How to Upload Screenshots to WordPress

How to Upload Screenshots to WordPress

How to Upload Screenshots to WordPress or discovering how to add screen shots to WordPress is easy with the FireFox plugin, but if you are like me and want to keep the plugins down to a manageable number, then here is a way to do it using FireFox but without a plugin.

  • Create your Screenshot
  1. Create your Screenshot using Alt/PrtScr [Captures the topmost window].
  2. Open the WordPress post editor and click in a blank space and click Ctr/V [Paste].  Nothing will happen on your screen, but Firefox will create a file called moz-screenshot1.jpg inside your computer.
  3. Next, use the WP ‘Add Media’ dialog to upload a picture

  4. and navigate to C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Temp and select the latest moz-screenshot.jpg image

5.  Edit the Title option and so on and click insert to finish adding a screenshot to your WordPress post.

  • Mozilla FireFox Quirk

This works because you tried to ‘paste’ the screenshot into a Rich-Text Editor[W/Press], which triggers the action of Mozilla storing the screenshot in the User/Username/AppData/Local/Temp folder.  This is easier than opening a photo editing program, pasting in the picture, and then saving it to a folder on your hard drive before you can do your screenshot upload.

  • XP Users

XP Users will probably find the path looks more like C://Documents and Settings/Users/Yourname/Local Settings/Temp

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How to Add a computer to a WiFi Network with a WAP

How to Add a computer to a WiFi Network with a WAP.

  • Wireless connection is connected but no Internet

If you have this problem, then these steps should fix it

  • Two Step Fix

There are two essential elements: One, the IPCONFIG settings, and Two, the WiFi Network Encryption.

  • Default IP settings

1. Run the DOS cmd [Programs/Run/CMD] ipconfig/all on the main computer and note the Default IP settings for the network card, something like 10.1.1.1 and 255.0.0.0 or 192.168.1.0 and 255.255.255.1

Set [RightClick the WiFi Icon] the computer you want to add to the same settings in:Network Connections/Wireless Network Connection/Properties/Internet Protocol[TCP-IP]/Properties - the Default Gateway and the Subnet Mask must be identical, and the IP address different.

  • WiFi Network Properties [Encryption]

2. Network Connections/Wireless Network Connection/Properties/Wireless Networks/Preferred Networks/YourWiFi/Properties/ - these WEP Encryption properties must be set the same as the main computer [and the wireless access point].

Now you know how to add a computer to a WiFi netwok with access point [WAP] and resolve the problem of wireless connection is connected but no internet!

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How to Include a Page from another Website

How to Include a Page from another Website

In this tutorial discover how to Include a Page from another website without getting the nasty Warning - URL file access is disabled in the server configuration

  • URL file Access Warning

This is the big problem to do because you usually get this warning - URL file access is disabled in the server configuration. What it means is you can’t use a server side file [such as asp, php] from another server inside a server side file. So using the PHP include like this <?php include (’http://someothersite.com/index.php’); ?> will fail and give you the dreaded Warning - URL file access is disabled in the server . However,  it works perfectly for a file stored on the same server!

  • cURL is the Cure!

Instead of the usual PHP Include, use this code instead to Include a Page from another website:

<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, “http://someothersite.com/index.php”);
curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
?>

  • Preserve your SEO

The beauty of this method is that your page will still be crawled by the search engines as usual, whereas solving this problem with frames leaves a lot of doubt as to whether the content is crawled and cached!

  • Fast updating

A side effect of using this method is that you can keep one file of, say, current events, on your server, and include it in many other websites.  Then all you need to do is update one file and every other site will display the updated information automatically - ‘aint that sweet!

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My Starter Blog

My Starter Blog

My Starter Blog is a great alternative to WordPress if you need a stripped down version. It is a very lean program and comes without all the clutter of Widgets, Plugins, etc.

  • Update

The original version required you to write your own HTML to style the posts, but the latest release has a built in text editor with style buttons. The Themes are also upgraded. More: V1.6.0 is out!

  • Low Bandwidth

My Starter Blog has no MySql database or other bandwidth and disk storage load, just a few ‘flat’ files that need only one or two hundred kb of space.

  • Simple CMS

This is a Content Management System [CMS] that is really simple to use, and doesn’t need megabytes of program files to run.

  • Ping Google and Pingomatic

The really great thing about it for me is that it has the ‘Ping’ function included so that your new ‘niche’ blog will be instantly found by the search engines.  A conventional website can take months to get into the SERPS, but this blog ‘lookalike’ takes care of that and puts you on a level footing with Wordpress - there is even provision for SEO!

  • Try Before you Buy

There is a free single shot version you can download [MyStarterBlog ] to try it out, and if you like it you can buy it.  The price is only $7.

  • Key Benefits [From steve's Blog]
  • More secure since there is no backend that can be hacked
  • Learn to use FTP software, HTML(posts/pages)
  • Interact directly with your readers
  • Use the 8 included themes that you can modify to your taste or get new ones
  • Search engine friendly out of the box so that your readers can find your blog quickly
  • Auto-generate the RSS feed and sitemap.xml
  • Create unlimited blogs (paid version)
  • Import text files in a batch to start your blog faster (paid version)
  • Import your WordPress blog(XML) (paid version)
  • Free Basic version(1 blog)
  • Low cost paid version available with free upgrades for life
  • No spyware or adware
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Hide Adsense from Social Traffic

Hide Adsense from Social Traffic

The way to hide Adsense from social traffic is complex. The concept here is that ‘Search Traffic” is motivated and focused, and therefore more likely to click, and ‘Social Traffic’ is just that, the surfers want to be amused or entertained, not educated or fulfilled.

  • Show Your Adsense ads to Focused Search Traffic

Google Adsense will penalize you (called Smart Pricing) with low value click commissions if you send them lots of traffic that doesn’t buy anything, so there is a very good case to show your Adsense ads only to focused Search Traffic!

  • Hide it with Javascript

This code will display an Adsense ad (inside gooad.htm) in an ‘I’ frame to search traffic, or else show an alternative banner to social traffic

<script type="text/javascript">
var myArray = [
'/search?',
'.yahoo.',
'search.',
'/search/',
'images.google.',
];
var i, numDomains = myArray.length, found = false;
for (i = 0; i < numDomains; i++) {
if (document.referrer.indexOf(myArray[i]) > -1) {
found = true;
}
}
document.write((found ? ‘<iframe src=”http://mysite.com/gooad.htm” width=”468″ height=”60″ scrolling=”no” border=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ style=”border:none;” frameborder=”0″></iframe>‘ : ‘<a href=”http://yourID.therichboytes.click2sell.eu/campaign?id=XX352″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://mysite.com/img/richboy.jpg” alt=”Work At Home - Earn $200+ Per Day At Home” border=”0″></a>‘));
</script>

The Red code is your adsense code, where gooad.htm contains the usual Adsense Script, and the green code is the alternate banner code

  • Hide it with PHP

You can do the same with a PHP script like this:

<?php
function searchengine(){
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$SE = array( ‘/search?’, ‘images.google.’, ‘web.info.com’, ’search.’, ‘del.icio.us/search’, ’soso.com’, ‘/search/’, ‘.yahoo.’);
foreach ($SE as $source) {
if (strpos($ref,$source)!==false) return true;
}
return false;
}
if (function_exists(’searchengine’)) {
if (searchengine()) {
echo “<script type=\”text/javascript\”><!–
google_ad_client = \”pub-070534895542XXXX\”;
/* OrgBan468×60 11/07 */
google_ad_slot = \”8587849573\”;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//–>
</script>
<script type=\”text/javascript\”
src=\”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\”>
</script>
“;
}
else echo”<a href=\”http://yourID.therichboytes.click2sell.eu/campaign?id=23352\” target=\”_blank\”><img src=\”http://mysite.com/img/richboy.jpg\” alt=\”Work At Home - Earn $200+ Per Day At Home\” border=\”0\”></a>“;
}
?>

The above script will also display either Adsense or a Banner as is appropriate…. either displaying adsense to surfers, or doing its job: to hide adsense from social traffic.

  • Please notice that where the Google ad script is included in PHP you need to ‘Escape’ all the double quotes - like this: script=”ad text” must be edited to read script=\”ad text\” and change any ’slanted’ quotes like and to vertical quotes like these ” ‘
  • NB 2- Please Note:

WordPress and some other programs will turn the quotation marks into ’smart quotes’ and stuff up the code, so be aware of this and make sure both single and double quotes are all vertical, not sloping when you ‘paste’ in code!

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Get Rid of CommentLuv Flaw Once and For All

Get Rid of CommentLuv Flaw Once and For All

I am a dedicated fan of ‘CommentLuv’ in Wordpress blogs, you know, that plug-in that seeks out your last post and hangs a link to it on the end of the ‘Comment’ you are making on a blog: BUT, I really hate those blogs where the apostrophe is missing from the code and your ‘CommentLuv’ link has your name with  two Esses on the end - see red text in example below:

Rhys Your comment is awaiting moderation.

“QUOTE”

Hey Tom!

This post is not just good sense, it is creative sense! Thanks for the heads up on this; if we are not enjoying our blogs, then what the heck ARE we there for?

I blog mainly for the interaction, and you have highlighted the things that create interaction - particularly #2, with your ‘liven it up’ ideas!

:-)
Rhyss last blog post..Hosting from Hell -

  • The Cure:

The blog-owners cure for this is really easy - Open your WPress dashboard at Settings/CommentLuv and add the apostrophe after [name] as in the example below:

Change  [name]s last blog post.. to read  [name]s last blog post..

Then all your  commentators sigs will be correct like this

:-)
Rhys’s last blog post..Hosting from Hell -

  • Get CommentLuv

Maybe Andy Bailey (Fiddyp.co.uk) of Comment Luv could edit his plugin to include the apostrophe as the default - after all, that would be grammatically correct! (What say Andy?)

  • Update

Andy just fixed that with version V2.0b Release 11. It seems that this is not quite a simple problem because some versions of WordPress stall when you add the apostrophe.  The cure is to update your CommentLuv or to put the ascii code instead, I.E.

[name]&#180;s last blog post..

  • Download CommentLuv

If you don’t already have this magic plugin, leap on over to Andy’s site and download it now, set it up, and add the apostrophe when you do the settings, so that you can get rid of CommentLuv Flaw once and for all.

  • Update

Andy has revamped the CommentLuv Plugin and it now has lots of new features, like Click Stats, works on Blogger, etc., and the dreaded “Apostraphe Flaw” is now a thing of the past.

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