Monthly Archives: August 2010

Affiliate plugin

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Have you ever used your affiliate links on your website? If you have, you should be looking at a plugin like WP-Affiliate. The plugin works by masking your affiliate links and make them seamless against the rest of your website. It also lets you use affiliate links like those generated by Commission Junction, which have are composed of Javascript code and are usually quite hard to embed on your website.

The great thing about the plugin is that you can use it for whatever affiliate link you like. Whether it’s for sears coupons or Amazon books, it’s always nice to get a bit on the side.

School themes for WordPress

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I’ve just came across a collection of free school themes for WordPress. They will be useful for anyone building up an educational site, whether it’s for a school, an after school club, or even a particular class. There are a couple of good themes; I haven’t actually tried any out, but you can tell just by looking at them that they have some decent styling.

So, if you’re building a website for your class, or even setting up a sat prep site, check them out; I’m pretty sure you’ll find a theme that suits the idea you have in mind.

Coping with the load

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Are you ready for the big time? What’s the difference you may ask? Well, if your site gets really really popular you may be getting thousands of page hits an hour and unless your server is designed to handle the load, you may find your blog suddenly unavailable. Let’s say, for example you have a blog about consumer electronics, you know LCD TVs, Projectors and other such gadgets. One day you write a blog post with a review of the latest 3D TV and it gets linked to from a major website. All of a sudden, you have a deluge of traffic and your server just can’t handle it.

This is where a plugin called WP Super Cache can help. It builds up static versions of each of your pages so that your server can use them without having to process any PHP. It’s an essential tool for anyone expecting potentially large traffic spikes. So, install it and set it up, and feel free to write all the projector reviews you want; you know your blog can handle anything you can throw at it now.

WordPress 3.0.1

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Where there’s a new version, there’s bound to be a service release that fixes some minor bugs. And this was the case with WordPress 3.0 too. WordPress 3.0.1 has hit the streets with fixes for around 50 minor issues.

It doesn’t matter whether you have a blog about stories you’ve read or about adjustable beds, you always need to make sure that you’re on the latest version of WordPress if you can. most of the fixes in this drop will be relatively trivial, but there’s usually a security patch or two that you shouldn’t really be without.

Download it here

WP Auctions 3.7

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There’s a new version of WP Auctions in town, the plugin that turns your WordPress blog into an fully fledged auction site.The new version has some new features, like the ability to customise the automated emails sent by the plugin, the image upload process has been improved and there’s now a facility to allow remote debugging (if it’s ever needed).

The great thing about the plugin is that it allows you to auction anything you like on your site, whether it’s a Mustang or mbt shoes. Give it a whirl, there’s even a free version for you to try.

Check out all the new features