We all know the crazy Camps Bay blogger, Seth. He’s the power behind one of the most popular blogs in Africa and the winner of 6 SA Blog awards! He started blogging before blogs were around and he has managed to understand the online audience and make a great success of it.
The article is enjoyable, it’s not all deep and cluttered, but rather right to the point and it’s worth the read.
If you’re not yet hooked on 2OceansVibe, head on over, take a read, I dare you not to get addicted ;)
I tell you, I started making money online many many years ago and each and every time I receive a certain type of envelope in the post, I get this little rush of excitement through my veins.
This evening I received some cheques, including one new one from something new that I did and I’m really proud of it, even though it’s a tiny amount, it’s still exciting!
Pretty cool hey? Perhaps I’ll be able to afford the new South African R500 note? *giggles*
How often do you filter pages using categories, tags and so forth, but what if this isn’t enough? Enter custom fields. We’ve all used custom fields to add images or special little bits to posts, but what about using them for displaying posts with similar custom field values?
Check this code out..
<?php query_posts(‘meta_key=car&meta_value=ford’); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
It’s honestly as simple as that. “car” refers to the custom field key and “ford” refers to the value.
It’s as simple as that!
Useful? Definitely!
This past week has been rather annoying with all the South Africa public holidays, but I guess I should be grateful because now we’re back to the 5 day a week daily grind, which isn’t bad at all, but I love sleeping in ;)
Last week started off with a brilliant sunset in Cape Town (then the rain came), and after that I figured it would be a fantastic week, let alone all the holiday up and downs :) Last week also introduced Thursday Tech Talk by Christopher J Combrink, which we’re all looking excited for, oh yes and not only that, but Philip is also showcasing specials for computer hardware, so keep your eyes open for that.
Another big thing was the elections, and to summarize, a poll was taken to find out what will the 2009 elections be remembered for, quite interesting! Another another happy note, I drooled over the Porsche 911 GT3, which is going to be released in 2010 – sexy ride!
Some other topics to note:
- 4Chan pwning Time Magazine
- Killer whales hunting dolphin in False Bay
- My AdGator earnings for April
- The iPod tie
- No tangle earphones
- Samsung camcorders
- Swine flu iPhone application
So there you have it, a to-the-point summary of the last week. The holidays are over and it’s time to zone into some hard graft!
Keep well everyone :)
Past Summaries:
A few weeks ago, I ran a poll on iMod to find out what my readers are enjoying most, here are the rough results:
My Life: 8.5%
Style: 10.%
Tech: 25%
CPT: 8.5%
Marketing: 7%
Internet: 24%
Mobile: 9.5%
Moving these into two categories would result in this:
- Technology: 58.5%
- Entertainment: 27%
Naturally, I did not include all the categories, which iMod deals with, but I wanted to make sure that Technology and Entertainment were powerful categories, as these are the two I focus on the most.
I’m happy with the results :)
[Thanks Ruark]
Recently, I’ve blogged about DB-Cache, which was a WordPress caching plugin and it didn’t perform as well as I was hoping. But today I stumbled across WP-Optimize, which is a plugin that allows you to manage your database and clean things up.
Take a look..
Here are some features:
- Remove the existing wordpress post revisions
- Remove all the comments in the spam queue
- Remove all the un-approved comments
- Rename one username to another username, it’s designed to rename default “Admin” user to something else
- Apply MySql optimize commands on your database tables without phpMyAdmin.
- Display Database table statistics.
Pretty darn useful! You can download a copy here.
When it comes to affiliate marketing, all these systems hand you pieces of tracking code which is quite confusing and half the time, we have no idea where to put it. Lester has done us all a favour and made a video on how we can quickly and easily add AdGator tracking code to WordPress using a simple ‘text widget’ approach..
If you have any questions, please click here and leave a comment :)
If this is a little complicated for you, don’t forget that there’s an actual AdGator WordPress plugin available too from here.
SmashingMagazine published a post recently on WordPress hack and one of those hacks was having the ability to show your readers up and coming posts, ie. scheduled posts.
What I’m curious about is whether this is actually a good idea? I understand that enticing your readers is a good idea or in terms of television series, giving a sneak peak into the next episode, but what about your competitors seeing what’s coming up and jumping to it quicker than your post is scheduled for release?
I guess my opinion would change from blog to blog, depending on the content, which the blogger publishes, but in general I worry that this isn’t such a good idea, much like my views of showing your most popular posts and allowing competitors to steal your top keywords.
If you don’t think I’m right and you would like to publish your latest posts, you can grab the code here, it’s bullet no2 :)
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