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Here the posts I found that I think interesting and I’d like to share with you:
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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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Yesterday I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6, using Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, installed in my Wordpress by Rahul from Devils Workshop. Thank’s bro. This plugin is really helpful. It took me only about 10 minutes to upgrade my Wordpress.

Anyway, after upgraded to Wordpress 2.6, I found problem while trying to insert the image to the post. Uploading the images was successful. But after went through the whole crunching routine, the thumbnail did not appear and when i inserted the image into the post, nothing showed up either.
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Here the posts I found this past weeks that I think interesting and I would like to share with you :

Switching Domain Name with Wordpress
There might some cases that force you to change your domain name. Maybe you found out that your domain name was not being indexed by Google like what happened to Jason from Blogtomic, formerly Blogging4Cash. If you have intention to do so, this tutorial is for you to check out.

Awesome Highlighter
Lets you highlight text on webpages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. This is useful when you want to show some parts that you think is important.

8 Easy Firefox Tweaks for Super Fast Web Browsing
Try these easy Firefox tweaks and you will see that you’re surfing the internet faster.

Boost Your Technorati Rank
Tips from David to boost your Technorati rank without cheating or gaming the system.

Ads on Blogs - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Tips from Mig about how to monetize your site with ads without being penalized by Google.

9 Alternative Ways To Access Blocked Sites
Here are few ways to bypass the restrictions and surf like normal for those who’s getting blocked from accessing certain sites.

13 Awesome Screensavers
Bored with your recent screensaver? Check out this awesome collections of screensavers.

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Upon upgrading to WordPress 2.5, there was one error that I had to deal with. I found error everytime I wanted to upload image to the post, so in the mean time, I had to upload the image via control panel.

I searched to find the solution for this, and I found it in WordPress Forum posted by cjane :

I added this code into my .htaccess

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

.. it seems to make my image uploading/insert to post work now.

And yes, mine is also working now. I can upload images from WordPress as usual. Thank’s cjane!

I also want to thank Eddy from Magpies Zone who’s also trying to help me with this issue. Thank’s dude, you rock!

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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.

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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?

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