WordPress 2.8

I just upgrade my blogging platform into WordPress 2.8 by integrated upgrade function.WordPress 2.8 was said to do a lot of enhancements for themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed.You could get the detail in the following clip:

More than 790 bugs have been fixed in this latest version.Thus,to do the upgrade is a necessary thing for all WordPress users.

If you want to know more about WordPress 2.8,please visit here to get a brief reading.

Happy blogging! :)

Thanks,Josh!

I received RM100 fund transfer from a personal account of Josh Lim,the founder and managing director of Advertlets.com.What’s up?Here’s the story.

advertlets logo

I started blogging from 2006.I suppose to be the early blogger in Asia.During that period,tons of new stuff related to blogs appeared,including blog ads.I joined Advertlets once the business was launched.However,I’ve never been a celebrity blogger so that I spent around 2 years in Advertlets in order to earn my first RM100.I was happy that I could get some extra money from blogging.But later on,my bad experience also was coming.

I requested to cash out on 4 Feb,2009 and then sitting quietly at home for the funds.After 2 months,it was still so quiet and no sign telling me that I could get it.Thus,I wrote an email to Advertlets Customer Service and I hope that they were able to help me process that withdrawal.I felt so sad because I wouldn’t get any reply from them.All right,I kept on sending emails and finally I got a reply saying that the fund will be transferred by 15 May,2009.How many emails did I send regarding to cash-out?Four.It’s not the end.

Yesterday was 14 May,2009-the deadline that they promised to pay-up.Unfortunately I couldn’t get that fund.With my depression,I wrote another email to customer service and at the same time left my words in Advertlets official blog.I think Josh saw my message there and that’s why he did the fund transfer immediately.He gotta know how upset I was.

advertlets cashout Thanks,Josh.You let me see the hope of Advertlets since the big boss still wanna hear the true words from people like me.But then,why are those staff working so inefficiently?I don’t know.

I just leave my doubt to Josh and I think he has to find out a solution as soon as possible because I’m not the only one facing such a problem.

Finally,I do wish Advertlets grows healthy and wealthy.(Ehm…By the way,you still owe me RM22.59,Josh!That could be a mini pack of Haagen Dazs probably.)  :P

How to put Google Ads below a post title in a single page on WordPress

Adding ads into sidebar is not a hard work because nowadays a lot of themes have reserved some spaces for it.However,most people want to put ads in between a post title and its content so as to catch visitor’s eyes.How could it happen?It’s just several steps.

  • Log in control panel(dashboard) of WordPress

Log in WordPress

  • Going to left column there looking for “Appearance” and click the sub-button “Editor”.(The layout is based on WordPress 2.7)

WordPress dashboard

  • Now you should see the theme editor.On the right of the editor window,it’s listing all themes files.You need to find out “single.php” and click it in order to edit this file. (The file names may differ because of different themes,but you have to get the file related to single post.)

WordPress theme files

  • Search the line “<h3 class="storytitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>and then add your ad code below this line. (The line may have a few differences on wording.)
  • Finally don’t forget to click “update file” to save your edit.

Only 5 steps in total and it won’t take more than 10 minutes.Therefore,if you want ads performing better in your blog,just try to insert your ads in some nice places like where I indicate here.

Damn simple,right? :)