Excluded Categories Frome Home Page Plugin
November 9, 2008
I bet there must be someone who wants to excluded some categories on the first page of their Wordpress blog. I have found a very useful wordpress plugin which you can use it to excluded unwanted categories on main page.
Front Page Excluded Categories is a simply plugin that excludes posts in one or more categories from appearing on the front page. This is especially useful if you use an automated posting system, like the del.icio.us bookmark blog posting feature, that updates your blog regularly. In such a case, you can assign these posts to an excluded category so they don’t appear on the front page, but do appear in a category page.
Installation
1. Download the zip or tar file and unzip the ‘frontpageexcluded_cats.php’ file into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Open the php file in a text editor and add the category id values you wish to exclude to the $catstoexlude string.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
4. View your front page and confirm that your excluded categories are now absent.
Click Here To Download The Plugin
Using PHP to Redirect Affiliate Links
July 3, 2008
You may have seen many bloggers use redirect pages to send out their affiliate links when people click on their affiliate links. Cloaking your affiliate links to prevent from having your affiliate links hijacked. Your affiliate links can be hijacked. There are malware, virus, etc. out there that many people have on their computers without even knowing that will detect when an affiliate link is clicked and replace your affiliate ID with the hijackers.
First set up a directory on your server for your redirect pages to go. To make it easy I recommend creating a directory simply named “go” (i.e.: www.yoursite.com/go/).
This is how to create redirect page for your affiliate links by using a PHP script.
<html>
<head>
<title>TITLE</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en-us”>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”>
<script>window.location=” your affiliate url“;</script>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=”your affiliate url“>
</head>
<body>
<p align=”center”>You will be taken to the correct page shortly.
<br>If this page does not load after 5 seconds, please
<a href=”your affiliate url“>click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
Just copy and paste on NotePad and change 3 “your affiliate link” to your affiliate link URL. After that save the file with an easy to remember name that ends with .php. Upload this new file to the “go” folder on your server.Your link will look something like this http://www.gettycash.com/go/tla.php
Whenever someone clicks on your disguised link (http://www.yoursite.com/go/website.php), they are going to be redirected to your real referral link. 
Kontera Wordpress Plugin
May 13, 2008
Kontera have just released new Wordpress plugin for helping Wordpress bloggers customize Kontera ContentLink ads easily.
This plugin enables you to:
- Add the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click
- Block ContentLink ads from appearing on particular posts or categories
- Determine when ContentLink ads will begin appearing on new posts- you can choose to block ads for a particular number of days
- Display ContentLinks only on posts
- Display ContentLinks only on comments
- Change ContentLinks color
Download Kontera Plugin for WordPress 2.5
Download Kontera Plugin for WordPress 2.0
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