You might remember that a couple of weeks ago I reviewed a premium WordPress plugin called WP Affiliate Pro. In the time since then, I came across a similar premium WordPress plugin called WP Ninja Affiliate, which I managed to pick up a copy of and have been playing around with ever since. What can I say? I’m a sucker for plugins that have the potential to make my online life easier!
At first glance, WP Ninja Affiliate might seem a lot like the WP Affiliate Pro plugin due to the many similarities, but in testing I’ve found that in many ways, it is a more advanced version of that plugin. It does the things you’ve come to expect from WP Affiliate Pro, such as managing your affiliate links, adding cloaked affiliate links to your existing blog posts, and even provide you with click statistics.
In addition to all that good stuff, you’ll also be able to:
- Assign Multiple Keywords - If you want to use multiple anchor text for an individual affiliate link, you can do so with this plugin.
- Group Affiliates - Group your affiliate links for easy management.
- Enjoy Smart Caching - This plugin uses a smart caching feature to prevent your blog from slowing down.
I also found that many of the functions are easier to do than WP Affiliate Pro. Also, in the time that I’ve owned this plugin, it has already seen updates, leading me to believe it is very well supported by the author. If you aren’t happy with your purchase for some reason, you have an eight week money back guarantee!
Overall, I am very happy with my acquisition of this premium WordPress plugin I plan on using it on a few of my WordPress blogs. If you find you are managing a lot of affiliate links on your blogs, I recommend you check out the WP Ninja Affiliate splash page.
Like many other bloggers, I display 125*125 pixels ads on my blog, and earn some money with it. Currently, I own 6 different ads, and most of them change every week. I became bored of editing my sidebar template everyday, so I asked my friend X-OR to write a cool widget to manage thoses ads. Let’s review it together.
What the Show125 widget can do for your blog
I always loved the concept of widgets: drap n’ drop, easy to edit, easy to place, easy to remove. Most of todays themes can handle widgets, so there’s many chances that the theme you use haven’t any problem with it.
In addition to the basic widgets advantages, Show125 gives you many option and a true control over your ads. Let’s see:
- Display from 1 to 8 ads
- Available in English (default) or French
- Display all your ads together, or in an eye-candy Mootools slideshow
- Optionally add the target=”_blank” attribute to links, if you want ads to open in a new tab.
- Show (or not) a title for your ads block
- Easy to install
- Clean code
- Add custom css class to links for styling it your way
- And more!
Installation
Nothing hard here: First, download the widget. If you want to see a “live demo”, just have a look at x-or’s blog, where you’ll be able to see the slideshow mode of the widget.
Once you unzipped the widget to your hard drive, upload the entire directory to your wp-content/plugins directory. Then, go to your Wordpress administration panel and activate the plugin.
In Design » Widgets, you’ll be able to drag n drop the Show125 widget to your sidebar (or any other widgetized part of your WP theme) and set the options.
Once you filled the fields and saved your changes, you’ll see your ads in your sidebar. Managing your ads with Show125 really makes money earning easier!
Have you ever found that you are looking for a WordPress plugin that does something specific, but you’ve tried the WordPress Codex or using Google search and nothing has come up?
There are a few choices you have, including our quickly growing WordPress plugins page, but one cool thing I ran across is I want a WordPress Plugin to… , which serves almost as sort of a WordPress plugin directory. Here you’ll find plugins broken down into categories, allowing you to click on the type of plugin you are searching for, then see what options you have.
Late last week I talked about an advanced alternative premium WordPress plugin to the free All-in-One SEO Pack called SEO Sniper. In what can only be described as a complete coincidence (or weird timing), I’ve read a couple reports today that the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin will no longer be supported by the author, Uberdose. No mention is made for the reason behind this.
This is a fairly new plugin (about a year old I believe), yet it is by far the most used WordPress plugin out there and I’m sure most of you use it. So, what will come of this free plugin? As of right now it works fine, but what about after WordPress 2.6? I was unable to find licensing information associated with the plugin, so it is unclear of it is available for someone else to take over and continue to develop and improve.
If your website offers a feed and you care about protecting your copyrighted content, one thing you should make sure to do is have some sort of copyright notice within your blog’s feed.
There are a variety of WordPress plugins out there that allow you to create a footer for your WordPress feed, including Feed Footer, which we have previously reviewed here. Some offer rotated feeds, others allow you to use HTML to display whatever you want, but for the average person with a blog this is mostly fluff.
If you just want the ability to basically add a copyright notice or use a small amount of HTML to promote a product/service, then you will want to check out the RSS Footer WordPress plugin. It allows you to easily plugin in a line of code and choose where in your code it should be displayed.
This guest post was written by Ben Fraley of Ben Fraley.com, where he enjoys writing about WordPress. If you have webmaster or WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for Hack WordPress, please contact us.
Ok so, true to form, here’s my first review of a Wordpress tool for Hack Wordpress. It’s a Firefox extension called “Zemanta,” and if you like Wordpress, you just gotta get this. What it does it suggest links, tags, categories, even pictures for your blog post AS YOU TYPE IT. That’s correct, it doesn’t even wait for you to be done, and you don’t have to go searching yourself. It does it for you. It’s just awesome.
). Very easy, and very, VERY useful.
I was just looking at this theme also.. Looks great! 
Great info from this post - simple and clean! The article refereed by JBJ is very helpful. These ...
Thanks for featuring the Guzel magazine.
Appreciated! 
Great list! I love these types of posts.
Thanks for contributing this post JBJ! 
