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Remember the time when you felt so frustating while upgrading your Wordpress? I felt that before, and I hate it. We had to go through all the hassles yet the errors. I even decided not to upgrade my Wordpress at all, just left it with what it was as long as there’s no problem with my sites. But now, since I was introduced by Rahul from Devils Workshop, upgrading Wordpress couldn’t be more easier. It took me only ten minutes to do the upgrade. Thank’s to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin.
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Popularity: 16%

I just installed AdSense-Deluxe Wordpress Plugin, a plugin that helped me to insert Google AdSense ads inside my blog and only visible in the single page. It is a WordPress plugin offering advance options for managing the automatic insertion of Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, or any other ads to your posts. You have full control of when and where those ads are displayed.

It’s easy to use and very simple. All you have to do is download and install the plugin in the cPanel. Activate it in the Wordpress panel, then go to Option/Setting -> Adsense-Deluxe. In here you can insert your Adsense code and set how you want the ads to be displayed.

At first in Adsense-Deluxe option/setting page, I found error when I was trying to set the option and insert the Adsense code.

Cannot load AdSense-Deluxe.php

I searched and tried to find the solution for this error and I found it in Ad.Click.ol.o.gy.com :

Take the “Adsense-Deluxe.php” file out of the “adsense-deluxe_wp_plugin_v0.8″ folder and place it directly in the plugin folder. Activate the plugin again, or if it still active, deactivate and reactivate.

This should fix the problem. It fixed mine. Now I’m able to insert ads inside the post, wherever I want. Just insert the code <!–adsense–> in the place that I want the ads to be displayed with my choices of size and color to blend with the post.

Here’s the list of another plugins for Adsense that I found :

AdSense Injection - Download v2.0
Insert Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. It will takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts Adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and lets you pick how many to show on single post pages. It lets you pick how many total ads to show at any time as well and lets you set the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.

AdSense Inline - Download
Insert Adsense in the middle of the post.

WhyDoWork AdSense Plugin - Download v1.2
It’s a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. You can also set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older than ‘x’ days. For example, you can insert 468×60 ad at the bottom of a new article, and once that article turns 7 days old it will have a more aggressive 336×280 ad blended with the text from the beginning of that article.

AdRotator - Download
It will displays any ads which is randomly between any number of advertisements, images, or other codes. This can be used to distribute your ads impressions between various networks and to provide variety to users.

AdSense Manager - Download v3.2.13
A WordPress plugin for managing Adsense ads on your site. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with widgets.

Popularity: 32%

After received notification email from Technorati, I decided to upgrade my WordPress to 2.5. Before I go on with the upgrade process, I backed up my database first. I found couple of plugins for backing up database, but all of them don’t have the restore system. You have to restore the back up manually. Until I found WP-DBManager plugin.

WP-DBManager is a WordPress plugin that manages your WordPress database. It allows you to back up database, restore database, repair database, delete back up database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. It also support automatically scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. All backing up and restore only with one click. So I choose this plugin to backing up my database.

After done with back up, I deactivated all the plugin. This is what you must do before you do the upgrade process. Since I installed the WordPress using Fantastico that provided by my hosting account, I might as well use it to upgrade my WordPress. Upgrading WordPress with Fantastico is one of the easiest way to do it. It tooks only seconds until it showed that the upgrading process is done. But this system only available if you install your WordPress from the first time using Fantastico, and never use the other method of upgrading after that.

Next I checked my WordPress and yes it had been upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I activated all the plugins again. But ups.. I faced error while activating the Popularity Contest Plugin :

“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error“

And the site could not be open either. So I tried to find the solution for this issue in WordPress Support Forum and I found one discussion about it. The solution was found in Blogvaria :

Open popularity-contest.php and scroll down to line 59.
Replace require (’../../wp-blog-header.php’);
with require (’../wp-blog-header.php’);

And the fix worked like a charm. SimplyDunn can be viewed again, and now it officially runs with WordPress 2.5. One new thing that I found in this new version that I like. It’s the one click plugin updater that already included in the plugin panel. So when there’s a new version of plugin released, they will provide you with the link to upgrade. Just click the link and your plugin will be updated already. So no more manually upload via cPanel.

I’m so released that the upgrade process is done. And the error that I found had been solved fast, not like My Interesting Files issue which took weeks to be solved. And the upgrade process itself, not as hard as I thought. Or maybe because I was using the automatic system instead of manual. I’m planning to do the upgrade for my other site as well, soon. So have you upgrade yours?

Popularity: 27%

Here the list of plugins that I’ve uploaded recently :

Share This

Share This is a plugin that provide your readers the easy way to submit your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email. It’s very simple to use. The widget is customizable. You can choose which social web services that you want to display, choose the icon and you can modify the color of the widget. Share This plugin now available for Blogger and TypePad users.

Popularity Contest

Popularity Contest is a plugin that determine which of your post are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view, and keep a count of your post, category, archive views, comments and trackbacks to create a popularity score for each post.

Optimal Title

Optimal Title is a plugin that allows you to have the page title appear before your blog name. It’s more effective because it provides more meaningful search engine results and browser bookmark names, gives the search engines a better idea of what the post is about which will generate more traffic and better optimization to your site.

WP-Chunk

If someone posting a huge URL on your comment section, they might break the design of your website on certain browser. WP-Chunk plugin will help to shorten the URLs within submitted comments. It does not affect URLs within posts, just comments.

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator

Sitemaps are an easy for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. And this plugin will generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your site. This format is supported by Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask.com.

Popularity: 15%

Here the list of plugins that I use for my comment section to make it more attractive and hopefully will get more comments.

Do Follow

Do Follow plugin lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments. Nofollow is not good for bloggers who are trying to increase their readership and develop their network. Cause it tells search engines not to ‘follow’ links to external sites so that they do not gain any advantages in the ranking process. Turn off ‘nofollow’. Show your commenters that you appreciate them and spread the link love.

Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

MyAvatars

MyAvatars is a plugin that shows the commentator’s MyBlogLog avatar behind the comment. This really makes people excited to comment by having their avatar there.

CommentLuv

CommentLuv is a plugin that will add a line at the end of a comment with a link to the commentator’s latest blog post. This way the commentator also gets a free backlink to his blog. This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers and also will get you more commentators.

Comment Relish

Comment relish is a plugin that developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. It’s a great way to follow up your readers who commented on your post and invite them to join your feeds.

Popularity: 57%