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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Managing who Sees Ads


The previous recipe is a very good solution to try and avoid Google "Smart Pricing" by hiding Adsense to regular visitors and displaying it to search engine visitors only. Although this hack is good for achieving this goal, it is possible to have even more control over your ads and who sees these ads.

In this recipe, I'll show you a very interesting plugin for anyone who'd like to make money by blogging. It is called Who Sees Ads.

Getting ready

The principle of the Who Sees Ads plugin is exactly the same as the previous recipe. It allows you to make blogging money by displaying ads, but you can control who should see ads, and who shouldn't.

Unlike the hack, the Who Sees Ads plugin allows many different rules that define who can see ads and who cannot. For example, you can define that you should display ads only on posts older than 10 days, or only if the reader comes from a search engine.

How to do it...

Simply follow these steps to install, configure, and use the "Who sees...