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When I get pulled into discussions for ideas about how to deal with some blog issue I usually end up doing more research, and inevitably, find new products or sites that may provide a better solution to a problem. Such is the case with the multiple WordPress blog management options that are being discussed in a thread on GayWideWebmasters.

Blogs Organizer was, and still is, a great way to manage a large blog empire. It can handle new blogs built within the program as well as “remote blogs” ie:… your wordpress blogs.

But for many of us, the price tag is a tad out of reach, the program is too complex, or, like ponyboy, you just want to hang out with the WordPress dashboard because it’s familiar. You’d think that by now, someone would have put together a plugin that lets us manage a large volume of blogs from one admin panel. Plugins have been, and continue to be, one of the best things to come from the whole WordPress Open Source phenomenon. Well the wait is over! The folks at Kish Press actually heard all of those voices clamoring for a multiple blog management solution, and have developed a plugin called Kish Multi Pro.

Simply install the Kish Multi Pro Plugin on to any ONE of your WordPress blogs and then configure it to manage all of your blogs by entering the blog urls and the admin login details and you are in full control of all your blogs. Yes, you read that right … You can now manage multiple blogs that use WordPress or WordPress MU from one administration panel! The advantage of this plugin is that you can switch between your blogs with just one click on a single page without a page reload. It does not matter if your blogs are hosted on different servers or on different domains.

You can write new posts, edit existing posts, upload images for all posts, moderate comments and use feed and search features for reading and/or blogging with in realtime. Kish Multi Pro lets you concentrate on your post creations by allowing you to be more efficient and focused. Check out the video and all of the other features this plugin offers on the KishMultiPro website. For $49.95 it sure looks like it’ll make your multiple blog management a LOT easier.

Now you can easily cloak, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link Pro tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, operating system and host. Pretty Link Pro is a dynamite plugin, created by Blair Williams, for people who want to cloak their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, increase the reach of their website by spreading their links via Twitter, on forums or with comments on other blogs.

This is just a few of the features of Pretty Link Pro:

Great things you can do with Pretty Link
•Clean up / mask affiliate links or merchant shopping cart links
•Track the effectiveness of email campaigns by embedding Pretty Links in your emails
•See how many times an email is opened by creating a “Tracking Pixel” Pretty Link and embedding it in the email
•Kickstart and Fuel the SEO on your site by posting Pretty Links from your site on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs and everywhere else on the Internet.
•Create Pretty Links for private special offers (to your email list) using a randomized slug to prevent the URL from being “guessed”
•Write custom scripts in PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP or anything else that accept parameters and use Pretty Link to make their URLs “pretty” and forward on the parameters
•Setup pretty links for your zip, pdf & binary files and track how many times they are downloaded
•Use to track results of your PPC campaigns by setting your ads to go to Pretty Links
•Track Everything!

I know I’ll be adding this to one of my affiliate blogs and testing it out asap!

Note from the developer, Blair Williams: If you have the free version of Pretty Link, please be aware that it can no longer cloak and track links, as WordPress has decided to disallow link cloaking in any plugin offered free via wordpress.org. I had to create a Pretty Link Lite that doesn’t include cloaking and a few other options. You can, however, regain all of the features outlined (in this post) with Pretty Link Pro.

Just about every sponsor/site post I do lately contains a video, so it’s no surprise that I take an immediate interest in new video plugins. From Kaltura.org, an outsourcing video community, comes this new video plugin for WordPress: All In One Video Pack. This isn’t just another video embed tool – as it supposedly includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more…  And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.

All in One Video Pack Plugin Highlights:

Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to your blog post;

Edit and remix videos using Kaltura’s online full-featured video editor;

Easily import all rich media (video, audio, pictures…) from other sites and social networks, such as MySpace, Flickr, CCMixter, Jamendo, New York Public Library, any URL on the web etc.;

Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos;

Manage and track interactive videos through the management console;

Sidebar widget displaying thumbnails of recent videos and video comments

Complete administrative capabilities. You decide who can add and edit each video;

Supports more than 150 video, audio and image file formats and codecs

Choose your preferred video player style for each player you embed

Custom sizing of the video player

Update thumbnail of video by selecting frame from video

Advanced sharing options for videos

Sidebar widget showing all recent videos posted and video comments.

Easy installation that takes just 4 steps and a few minutes.

Widescreen support – you can now upload widescreen videos into a 16:9 player

New cool video player designs to choose from

Choose between uploading a single media file or creating a mix with more than one file

Bug fixing and maintenance

You can showcase your blog,  and see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support at their forum: All In One Video Pack Forum

Download the Plugin, or just hit the Add New under Plugins and have WordPress install it for you.

As often happens, I was looking for something else entirely when I came across a relatively new plugin for WordPress (released Oct. 2008) … a LINK DIRECTORY PLUGIN! I kid you not! I have so been hoping someone would code a decent directory plugin and it looks like my prayers have finally been answered.

WordPress Link Directory is a link directory plugin from Sean Bluestone, and made for WordPress. It allows you to create a directory of links and you can even allow other webmasters to add their link to your site. The plugin can check for reciprocal links and even check the Pagerank of the other site. The WordPress directory plugin will then accept or refuse the link based on criteria you specify.

The main features are:

• Automatically checks for reciprocal links on pages specified by Pagerank.
• Displays the Pagerank of all sites in the directory.
• Option to display more detailed information on each link.
• Available in several languages.
• Option to notify the admin when a new link is submitted.
• Integrates seemlessly with WordPress and adopts whichever theme you’re using.

You can view a DEMO here, and DOWNLOAD the directory plugin here. Sean also offers a pro version with additional features, but requires you to fill out a short survery that he gets a little commission off of before unlocking the pro version for a free download. Visit Sean Bluestone’s site for more information on the pro version.

If you’re having problems trying to determine which plugins are compatible with whatever version of WordPress you’re currently using, this Plugin Compatability page should help eliminate some of the guess work.

You may not know this but there is a serious flaw in WordPress that has existed since its earliest versions which is still not resolved, even in the latest version release of WordPress.

Did you know that by using the WordPress blog software you might get tagged as being a Ping Spammer even though it’s not your fault? It sounds crazy but it’s actually true.  You are unintentionally “over pinging” your wordpress ping sites every time you edit any published post.

But there’s a great solution to this potential problem with the Post Schedule Ping Optimizer plugin you can pick up here for free: Download Maxblog Press Ping Optimizer 

And an additional sweet feature to this post schedule ping optimizer is that it doesn’t ping a post that has been timestamped UNTIL IT PUBLISHES. Right now if you went and wrote a post, timestamp it for a future publish date and time and then hit publish, wordpress pings your ping site list NOW… even though the post isn’t live yet!

Great plugin Pawan, and Thanks!

You may be wondering why I’m doing posts telling you about various sponsor promotions. The answer is simple: money, and more of it.

If you know that an affiliate sponsor you promote is running a higher payout on say Friday, then on the day that you’re sitting and writing up your blog posts for the week you should be time stamping a couple of posts for sites from that affiliate sponsor (or the site that gets you the extra bling) that will appear THE DAY BEFORE AND THE DAY OF the increased payout promotion!

Here’s a few tips to help you in keeping track of, and utilizing, sponsor promotions:

1. When you signup to promote a sponsor, always check the box that lets them send you their affiliate newsletter. You’ll usually get notices on promotions and contests, new site releases, plus text, pics, links, etc. of new models and galleries or other promo tools that are available. (Note: You may need to tell your email program to allow those emails to come through, otherwise you’ll be wading through your spam to find them.)

2. Keep a calendar by the computer that has blocks big enough that you can write in when a sponsor promotion is happening. Or buy one of those calendar wipe off boards to use. I got a nice one from Target for under $10 and I love it, and I’m sure places like Office Max or Staples would carry them as well.

3. If you can create folders in your email program, save emails that have material you can use to blog with for that coming week to a folder for that week. (IE: create a folder for each week of the month, and move an email with content/dated info you can use to it.) That way when you’re ready to write your blog posts, you can quickly access current promotional information (I LOVE copy/paste!), links, text, pics and so on. Once you’re done using the email contents of a particular sponsor, just delete it.

4. If you use WordPress, install the Photopress plugin so you can easily import photos from free hosted galleries into your posts. (I’m talking about the Photopress option where you can paste in a sponsor coded gallery url, and it fetches and shows you the images and you select which ones to use. Another bonus is that photopress automatically attaches the url you pasted in onto the image, saving you having to link it up and add your ID code.) Or, if your sponsor sends you a zip of content, unpack it and use the first part of Photopress to browse for it on your harddrive and insert it into your posts that way. Also, take the time to configure Photopress to display the images the way YOU want them to appear, and in the size(s) you want used for thumbs and large images.

Two notes about Photopress: I do NOT see the button that operates it when using the VISUAL mode, I only see it when using CODE VIEW when writing my post.  And secondly: if you get out of memory errors or some other error when you try to USE the plugin, chances are you need to ask your host to INCREASE the place where it says 8MB memory to 32MB memory on the php.ini  They’ll know what to do and that should clear up the problem.

5. And last but not least, dedicate ten or fifteen minutes of your morning while you’re sipping your coffee to quickly read through two or three adult webmaster forums or adult industry boards (besides this blog of course!). That way you’ll find out about other adult affiliate sponsors who are running specials, or launching a site that fits your blog niche.

Here’s to hearing the k-ching of more bling hitting YOUR bank account!