AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It was developed for my own use after an exhaustive search for a similar tool turned up nothing adequate. Have a look at the following features.

Features:

• Use simple HTML comments for embedding AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher Network ads in a WordPress post
• Choose from any number of ad styles and format on a post-by-post basis
• Globally change ad styles
• Selectively disable display of individual ad styles or all ads
• Integrated AdSense Preview tool (a sandbox) for seeing what ads will appear on a given page. (Stand-alone AdSense SandBox Tool also available)
• All settings configured through WordPress Options interface (no knowledge of plugins or PHP required)
• Easily test different ad formats and color styles across (all, or) a range of blog posts.
• (Optionally) Apply CSS formatting to the AdSense code.
• Does not display live ads when editing a page, instead placeholders are shown.
• Ads are EXCLUDED from RSS feeds — even if you have full-text feeds enabled. (new in v0.3)
• Preview your ad blocks from the AdSense-Deluxe options page (in case you forget what the ad style looks like), and ads can be clicked without penalty since they use a test account.
• Support for wp-tiger-admin plugin’s CSS in post/page editor QuickTags

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 1.5+
Source: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/07/26/adsense-deluxe…

The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open source version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products. Listed below is a comprehensive list of new features that you will find in Movable Type 4.0.

Understanding Your Blogs Better

• A completely reinvented user interface
• Built in reports on blog activity
• Integrated asset manager for uploading, reusing, and finding files like photos, audio, and video
• Blog-style presentation of your recent content is easy to skim and lets you know how your blogs are doing
• Customize MT’s entire user interface using the same MT template language that publishes your blog
• A customizable dashboard to display just the information you find valuable
• Kick-ass documentation — over 100 printed pages’ worth, with an exclusive book-length Business Blogging Guide offering details on exactly how to help your company communicate with blogs
• Powerful listing screens with quick keyboard access keys and the ability to work with multiple selections of entries, comments, or authors
• Quick Filters on every listing screen let you jump to the most-frequently-accessed views of your information

Better Publishing

• Smarter defaults throughout the system, offering more power with fewer configuration settings than MT 3.0
• A powerful and simple re-sizable WYSIWYG Editor, with automatic saving of drafts of entries and templates — never lose a half-written post again
• Built-in cross-blog aggregation: Publish pages that include data from some, all, or just one of your blogs
• The world’s smartest blog template language, with boolean logic for choosing which content to display. (”Show me posts by ‘Jane’ in the category ‘food’ with tags ‘meat NOT fish’.”)
• Live preview shows you your entry before you publish, with full fidelity to your live blog
• Smart controls like auto-complete for tags, a calendar selector for scheduling future-dated entries, and a completely redone UI for selecting and creating categories
• Support for publishing standalone pages that automatically use blog templates and designs
• Better plain-text entry with built-in support for Markdown and Textile, and conversion of MS Word “smart” quotes to HTML entities
• Even more search-engine-friendly with customizable URLs per entry, per-template, or per-page
• A simple IDE for templates, with color highlighting for editing tags and smart error reporting for template typos
• Paginated archives — easily walk your users through posts by date or author or category

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.movabletype.org

XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though started as a portal system, XOOPS is in fact striving steadily on the track of Content Management System. It can serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites.

A lite XOOPS can be used as a personal weblog or journal. For this purpose, you can do a standard install, and use its News module only. For a medium site, you can use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links etc to form a community to interact with your members and visitors. For a large site as an enterprise one, you can develop your own modules such as eShop, and use XOOP’s uniform user management system to seamlessly integrate your modules with the whole system.

Key features of XOOPS

- Database-driven
XOOPS uses a relational database (currently MySQL) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.

- Fully Modularized
Modules can be installed/uninstalled/ativated/deactivated with a click using the XOOPS module administration system.

- Personalization
Registered users can edit their profiles, select site themes, upload custom avatars, and much more!

- User Management
The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.

- Supported World-wide
XOOPS was created and is maintained by a team of several hard-working volunteers working from all over the world. The XOOPS community has more than dozen official support sites around the world for support of non-English speaking users.

- Multi-byte Language Support
Fully supports multi-byte languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc.

- Versatile Group Permissions System
Powerful and user-friendly permissions system which enables administrators to set permissions by group.

- Theme-based skinnable interface
XOOPS is driven by a powerful theme system. Both admins and users can change the look of the entire web site with just a click of a mouse. There are also over 60 themes available for download!

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.xoops.org

Adsense is one of the most common revenue generators for blogs and websites. Usually you can drastically improve your click-through rate and overall earnings by positioning the ads wisely, by improving the content targeting or by optimizing the ad units directly. Below DailyBlogTips covers the point on how to optimize the Adsense units with 8 simple tips.

View the full article on 8 Tips to Optimize Adsense Units.

Source: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/8-tips-to-optimize-adsense-units/

Try the Blog Juice Calculator which gives your blog a ranking on how much ‘blog juice’ it has in comparison to other blogs in your niche. They measure your blog juice by looking at Bloglines subscribers, Alexa ranking, Technorati ranking and Incoming links from Technorati.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.text-link-ads.com/blog_juice/

By using ReviewMe, you get paid to review products and services on your site. You control what you review. People ignore ads nowadays. In much the same way that banner blindness set in, many publishers have noticed their contextual ad click through rates and earnings drop over time. Because the reviews are not formatted to look like ads, publishers are able to deliver more attention and value than through advertising via any other marketing channel.

Due to a wide scope of interest many ad systems show exceptionally generic ads that are irrelevant and annoying, hurting the publisher’s ability to monetize the attention asset they have built. writers review what they find interesting. If the writer finds something interesting the odds are it is going to be well in tune with what readers of that channel like.

Type: Pay Per Post
Source: http://www.reviewme.com

ShoeMoney Media Group entered the ring tone market early, captured traffic and has monetized it. Finding angles and exploiting them for profit is a key aspect of SMG. Maximum and diverse revenue streams are built on fairly narrow marketing concepts that are then diversified. This is what Jeremy Schoemaker calls, “The Coke Theory. If you are already making Coke then you can make Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, etc and turn a profit on those as well. A company can achieve growth through small degrees of separation bet
ween sites, maximizing diversity within a small industry.

From the beginning of SMG, Schoemaker focused on the aspects of marketing that were second nature to him. He built his sites on those natural marketing principles while running the backend. Web design was a secondary skill, so he focused on the marketing of the sites, which then built revenue. Later he would invest in a professionally done design. Schoemaker continues to focus on existing sites and expand their income potential by building a network of sites centered on a central theme. Again, the “Coke Theory.

You will find lots of excellent marketing tips from ShoeMoney. You can see that ShoeMoney has attracted over 13000 subscribers. I am sure you can gain a lot form reading ShoeMoney.

Source: http://www.shoemoney.com/

BloggingPro Wordpress Theme is a three column theme which is WordPress 2.1 ready and should work just fine in WordPress 2.0.x. It has been tested on a variety of browsers. It comes in two versions, one with the big footer like Blogging Pro, that gives information on recent posts, recent comments and most commented stories, and one without the big footer, and thus no need for any plugins at all.

For the plugin required version, you can download the separated zip file that contains the three plugins needed. All three are from the talented Nick Momrik of MtDewVirus.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2007/03/21/blogging-pros…

It’s called “Numberlay” and besides downloading the actual theme you can also download the source file. Some things you should know about this theme:

License

• You may not resell this theme
• A link back to stelianfirez.com must be kept in the footer
• You can use the theme in any kind of project, personal or commercial
• You can modify it as you like

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.2 Supported
Source: http://postedby.stelianfirez.com/2007/07/06/wordpress…

Technically Exec-PHP executes code inside of <?php ?> tags by just wrapping your whole text into ?> <?php tags and hand it over to the PHP eval() function. By that no parsing of your code needs to be done by the plugin itself. Although the plugin adds some security features, it is not recommended to use the plugin in WordPress installations with untrusted users.

With Exec-PHP you can execute PHP code in the excerpt and the content portion of your posts and pages (in the following called articles) as also as in text widgets. To execute code, just type in the PHP code as you usually would.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/