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Have Your WordPress Stats Stopped Working

So your WordPress stats don’t work?

stats.gifA few days ago the theme here on WordPressMax was changed and a few days later I checked my stats in the dashboard and I saw nothing at all. Now I know I am not getting tons and tons of traffic but when I saw absolutely none for a few days I knew there was a problem with one of the or the theme. If you recently changed or edited your theme this may be why. Here is a short to check and fix your stats.

The WordPress.com Stats uses a bit of code in your footer template to run the plugin. Even if you have a footer.php file the code below must be in the file in order for the plugin to work. I am not going to get into why or how because I don’t know and frankly all I wanted was for it to be fixed and it worked.

Open your footer.php file and make sure you have the needed code in place to run the plugin shown below, near the bottom of the file just above the closing body or html tags:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

This fix worked for me and stats started showing immediately.

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Are Your WordPress Comments Not Showing

wordpress_comments1.gifWriting blog posts that result in your readers commenting on the post is a good sign. If you are a fairly new blogger, any traffic and interaction from comments on your WordPress blog are exciting to see. It means you are starting to get some results and traffic. If people are leaving comments you are also also doing something right to encourage it.

But what if the comments are not showing up? Where are they going? If I setup your blog for you I most likely added and activated the comment spam plugin called Akismet. Akismet is one of those set it and forget it . There is no filter adjustment, that I know of, for it and you must monitor the comments to make sure it isn’t stopping legitimate comments from real visitors.

Akismet does a great job of catching comment spam, especially from those automated comment scripts. But it may be blocking some of your readers comments too, especially if they include a link inside the comment. To check your comment spam, from within the click Comments and then under that click the Akismet Spam subpanel.

The Akismet spam subpanel is where you will find all the comments the caught as spam, and there may be some legitimate real comments in here. In here is where you can moderate all the spammed comments.

If you find that too many real comments are getting flagged as spam you my want to consider switching to a more configurable WordPress spam plugin like Spam Karma. It is a highly configurable comment spam plugin that you can experiment with and adjust to your liking. I just installed it on this site and so far it has done quite well.

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How To Add AdSense Ads To A WordPress Blog

Placing Google AdSense on your WordPress can be accomplished in a variety of ways. Because of the big blogging rush happening right now many people are building blogs to make money blogging. And the first thing they want to do is to put Google AdSense on their blog. Here is a that gives you different options for integrating Ads into your .

The first and obvious area to place your ads is on the sidebar. This has never been easier with the use of text widgets. To place AdSense on your sidebar read this: Working With WordPress Text Widgets

Then there are plugins to place AdSense within your blog posts. The most popular one, and the one I include when I install WordPress is AdSense Deluxe. Read how to Install And Configure AdSense Deluxe WordPress Plugin.

To add AdSense or other ads directly into your you must place the ad code directly into a few of the themes files depending on where you want the ads to show.

To edit your themes files from within the the file permissions must be set to writable on your hosting account, CHMOD them to 666 or 777. Then from the dashboard go to Presentation, Theme Editor. Make sure you have a backup of the file you are editing if you are not comfortable messing around with the code in there.

If you want the ads to show on the top of the main page above the title of the first post you need to place them in the Main Index or index.php file. Look for and open index.php on the right side of the theme editor. Look for this code near the top and place your ads like shown below:

Put Your Ad Code Here

<?php if (have_posts()) : //Are there any posts? ?>

You can do the same steps above on the Single Post (single.php), Archives (archive.php) and the Page Template (page.php).

As you start looking at the different files, you can start to see different places to place your ads, or anything for that matter within your blogs theme. For example to place the ad code on the bottom of each post Open the Single Post template (single.php). Place the ad code in the area show just below the post:

<?php if(have_posts()): ?><?php while(have_posts()):the_post(); ?>

<div class=”post”>
Place Ad Code Here

One note of caution! Please copy, paste and save into a text file on your computer all the text in any file you are attempting to edit before you make any changes!

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Get Paid To Blog On Your WordPress Blog

There are many different ways to and many of them require plenty of up front work gaining the traffic and readers to generate traffic to your website or blog. After you get a blog setup there are many ways to get paid for blogging.

You can apparently see that on this blog I use several different methods to make some money. The first thing most people do is place AdSense on their blog and I also show some of the multi-level marketing programs I belong to and promote. Another way to get paid for blogging is to check out sites like Smorty.

You can also blog for money by writing reviews about an advertisers service or website on your blog and getting paid to do it.

Beside the obvious benefit of making money with your blog, one of the things I like most about Smorty and other pay per post sites, is that it gives me something to blog about when I short on ideas to blog about. This keeps me busy, and sharpens my writing skills while making some decent money. This also helps me come up with new blogging ideas as well.

One note of caution is try to keep your posts relevant to your blogs topic and make sure to continue to post as much of your regular content as possible. From what I have seen so far, Smorty has plenty of opportunities for a wide range of blogging topics.

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Change Color Of Links In A WordPress Theme

Have you found a that you really liked but one little thing like the color of the links stopped you from using it? It really isn’t that hard to change the color of the links in a .

The theme file you need to edit is the stylesheet or style.css. To edit this, or any of your ’s files you need to set the proper file permissions on them on your hosting account. I suggest you just CHMOD the whole wp-content folder to 666 or 777. Or at least the themes folder in the wp-content folder. You could do this with an FTP client too but that will involve a few extra steps.

I prefer editing the files right from within the . In the dashboard click Presentation, then Theme Editor. Usually the first file is the stylesheet and is already open. Make sure by looking to the right and clicking it to open it in the editor. Before you make any changes in here copy all the text and paste it into Notepad or your favorite text editor. This way if things go bad you can restore it real quick. The code you are looking for looks something like this below:

a:link{
text-decoration: none;
color:#333;
}

a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
color: #333;
}

a:visited{
text-decoration: none;
color:#333;

You can choose to have different colors for regular links, links that have been already visited and when a mouse is hovering over them. You can also choose to “decorate” the links. Just change the color # to any 3 or 6 digit hex color code you want and click update file on the bottom right. View your site and and admire your handy work!

Some possible text-decoration:

 

  • none - Text has no decoration.
  • underline - Text is underlined.
  • overline - Text has a line over it.
  • line-through - Text has a line drawn through it.

Find hex color codes here –> Hex Color Codes or do your own Google search.

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New Look For WordPress Max

After looking at the old theme that was on this site for over 6 months I decided to add a little color. My thinking when I choose the original theme was to keep it as simple looking as possible. Trying to focus more on the and less on the look of the site. Well I just got tired of seeing all those nice colorful blogs I visit and decided to make a change.

The theme I decided on is NetWorker by Anthony Baggett. I changed very little on it (just the color of the header and links). It is a very easy theme to tweak and seems to work very well so far. Any thoughts or tweaks on the current theme are welcome.

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Learn How To Make Money With A Blog Make Money Blogging

A blog has fast become the best and easiest ways to setup a website and manage its content. Many people realize this and are setting up blogs at a rapid pace. Although this site is primarily for newbies learning the basics of a , how to tweak it and few little more advanced customizations. I always get asked, by those I setup a blog for “How To Make Money With A Blog“. There are many different ways to and I use a few of my own and now have learned a few from this terrific new guide.

I have taken advantage of the blogging boom with my own WordPress install service. Taking the guess work out of installing and configuring a WordPress blog for others so they can get to business of blogging. I do however, have many of my clients asking me how to make money with their new blog. Until now I really didn’t have an answer for them.

Blogging Rob Benwell has written the ultimate guide to monetizing a blog, simply put it gives you all the information that would take you months of research to find on your own. All in one package, Blogging To The Bank will help you realize your blogs potential. Keep in mind like any tool, you must put into practice what you learn from this terrific resource.

Click Here To Start Blogging To The Bank!

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WordPress Optimization Guide Available Online

As all of my WordPress install service clients know that they all receive an email from me with instructions and links to more instructions on both this site and my Work At Home Business Blog. I have now posted the general instructions here on WordPress Max.

If you decide to use my service I will still send you an email with any detailed instructions pertaining to your particular installation and configuration. And as always I will continue to answer your questions by email or here on Ask Max.

The WordPress Optimization Guide is not really a guide but a list of links to more detailed guides on both my blogs. The guide will continue to evolve here on WordPress Max as does WordPress, and the guide will be updated as needed.

WordPress Optimization Guide

Thanks for reading, Jeff (No my name isn’t Max)

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