Tech Ravings

June 11, 2007 (Tech Raving) Throughout the forums at PayPerPost several “Posties” have had questions about integrating the PayPerPost affiliate tools within their WordPress applications. All that is really involved is editing the WordPress theme and pasting in the PayPerPost affiliate code. There was one instance when PayPerPost servers were running really slow and causing a posties blog site to not operate correctly because of the affiliate codes and posties had to remove said code; again by re-editing the theme.

I am releasing a PayPerPost Tools plug in today for WordPress that allows a postie to install five lines of code into their theme once and be done with any more editing. The PayPerPost Tools plug in has a page for the affiliate code to be installed with check boxes to elect to display the badges on the blog. The PayPerPost Tools also verifies that the PayPerPost servers are running normally and that it is “safe” to load the javascript files and images from PayPerPost .

In essence the PayPerPost Tools plug-in removes the dependencies of a bloggers site from PayPerPost. It makes it easy for a blog administrator to update the Pay Per Post affiliate tools code. The affiliate tools can quickly and easily be turned on or off through the admin section. All without constant theme modification.

For more information or to get the plugin: PayPerPost Tools WordPress Plugin

June 11, 2007 (Tech Ravings) Tech Ravings has just released a new WordPress plug-in named Download Counter. The need for this plug-in stems from developers having no way to record views or downloads of their work with out third-party software or special hacks. Now this can be accomplished within WordPress Blogs.

The plug-in supports all file types which are uploaded to the blog site through the plug-in into the folder of the admins choice. So this does not necessarily mean this plug-in is for developers strictly speaking.

You can get the Download Counter here: Download Counter

June 11, 2007 (Tech Ravings) Although this is a more tehnically advanced WordPress plug-in it’s also a fun one as well. This plug-in allows a WordPress blog owner to create categories of image types for use through a standard img tag. The images within the category will then be rotated through on each page view. In this fashion a simple image gallery can be created.

It all starts with adding a category. In doing so an image name is created and given back in the form of the category name. To use the set of images all that is needed is to use the category image name gif in the src of the img html tag. Every time a web page view calls this image from the bloggers server a catch page returns an image from the category set.

This plug-in comes complete with view statistics to see how many times the graphics category as a sum has been viewed. Each graphic indepedantly is also shown with a view count.

You can get the Image Rotator WordPress plug-in here: Image Rotator