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Add a live webcam broadcast to your Wordpress sidebar, or to any blog for that matter, with this free webcam broadcaster from AnyWebCam.com. ANYwebcam.com LIVE! lets your friends see your real time webcam broadcast on your Wordpress blog page. To get started simply join ANYwebcam.com for FREE and download the Webcam broadcaster. You will then be presented with the code to place in your Wordpress blog… it’s that simple!

The broadcaster also works on quite a few of the social websites including Friendster, MySpace, HI5, Blogger, Xanga and more. Visit AnyWebCam.com to open your free account.

As most of you probably already know, the release of Wordpress 2.7 has been delayed. There is a 2.6.5 version available that addresses some security issues. And please take care when searching for WordPress downloads so that you do not end up on a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the WordPress site but isn’t.

This is just the first of what could be a run on fake sites that take advantage of your misspellings and spoofs the official WordPress site. Pay close attention to what site URL you are actually on after clicking any links, or type out manually http://www.wordpress.org/ and double check the URL before downloading anything from the official WordPress sites.

If you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is 2.6.5. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog.

Automattic is looking at ways to keep users informed and warned about these blog hack attempts, but paying attention to details is your best defense. Just check first and know what you are downloading, and from where, before risking your blog.

After I setup a new wordpress blog, one of the first things I make sure to do is to setup what they call “pretty permalinks”. Why use them? Because they help with how your links display which can affect your blog’s overall search engine optimization techniques.

When you first install WordPress, the permalinks default to something that looks like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/?p=123

But we want to have the links look like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/wordpress/create-pretty-permalinks

So how do you do this?

1. Go to your site via FTP and temporarily chmod your .htaccess to 777. Now login to your Admin panel and activate pretty-permalinks by clicking on Settings and then Permalinks. Now select “custom structure” and type: /%category%/%postname%/

Click “Save Changes”

You’ll get a message back saying your permalink structure has been updated. If you don’t get that message, you: 1. don’t have an .htaccess page and/or 2. you didn’t chmod it to 777

After a successful update of the permalink structure, return to the domain via ftp and chmod the .htaccess back to 644. Congratulations! You’re all done with creating pretty permalinks!

If you want to know more, or have to do some troubleshooting, you can read more about the Permalinks here: Using Wordpress Permalinks

Show off your live traffic with Feedjit widgets. The widgets are all free and you don’t need to register to get them for your blog or website. You’ll find that the widgets are also extremely lightweight and won’t slow your site down.

If you’re a Blogger or Typepad user you can install any of the widgets with one click. If you use a different platform or if you’re installing Feedjit in a website, then simply cut and paste the script they provide into your blog template or website HTML. Feedjit will appear in the position you paste the script.

Feedjit’s mission is to provide high performance real-time widgets for the blogging community that are free and easy to use. FEEDJIT is founded by two serial entrepreneurs whose previous businesses include a search engine and a blogging platform.

Four types of FEEDJIT widgets are currently available for immediate download.

1.  Feedjit’s live traffic feed shows statistics on your website in real-time. It shows:

• Which city and country your visitors are in
• Which website they arrived from, if any
• Which page they visited on your website
• Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any

2.  Feedjit’s live traffic map shows the geographic locations of the last 100 visitors to your blog or website on a small map. If you move your mouse over any point on the map the city and country for that visitor will be displayed.

3.  Feedjit’s Recommended Reading Widget suggests other pages on your Blog or Website that may interest your readers. It does this using a sophisticated algorithm called Collaborative Filtering.

For example, a visitor to your blog may view one of your blog entries about coral reefs. Feedjit knows that 10 other visitors to your blog who liked this blog entry visited 2 other entries you wrote about coral reefs. So it suggests these 2 pages to your new visitor.

4.  Page Popularity. This widget shows the most popular pages on your blog or website by analyzing your recent traffic patterns. It constantly updates as new visitors arrive on your website and maintains an up to date list of popular pages. This widget does not require a minimum amount of traffic for you to use it. Simply install it and you’re all set.

This widget draws new visitors into your blog or website by showing off your best content. If you have pages with a high bounce rate, displaying your most popular content in a prominent position can help draw new visitors into your website and grow your regular reader base.

Click HERE for downloads and more information on where these FEEDJIT widgets will and will not work.

Now this neat little tool probably isn’t one you’ll want for blogs where you’re selling products/sites to surfers, but it is a nice one to add to a blog like this one that offers up resources, tutorials, information, etc to other bloggers. It’s a plugin that displays your plugins. It shows what you have active, and inactive, on that particular blog, and it will automatically update the page as you delete, deactivate, or add more plugins to your blog.

I know I’m often checking the view source on some blogs to try and figure out how something is being handled that isn’t a part of the normal wordpress installation. If a plugins in use page were available, it’d sure save me some detective work! I like the idea of being able to display the plugins that I use on a page for my readers, it is just one more way of providing more blogging information for you to check out and possibly make use of.

So take a look at what I’m using, and pick up a few plugins that you might like to try out on your own blogs.

I was surfing the net and as usual, one link led to another, and I came across a really nice blog design that is just perfect for any of you who are about to setup a gossip and/or celebrity type blog.

Gossip City was created by Design Disease, and while it isn’t specific to the Adult Blogging world, it certainly fits a celebrity niche.

Gossip City Wordpress Theme

 You can demo the theme, download the zip file, and read the release notes here: Gossip City Theme.

As many of you probably already know, WordPress 2.7 is currently in development with a projected release date set for November, 2008. The release features a work-in-progress left-hand navigation column. There is a survey online that is intended to give WordPress users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped.

The proposed menu function is based on sections with submenus, and you can collapse and expand menu sections without leaving your current screen. The image on the left below shows all menu sections collapsed, while the image on the right shows the Content section expanded.

In this survey they are primarily interested in what the top-level categories should be, what they should be called and which submenu items each should contain. They’ll show you a couple of different options and ask you which one you think is the best.

For those of you who have suggestions for labels, link order, etc., you will have the option of providing specific feedback in these areas after you’ve chosen one of the primary options.

Click Here to participate in the Wordpress 2.7 Navigation Groupings Survey

It seems that no matter what it is you want to have happen with your Wordpress program, you can find a plugin or code generator that will make the job easier and faster than you figuring out the coding on your own.  What started the hunt for a way a non-code savvy blogger could add RSS was a request from a client of mine wanting to know if he could create Wordpress PAGES that would display a specific feed per page. The idea being that he wants all of his hand written posts as the regular front page of postings, and then have individual pages that bring in specific sponsor hosted feeds using his affiliate code… that updates automatically. IE: A page for Hunkmoney RSS Feeds, another page for Fantasy Girl Revenue Feeds, and so on.

Now if my client were more code savvy, I’m sure he’d sit down and figure this all out on his own, but he isn’t. And using the RSS Widget feature in the latest versions of Wordpress is an “almost” solution. But he doesn’t just want a few rss feed titles on the sidebar. So after spending an hour or so with google and refining my search terms a few times, I found this site: Feed Commander. Feed Commander has a delightfully FREE RSS code generator! You input the RSS URL you want to use, define the display properties, preview your creation, and if you’re happy with it, generate the particular code you need for your website: javascript, asp, php, etc.

Now all my client has to do is create a new PAGE in the admin area, go to code view, and paste in the code and save/publish it, and he should be good to go.

I do have to caution you on over using this fun RSS tool from Feed Commander, as bringing in a lot of RSS content from other sites can be a not so good thing from an SEO standpoint. Use it in moderation, as a variation of ways to offer up quality content to your readers. Try to monitor the actual hits those pages receive vs your upsells for a month or more. Then decide if the feature is actually a benefit or a burden to your blog offerings. You may find that just using the simple sidebar RSS widget to display a few post titles gets a better click through ratio. But by all means, experiment and have fun!

Here’s a truly wonderful addition to the Wordpress family of plugins: a Theme Authenticity Checker (or TAC for short). If you want to be sure that malicious code hasn’t been added to a Wordpress theme you’re thinking of using, TAC can show you if, and where, any suspect code is located within that theme.

The developers of TAC at Builtbackwards.com discuss why they decided to code this valuable plugin:

TAC got its start when we repeatedly found obfuscated malicious code in free WordPress themes available throughout the web. A quick way to scan a theme for undesirable code was needed, so we put together this plugin.

After Googling and exploring on our own we came upon the article by Derek from 5ThirtyOne regarding this very subject. The deal is that many 3rd party websites are providing free WordPress themes with encoded script slipped in - some even going as far as to claim that decoding the gibberish constitutes breaking copyright law. The encoded script may contain a variety of undesirable payloads, such as promoting third party sites or even hijack attempts.

Currently, TAC searches the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code. If such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. As of v1.3 TAC also searches for and displays static links.

Here’s a screenshot of the TAC plugin in action:

Just because the code is there doesn’t mean it’s not supposed to be or even qualifies as a threat, but most theme authors don’t include code outside of the WordPress scope and have no reason to obfuscate the code they make freely available to the web. We recommend contacting the theme author with the code that the script finds, as well as where you downloaded the theme. But the real value of this Plugin is that you can quickly determine what and where code needs to be cleaned up.

What if I find something amiss in the code or links?

The developers say to contact the theme’s original author to double check if that section of code is supposed to be in the theme in the first place - chances are it shouldn’t be there as there isn’t a logical reason to have base64 encoding in a theme. Static Links aren’t necessarily bad, TAC just lists them so you can see where your theme is linking to.

If something is malicious or simply unwanted, TAC tells you what file to edit, then you can just click on the file path to be taken straight to the WordPress Theme Editor. Just be sure you have chmoded your theme files to be writable (777 usually) in order to do your edits within the Wordpress Admin panel.

Click here to read more about the Theme Authenticity Checker and to download it for free.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I still haven’t upgraded all of my blogs to 2.6 … and version 2.7 is due to be available for download in November, 2008! If you want to grab an early peek at what Wordpress 2.7 may, or may not, have for new features, check out this post at WeblogToolsCollection. The post goes into considerable depth about what this new release will look like (there are numerous screenshots) and describes how it will handle various Wordpress functions.