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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

Enhancing your Advertise page by adding Paypal subscriptions


If you have applied the previous recipe to your blog, you now have a stunning Advertise page with your blog stats. That's great, but how can the advertisers pay you? Sure, you can use a contact form and ask advertisers to email you and then send them your paypal ID. But going ahead with this procedure has a few cons:

  • Long and boring procedure: The advertiser must send you an email, then you have to send him your paypal ID, get the payment, and finally put the link/banner online.

  • Can turn off some potential advertisers: The long procedure described above can turn off advertisers. Most of them are busy and don't have any time to lose. They want their banner up quickly.

  • No reminder when paid time is passed: If your advertiser paid for one month advertising on your blog, neither you nor him will be reminded when the time has passed. The result could be that you forget the date and leave the ad online longer than scheduled.

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