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Maxblog Ninja Affiliate Review

August 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

I don’t know if any of you have heard of the Max Blog Press Ninja Affiliate plugin, but its very cool and a must have plugin for anyone who runs a WordPress site and wants to sell affiliate products from your site.

This plugin allows you to easily change any of the text in your WordPress plugin to a high converting affiliate link. You can use this to promote Click Bank products or better you can use it to promote CPA offers either on your blog or off. Many people want to conceal the source of their CPA traffic and this makes it easy to manage your CPA affiliate links from a single location. For example lets say you were promoting a product you can drop a link anywhere to http://www.somesite.com/go/youraffiliatelink and it will redirect through your blog. This allows you to not only make the affiliate link look pretty it also has some built in referrer tracking which allows you to easily see which efforts are producing the best results.

If you combine the power of this plugin with a product like senuke then you will really rack up the commissions very soon. Right now the Ninja Affiliate is on sale and you can get for 30 bucks less than you normally get it. This is a great deal and something that is not done very much. If you are serious about earning money through affiliate links then check this out. Watch the videos on the sales page and you will understand how it works.

Another good use of this plugin is that you can use it to increase the internal linking structure of your site with very little work. This allows you to basically page rank sculpt your blog very easily and it can really help you out with how important Google will view posts within your blog. Check out Ninja now since your competitors are using it and really racking up the commissions.

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Revolution Themes Review

July 6, 2008 By 1 Comment

I installed Brian Gardner’s City Revolution Theme on another of my sites today and it came out really well. I bought the developer set of these themes a while back but never installed one. I had started work on putting the Magazine theme on that same site I installed the city theme on this morning, but at the time I did it there were only a couple of post on that blog and it made configuration of the theme difficult. As a result I went with a free theme on the site and just let the Revolution Themes gather digital dust.

Initially the themes can look a little over whelming, but if you dive right into them, then its not that difficult at all. For the majority of the themes you will need at least 4 categories on your blog and 5 is better as you will need a Featured category for most of the themes. Its then a matter of figuring out what the category ID is of the category you wish to feature and then edit the templates to handle it. Editing the templates is a little tedious, but not hard once you figure out where everything is located. The only way this could be better if Brian had written a plugin to allow you to set the categories and text of the featured sections from within the admin panel which would make it easier for users without comfort with modifying wordpress themes.

The themes are starting to have options which can be set in the admin panel, so this may be something that is on Brian’s list for a future release. Overall I like the way the theme’s look and its quite possible you will see one of the versions on this blog very soon. I need to create some images prior to installing it here to obtain the look I desire, but after going through the city theme this morning I’ve got some ideas how I can make one or a combination of a couple of the themes work out well for this blog.

Brian has a free version of the themes which you can download to try them out on your blog before you purchase, but the free version does not have near the customization features as you get with the professional pack. If you want a professional looking theme at a decent price then you may want to check these out and see what they can do for your blog.

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5 WordPress Theme Development Resources

January 5, 2008 By 5 Comments

I have finally decided its definitely time for me to learn how to develop WordPress themes. I’m too cheap to pay someone else to develop a theme when there are so many free ones around the net. In No Nonsense terms it really does not matter what a blog looks like anyway. The most important thing is the content and I still believe that, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I want something unique on this blog. Plus there is also the benefit that if I learn how to create WordPress themes and maybe even a few plugins then that could create a great resource for this blog’s readers as I could offer some themes and plugins up for download. I never really took the time to learn PHP, but that will be coming soon. I don’t see it as much of a problem. After all I do have a programming degree, my only real obstacle is that I’m graphically challenged. I know what looks good once its created, but envisioning it from scratch is sometimes difficult 

I decided I’ll let you guys learn along with me if you so desire. I’ve found a few resources that will help me with this task so I’ll share them here.

 

WordPress Reference Guide. This is a little basic but provides several of the needed tags in a quick and dirty fashion.

Advanced WordPress Guide This is an extension of the above guide and I’m sure it will come in handy as I advance.

Creating Widget Aware themes is one of the reasons I want to start developing my own themes. A lot of the free themes only include a minimum number of Sidebar Widgets in the themes. This means if you want to add some content to the footer or after a post you are stuck modifying the theme code. This is not very user friendly so my themes will have Widgets in all the right places. This little short blog post is a great resource.

Tagstention is one of two Dreamweaver Extensions I have located to help me in the process of developing WordPress themes. I’ve only played around with it a little bit, but  can already tell its going to make life a lot easier.

Another Extension is Dreamweaver Template Builder it does basically the same thing as TagStention. I installed them both in my copy of Dreamweaver and I’ll decide later which I like better.

 

 

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