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Can you advertise in WordPress?
Posted by: | Commentswordpress design Question: Can you advertise in WordPress?
Can you post advertisements in wordpress? or design your own blog? or your own header? i tried doing it and it corrupted the whole thing, i want to know if it is possible?
Best Response:
Answer by Word Life
yes you can post advertisements.
How to use WordPress effectively
I think one of the major problems is that WordPress has made it too easy to run your own site. So easy, in fact, that we sometimes forget that we’re actually running our own sites. Not that I’m complaining about how easy it is, but it can present some problems.
Honestly, how often to you back up your database? Really? Don’t lie.
How many of the core developer’s blogs are you subscribed to?
If you’re running your own site, then you’re responsible for it. That’s just the simple truth of the matter.
Here are some useful tips for running your own site
First and foremost, make regular database backups of your blog:
•WordPress backups
•Backing up your database
•WP DB Backup plugin
Run a local install of WordPress on your computer. Yes, even Average Joe should do this to test plugins and themes before using them on a live site (alternately, you can run a test install in a subdirectory of your site):
•Setting up Xampp and WordPress
Make sure you test plugins with the beta releases and release candidates WordPress puts out on your local install and/or your live test site.
If a plugin or theme doesn’t work with a new version, try contacting the author to see if there’ll be a fix for the latest version of WP. Or, at least let them know there’s an issue. Maybe they’re not even aware of it.
Another useful tip might be to check out a plugin or theme author’s site before using their stuff. Some people might not be that dedicated to their work, which is perfectly fine, but as a user, you might want some assurance. Check out what they’ve done and how involved they are within the WordPress community. Maybe that plugin author made a simple plugin and never made plans to update the plugin at all.
Some tips for plugin and theme authors
Any plugin or theme author worth his salt should have a local setup running the latest WordPress version. You can use the tutorial on setting up WordPress with Xampp. It’s quite simple.
Familiarize yourself with WordPress Trac. That’s all the documentation you’ll ever need on seeing where changes are made to the core WordPress code.
Use Subversion with WordPress. You can easily pull the latest development version of WordPress onto your computer. Ptah Dunbar also has a good article on using Subversion. I personally use Tortoise SVN to both track changes within my themes and plugins and to keep my version of WordPress current on my computer.
Finally, set up support forums for your plugins or themes. bbPress is extremely simple to set up. It’s a lot easier to quickly find bugs if you have a community surrounding your work. Trust me, they’ll let you know if something’s broken.
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Contributing To The Theme Review Team
Posted by: | CommentsContributing To The Theme Review Team
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to not only interview Chip Bennett regarding the new WordPress Theme Review team but I also had a chance to speak with Edward Caissie who is a member of the team. You can listen to the full interview and associated discussion on episode 106 of WordPress Weekly. However, one of the things that came out of that show was the need for community volunteers to help out in the reviewing process. After speaking with Edward, he accepted my request to write a guest blog post explaining how people can contribute to the theme review team.
The following was written by Edward Caissie, member of the newly established theme review team.
How do I get involved with the WordPress Theme Review Team (WPTRT)?
It’s really rather simple. Just follow these steps below.
- Subscribe to the Theme Review mailing list.
- Make sure you have a WordPress.org username.
- Send a message to the mailing list expressing your interest in helping out with Theme Reviews.
- A current WPTRT member will contact you (generally via a reply to your message). If you are ready they will assign you a ticket in the Theme trac and you will be on your way to becoming a Theme reviewer.
Of course, there is more to reviewing Themes as part of the WPTRT, the above is just how you get started.
Let’s have a quick look through these steps.
- Subscribing to the mailing list gets you involved in one of the main discussion areas of the WPTRT. It is one of the places we discuss ideas about various items that may, or may not, affect how the Theme Review guidelines are interpreted or used when reviewing a submitted Theme.
- Your WordPress username is a common focal point for all of your WordPress activities. If you are a Theme author, or a plugin developer, you already have one and this is the one that will be used on the Theme trac system. It could also be the username you log into the WordPress Support forums with although current members generally use their “developer” username.
- We need to know you are interested, although you can also log into the #wordpress-themes channel on freenode.net and chat via IRC with one of the theme reviewers as well. The mailing list is generally the more common approach.
- We assign the first few tickets to new reviewers just to help with the learning process. Once you have shown you understand the process we’ll make a few changes behind the scenes and you will be able to assign yourself your own tickets in trac and carry on reviewing Themes.
We expect that sometime during this process you have thoroughly familiarized yourself with the Theme Review guidelines as well as a few other relevant pages in the codex. Here are the links to the pages I always recommend reading:
- Theme Development – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
- Theme Unit Test – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
- Theme Review – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
NB: Just in case, I would suggest reading these pages at least once a week, although generally our intent is to not have them change very often.
Also, you should create yourself a test-bed installation; import the Theme Unit Test data (from the link above); and, install the following few very useful plugins:
- Log Deprecated Notices by Andrew Nacin aka nacin
- DeBogger and Theme-Check by Simon Prosser aka Pross
I also suggest installing a plugin that writes viewable text to ‘wp_footer()‘ for testing as well, if you do not have your own preference you are welcome to download and install my BNS Login plugin.
Now, you might be asking why would I want to join the WPTRT?
There are many reasons and many ways to get involved with the WordPress community. This one will offer you: insight into how the Theme submission process works; the opportunity to influence positive change in the Theme Review guidelines; a wealth of new ideas and code possibilities; and, interactions with some of the best and the brightest current Theme authors involved with the WordPress Themes repository.
