-stats-widget.php
===================================================================
--- google-analytics-stats-widget.php	(revision 151304)
+++ google-analytics-stats-widget.php	(working copy)
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 
 		echo '<td style="width:auto!important;border-width:1px;border-color:#' . $font_color . ';border-style:solid;padding:0px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:right;background:#' . $inner_background_color . ';min-width:80px;*width:80px!important;"><div style="min-width:80px;">'. $visitor_count . '</div></td>';
 
-		echo '<td style="width:auto!important;padding:0px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;">' . $line_one . '<br />' . $line_two . '</td>';
+		echo '<td style="width:auto!important;padding:0px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;">' . $line_one . '</td>';
 
 	}
 
@@ -235,16 +235,16 @@
 		# Get the latest stats
 		$before = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-' . $time . ' days'));
 		$yesterday = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day'));
-		$uniques = number_format($stats->getMetric('ga:visitors', $before, $yesterday));
+		$pageviews = number_format($stats->getMetric('ga:pageviews', $before, $yesterday));
 
 		# Make the array for database storage
-		$visit = serialize(array('unique'=>$uniques, 'lastcalled'=>time()));
+		$visit = serialize(array('unique'=>$pageviews, 'lastcalled'=>time()));
 
 		# Store the array
 		update_option('google_stats_visits_' . $account, $visit);
 
 		# Return the visits
-		return $uniques;
+		return $pageviews;
 	}
 
 }// END class

Displaying in Your Posts and Pages

Google Analyticator plugin be default only allows you to display this information in your sidebar widget. You will have to do some more hackery in your theme’s functions.php to be able to display this information in your posts and pages.

1. Modify functions.php

Here is the code I added to my functions.php.

function display_ga_stats($content) {
  $stats_pos = strpos($content, '##google_analyticator_statistics##');
  if($stats_pos) {
    ob_start();
    $google_stat_options = array('title'=>'', 'account'=>'ga:7875704', 'timeFrame'=>'30', 'pageBg'=>'f6f6f6', 'widgetBg'=>'999', 'innerBg'=
>'fff', 'font'=>'333', 'line1'=>'Views in the last 30 days', 'line2'=>'');
    the_widget('GoogleStatsWidget', $google_stat_options);
    $ga_stats = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    $content = str_replace('##google_analyticator_statistics##', $ga_stats, $content);
  }
  return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content','display_ga_stats');

2. Insert ##google_analyticator_statistics## into your posts

Now all you have to do to display this information on your posts and pages is to include the text “##google_analyticator_statistics##” anywhere you want to display in your posts and/or pages. Enjoy!

This is because Buy Sell Ads network is now also tracking the number of times the ads themselves get requested (not just the tracking pixel). If the ads are cached on your server, then they are not going to count in your Buy Sell Ads statistics whenever it is being displayed (lowering your impression count).

I am working on ripping out the caching mechanism right now, but for the time being, you should just set cache expiration to 0 in the Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin settings.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added ru_RU translation by FatCow.
2. Fixed exclusion rule that won’t work per Window’s end of line issue.
3. Updated readme.txt format (Changelog).

Here are some addition notable point release changes for version 5.3.x:

• 5.3.1: Added it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno
• 5.3.2: Updated it_IT translation by Gianni Diurno
• 5.3.4: Added pt_BR translation The Alien

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added ability to not show greeting messages per post/page by adding “wpgb_hide” into a post/page’s custom field.
2. Moved documentation to omninoggin.com.
3. Fixed “Cannot modify header information” warning in admin media library.
4. Fixed fellow->follow typos in the default reddit message.
5. Fixed i18n bug “$this->plugin_domain” (Thank you Lutz!)

Where do I download and read documentation?

Please visit the original plugin post.

Where do I file bugs, make feature requests, and get support?

Please visit the support forum.