Setting up The Top 10 Best Plugins
December 24th, 2006 by Andrew Chen
Strictly speaking that is John Chow’s top 10 best wordpress plugins. Here is the post he talks about them My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins. I set them all up on my blog and categorized them here
Search Engine Optimization Tools
Google Sitemap Generator
Optimal Title
Traffic Generation Tools
Recent Comments
Related Posts
Feedburner Feed Replacement
Digg This
Advertisement Tools
AdSense Deluxe
WordPress Administration Tools
Sidebar Widget
Wordpress Database Backup
Akismet Comment Spam Killer
Recent Comments actually comes with Sidebar Widget. WordPress Database Backup and Akismet Comment Spam Killer come in wordpress. Another thing related to SEO is the format of the permalinks. It can be changed on the options page. I use this format, “/%postname%-%post_id%.html”, to make every post looks like an html page. As I heard some search engines don’t index dynamic generated pages. An html extension makes them looks like a static page to those search engines.
If you may notice the header image of the blog is randomly changed. I have made totally 69 header images and I will continue to add more if I find good photos. If you open the source of the page you will fine these few lines of Javascript codes implements the dynamic header background images.
var headerimg = "misty" + Math.round(Math.random()*100%69).toString()
+ ".jpg";
if (headerimg == "misty0.jpg"){
headerimg = "misty.jpg";
}
var headerimg = "url("+ headerimgroot
+ "/wp-content/themes/mistylook/img/"
+ headerimg + ")";
document.getElementById("headerimage").style.backgroundImage
= headerimg ;
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Hi Andrew! I came here from John Chow’s blog. I see that you use same theme as John use on his blog. Can you tell me which theme it is and where I can find it? Also I would like to know how you added this search on top and those adsense ads for products on right. It ‘ll be grate if you answer on my questions. (well, this is first comment on your blog)
Hi Milan. I am glad I have got the first coment. I am using mistylook theme. I looked at your blog and I think you found it already. As for embeding Google search on top and puting the adsense ads on the the right, I think I am going to do anoter post just to explain it. Stay tune.
[…] I have spend quite some time lately to set up my blog and try to make it different from other blogs that are using the same theme. But it doesn’t look much different. You can tell it is still a mistyook theme which you can download from here. There are two changes I made to the theme. I added the random header image. The header image changes every time a page is reloaded. I explained how to do it in this post. The second thing is that I replace the original wordpress search box with custom Google search. In response to my first comment, I try to explain how to made this change here. […]
Thank you for your answer! As you saw, I found that this is mistylook theme. I found it on John Chow’ s daughter blog!
I’ve got some questions more fro you (yes, I know I’m boring, but we beginers in blogging need to help each other :)): where did you get this header images - i googled and nothing found; I went on sxc.hu, but there are some full sized images (did you find like that ones and that croped them?); second question is how did you insert this google ads - I tried to insert it in template file, but it’s doesn’t working.
Also I want to recommend you two more interesting plugins: Subscribe To Comments and Add Meta Tags.
I tend to collect whatever image catches my eye when I search the internet. They are not the original size. As you thought I croped them. As for the ads I use adsense-deluxe plugin. One the Top 10. After you install the plugin and name your ad template. Insert them into the main index template and the single post template. I displayed the next line after each of the ad template so you can know the exact postion
<?php adsense_deluxe_ads(’ad template name’); ?>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php adsense_deluxe_ads(’ad template name’); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
The ad within the post have to be add post by post.
blog on…
Thank you for your help but I have problems with this AdSense Deluxe plugin. So I ask you what you write to replace “ad template name” in code: example, you name your ad top468×60; do you write here ‘top468×60′, ‘adsense#top468×60′, ‘‘ or something else? Anything I insert do nothing.
Hi Milan, That is right. Replace ‘ad template name’ in your code with your own ad template name, and I have corrected some typo in the code of my previous comment
I also use the Mistylook theme and would like to have the random image header as you have. Your images are all very nice btw. Where do I put the code and where do I put the images?
Thanks.
The image files are put into the following folder
\wp-content\themes\mistylook\img
The code is put into the footer.php
Thanks. I’m having trouble getting it to work though.
Exactly what code should I put into the footer.php? and where in the footer.php do I put it into?