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Great New Ad Plugin for WordPress
Posted by: | CommentsYou may notice a new stripe running across the top of this site. That is a new plugin for wordpress called "Stripe Ad" – You can get it at MAXBLOGPRESS for free.
A cool “stripe” appears at the very top of your blog, where you can place text ads. The ad itself is simple, easy to use, and you can have multiple ads rotating according to your needs. As WordPress Plugins goes, Stripe Ad seems to be a pretty well designed and easy to deal with plugin. There are tons of options to control the look and feel of your ads. Installation is also very simple – just download the Plugin, unzip, upload to your WordPress Plugins folder and activate. All the Plugin controls will be located in the WordPress Options section under MBP Stripe Ad.
There is alot you can control as well, such as the size and colors of the ads, how often they are displayed and more. I really like the fact you can rotate ads.
You can get the plugin at MAXBLOGPRESS for free.
John Chow is already selling ads for $250 a month in this space. He already has 4 sold. $1000 a month in new income for a tiny piece of real estate on your blog. Not bad huh? I need to start selling ad space here, although I would prefer to get my readership up a bit first.
MaxBlogPress has other plugins available as well such as the MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup, BlogRush Click Maximizer and the Different Posts Per Page plugins.
Take a look.
WordPress 2.3.2 has been released
Posted by: | CommentsWordPress 2.3.2 has been released and includes a number of changes including one security fix, here is a list of most of the changes in detail:
- Performance improvements for post sanitization when raw content is required (#5325).
- Changes to
is_admin()to ensure that it is only true for admin pages thereby protecting against exposing draft posts. (#5487). - Suppression of database errors unless WP_DEBUG is true (#5473).
- Check for valid database connection information during install and display and error if the install fails due to database rights (#5495).
- Support for a custom database down page to be displayed on database connection errors (#5500).
- Changes to make sure we are more selective in what we make clickable, this introduces different rules for different uri types ([6450]).
- Changes to
wp-mail.phpto escape the error messages when displaying them to avoid a possible XSS attack (#5484). - Changes to ensure that the post password is only exposed by the xmlrpc method
metaWeblog.getRecentPoststo users with rights to edit a post (#5535). - Changes to the information exposed the
wp.getAuthorsxmlrpc method to reduce the information exposed and add a capabilites check (#5534). - Addition of extra capabilites checks to xmlrpc methods ([6504]).
- Addition of extra capabilites checks to APP server ([6508]).
- Changes to
validate_file()to improve its traversal attempt detection when running on windows ([6521]).
For a complete list of all the changes you can read this section of the branches/2.3 log.