OMNINOGGIN

If you haven’t noticed, I have an advertise page on this blog that displays various OMNINOGGIN statistics for any interested advertiser to see. If you visit that page, you will also notice a little section under “View Counts” that displays the number of page views on my blog in the last 30 days. This statistics is tracked in my Google Analytics account and I use a hacked version of the Google Analyticator WordPress plugin to display it.

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.
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Here is a note to people who use my Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin. I recommend that you set cache expiration to 0 to make your statistics register correctly with the Buy Sell Ads network.

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.

WP Greet Box version 5.3.0 is here!

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

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WP Greet Box version 5.2.0 is here!

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!)

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This post will explain the various options in WP Greet Box WordPress plugin. I just thought it would be nice to pull the documentation outside of the plugin itself, so that it can be updated more frequently.

Greeting Messages

This is where you manage all of your custom greeting messages that show up depending on your visitor’s referrer information.
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Buy Sell Ads WP Plugin version 0.5 is here!

What’s new this release?

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

1. Fixed for encrypting BSA statistics JS script (So BSA counter does not get blocked and your stats are more accurate on buysellads.com).
2. Cleaned up some code. Also updated to circumvent the updated Easylist.

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WP Minify version 0.3 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

1. WordPress 2.8 Compatibility Fix (minify files enqueued in the footer)

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WP Greet Box version 5.1.0 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

1. Added option to make the greet icon open up a new browser window when clicked on.
2. Added POT file for translations.
3. Added bing.com. (Thank you mynetx!)
4. Updated Google icon. (Thank you Shahar!)
5. Fixed svn:executable properties for php scripts and images.
6. Removed legacy “Allow self referral option” (and always leave it on).

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WP Minify is supposed to work out of the box for many cases. That being said, there will always be plugins that conflict with WP Minify because of the nature of this plugin. In this post, I will show you how to troubleshoot these issues for yourself before you have to hit the plugin support forum.

How does WP Minify Work?

When activated, the plugin does the following:

1. WP Minify intercepts theme rendering at the get_header WordPress hook and puts everything that is echoed/outputted from the PHP code into an output buffer.
2. WP Minify then intercepts theme rendering again at the get_footer WordPress hook to stop the output buffer.
3. The plugin then evaluates the page content to extract all JavaScripts and stylesheets out.
4. The minified version of these JavaScripts and stylesheets are then re-injected into the content.
5. The page content is echoed/outputted as normal.

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