Now I can see Google Ads on this blog. The day before yesterday, Seejay, amazed and showed me Google Ads on my blog. It was not a huge surprise for me as Matt once said that they have plans doing such a thing and I put my opinion here.

However surprising thing was that I didn’t see any notices from Matt for any other WP guys saying “Google Ads are ready for WP”. Or maybe I’ve missed all the news (I have Matt’s personal blog [previously photomatt.net] and WP.com blog on my RSS reader though).

Once I saw the ad on my blog I scanned through some of my WP admin pages to find if I have any control over those ads. However I failed. Maybe I missed that too. The not-so-cool thing is that I had an “Ads Free Blog” banner on my blog. Probably few of my readers have been laughing at me for this. If you come in this category please note that it’s not my fault. By the way I erased that banner yesterday.

I believe that Matt had to put a note about this. If he has done its ok but if it isn’t… Maybe it was a kind of testing or something but still WP guys have responsibility to post a note.

If it’s gone, let it be gone. This little bug is not enough to break my love on sweet WordPress. Still I love you dear WordPress :) .

PS- I am waiting for Matt’s reply for my email on this issue.

Update(07.04.09):WordPress now has a Twitter widget.

Updated this post with new images & steps [17 Dec 2008].

We do love WordPress(WP) so much even though we lack Javascript support. If you ever wanted to add your Twitter updates on your wordpress.com blog, here’s a simple way to just get the thing done.

First, Go to your Twitter page & retrieve your Twitter RSS address & copy-paste it on …err..a text file ;) .

In Your Twitter Home page at the bottom left corner there’s a button named RSS.

[If You use Firefox just right click on the RSS button & choose 'copy Link location'.]

I normally Burn my feeds with feedburner. But I had problems burning Twitter feed. There is a validation problem in Twitter RSS. In this case you can use plain Twitter RSS address.

You can have a wide variety of feeds with Friendfeed.com. You can get twitter feed through friendfeed. And also mixup other social networks into one feed easily with Friendfeed. To get a Twitter feed through Friendfeed just replace ‘chanux‘ with your Friendfeed name in following URL. Make sure you’ve added Twitter on friendfeed.

http://friendfeed.com/chanux?service=twitter&format=atom [you can burn this feed]

Then find your Facebook ‘My Status’ RSS feed & copy it down too.

• Make sure you are logged in to Facebook & follow this link to your Facebook Minifeed page.

• And look for following feed link on minifeed page & save the link address.

You can get your Facebook Status FEED address there. Your Feed address would look similar to this. http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=#########& viewer=#########&key=##########&format=rss20

Now the WordPress stuff.

• Now go to widgets page in your wordpress admin pages.

• Add an RSS widget.

• Choose to edit the widget.

• Paste the RSS address & choose a title for the widget. Select number of items to display from drop down box (5 is decent).  click done.

• Do not forget to Save changes :)

You can add Twitter and/or Facebook feed address in your sidebar like this.

Hope This tutorial is helpful. If you like, consider following me on Twitter :) . All Images are uploaded on PhotBucket

Do you want to be *you* wherever you are on the internet? .Did you use your Nick name &/or avatar to represent you when you comment on blogs, shouting in forums & so on? Have you ever been looking for a universal Identity on internet?  If you are a serious online person you might have said “yes” for three times.
I always wanted to show it’s me in my online activities [which are not intended to be stealthy ;) ]. That’s why I registered on mybloglog.com  , Gravatar.com  & was proud to be on wordpress.com . I wanted a universal ID for my online activities.Open ID did not impress me though.
However we are one step close to such a thing, a universal online ID because automattic acquired Gravatar.com . Automattic the company behind WordPress, Technorati  which are cool services is now has their hands on Gravatar.com which gave us a globally recognized avatar. I believe this would be a great combination & it would give us nearly-universal ID.
Once you are registered & do the rest, Gravatar.com let’s you use your email address as a key to your identity. When you put your email when you comment on a Gravatar enabled blog your avatar uploaded on Gravatar shows up to represent you.
From now on all wordpress.com blogs will be Gravatar enabled. WordPress will soon provide easy ways to set self hosted wordpress blogs, Gravatar enabled. I feel this would get me nearly-universal online ID & great it would be my email address.
Hurry up & join the club. Read this before the jump.

PS: All about setting up gravatar support for your wordpress.org blog is HERE

Wow it’s amazing… I can post to my my blog from my Facebook Account. I can add bookmarks, I can check my stats & I can find if my friends post on wordpress. It works fine & I know WP guys are improving like always. WordPress is cool unless you are gonna make money on your blog [Soon you'll earn on WP too].

**BANG** **BANG** any more to leave WordPress? **BANG** Phew!

PS-this post is from inside my Facebook ;)

Selfhosted wordpress people would get this feature soon according to Matt.

WordPress Rocks. It gets whatever I want whenever I want.Fell in love with Facebook and WordPress got me an app. wow . check it here.

Hmm.. At last there’s a hope. On wordpress blog . Matt declared that the long awaited feature would be available sooner or later.

“For those who were wondering, it is of course your ads. We do show our ads
occasionally on WP.com, but anything more than that would be at your
discretion and with your adsense ID.“

I’m not a big fan of ads but it’s good if there’s a-cent-a-day from my blog.Reading  the comments of the blog entry I mentioned before, I found there’s a lot of Ad-haters on wordpress. As wordpress doesn’t allow javascript there weren’t ads on wordpress.com blogs. I also believe that it made reading wordpress.com blogs a far pleasent experience. However the request for ads is also not unfair. It’s good if we can earn while having fun.

I’ve seen a lot of people leaving WP covering there 4ss with hell a lot of different reasons. No javascript, CSS editing is not free, no enough free space are few of them. But as I check there new blogging homes I realized that they’ve found a good price for there souls-ads.

I also have tried some other blogging platforms but never found the peace in mind I experience here on wordpress even though there were few $s. People who didn’t sell their souls & appreciated the peace in mind are going to get the reword now.
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I missed the chance of commenting on that blog post I mentioned before. So I put my ideas here. Matts blog post was to ask wordpress users, which feature suits most to be put under the post.
The given options were

* Related posts
* Ads (your ads)
* Blogroll or avatars
* Popular posts
* Random same-blog posts
* Author profile

Here’s my opinion…

In my point of view ‘Social bookmarking buttons’ is a must & I’ve been waiting a long for that [Thanx for the digg button WP :) even it's a pain of neck & I have to be a diggvertiser with it].

secondly ‘related (same blog) posts’ which would probably make the readers spend another minute on my blog

Next comes ads. Means few bucks for my studies :)
Ads will encourage users to buy paid services in WP. It’ll attract more users & will stop some leavers [.

Some other cool features…

• Page stats.

• Translation buttons.

• Something like (improved)Hello dolly – matts widget for self-hosted WP blogs.

• ‘Rate this’ feature (like in spreadfirefox.com) or ‘Rape this’ feature ;) .

• For something smashing, Make a widget box named “under the post” in widgets page, making all widgets available ‘under the post’ :D .

WordPress rocks forever.

WordPress Reached One Million mark (Bitta old news)

My congrats to the wrocking Blogging platform.

Link 

Huh!!! ar last I found it. The post to blog software which makes my blogging experience easier. Did u read ma last post on Flock & are u a big big Firy lover like me?. If so this is the blog post you were waiting for. I found the performancing Firefox extension here which I’m using now to type this post. WOw It’s great. I think It’s better than Flocks blogging facility. I don’t say Flocks thing is BAD. But as a Firy lover this is the thing for me. Just try it out now & don’t forget to comment me :-).

I might cover another post on Performancing in near future. For now I’ll say that you can post to almost all the popular blogging services with it.

Also don’t forget to try these Firefox extensions.
Down Them All
Fasterfox

powered by performancing firefox

Hi there, I found some aspirin for that posting headache. I found a nice software which I can type ma blog offline & post it later without going to the WP Admin pages. It’s Flock, a browser which you can publish your blog posts & upload images to flickr with. I think It’s using the sourcecode of Firefox. Just give this a try If you were looking for a software to publish posts to your blog; nize interface. It’ll be your browser too (if you like it)

Flock supports Typepad, Movable type, MetaWeblog, Blogger & Atom too.

Blogged with Flock

What do you wanna know, Adding affiliate links/banners in to your ‘www.whatever.wordpress.com’ Blog? OK I’ll show you the way. I got to know this from mozilla community. It’s a long story & to find it read ‘The power of community’ my previous Blog entry. You’ll also find a ‘pictured how to’ on this very topic HERE.

Just log in to your wordpress admin pages (where you go to put your posts). On the top of page there is that blue stripe which includes your administrative tools. Click ‘My Dashboard’ & go right this way.~ Blogroll>Add Link.

Here in ‘Add Link’ page you’ll see a text box named ‘Address’ [1]. Enter the link address here.

If you have a picture to use as a button, click + mark on advanced tab. In ‘Image address’ [2] text box put the address of image. Want more? Just go further.

Egg Samples

Adding your Yahoo IM presence into your wordpress.com Blog

Just HIT THIS. You’ll find something like this.

<a href=http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.target=Your Yahoo ID&.src=pg>

<img border=0 src=http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=Your Yahoo ID&m=g&t=2></a>

Copy

http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.target=Your Yahoo ID&.src=pg

in to [1]

Then Copy

http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=Your Yahoo ID&m=g&t=2

in to [2]

You’re done….wait….remember to click ‘Save Changes’ button.

And another important thing…..

Remember to put ‘Your Yahoo ID’ on appropriate places or get a Yahoo ID saying Your ‘Yahoo ID’. I think the second option is impossible to be done.

You can put this in to a new category by adding a new category like ‘HIT ME’ or something you like. Just hack around & get the thing done.

By changing value 2 into 1 or 3 in

http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=Your Yahoo ID&m=g&t=2

You’ll find something interesting.

Adding ‘Get Firefox’ banner on to your wordpress.com Blog.

You’ll get some pictured instructions HERE.

If this little ‘helping hand’ isn’t good enough for you plz comment your ideas. Tell me how to improve this to be more helpful.