Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress Blog’

How to Integrate WordPress and Ad-Sense Codes

Monday, November 30th, 2009

To integrate your WordPress blog with Adsense code is a bit difficult; especially if you are trying to add in the codes of Adsense without plug-in. As the WordPress does not allow you to insert your codes directly through “Source Page”, so it is very complicated for bloggers of blogspot to understand and solve down the problems of inserting the codes via plug-in into WordPress blog. Adsense is all rage these days as millions of people are making the most of this program worldwide and earning a good deal of money each month. Though to integrate a wordpress blog with Adsense code is very complex and needs proper knowledge such as  how to install plugin and how to inject the codes via Adsense plugin.

With so many Adsense plugin sometimes people get confused that which plug-in would be the best to integrate the wordpress blog with Adsense code; however Adsense deluxe is one of the most recommended way to inject the codes into the theme and the ads are blended after inserting the codes via Adsense plugin, but the plugin works efficaciously in giving a perfect look by incorporating the Adsense ads with the lengthy posts of the blog and making a blended content on the blog. Here are few instructions for those who want to integrate their WordPress blog with Adsense code using Adsense Delux.

  • First of all copy the file of Adsense deluxe to the directory of /wp-content/plugins/.
  • Open up your wp-contents from the file manager of hosting accounts.
  • Place /wp-content/plugins/ in the plugins folder.
  • Go straight to the admin panel of your wordpress blog, you will be able to see the Adsense Delux for wordpress plugin on the right hand-side of the plugins folder, activate the Adsense Delux.
  • Once you have activated the Adsense Delux now it is time to integrate your WordPress blog with Adsense code, click options and go to the setting tab of Adsense Delux and then create your new Adsense blog by pressing New Adsense Block, you may write any name of the block and then go to your Adsense account, copy the code and paste right in the box of Adsense code and click again on the Add Adsense Block.
  • Now the last step is to paste this block post in the post, click code after clicking write post and paste the block box anywhere in the post. Don’t forget to click code button from the writing options before pasting the block box and turn off the visual mode, the better way is to write the post in the visual mode and then turn it off and turn on the code mode and then paste the block box. At the result your WordPress blog will be integrated with the Adsense code and ads start to be appeared relevant to each post.

Steps to accelerate Your WordPress Blog

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

WordPress blogs have always been under the scanner for being to slow. By using some useful hacks and applying some effective tweaks and plugins it’s possible to speed up your wordpress blog.

Here are some steps outlined to speed up your wordpress blog

  1. Keep checking for WordPress updates:  It is very critical to stay updated with the latest wordpress version.  WordPress updates usually come up with a lot of performance enhancements, which could increase the load time efficiency of your blog.
  2. Remove or disable unused plugins:  Plugins are one of the most important reasons which cause the wordpress blogs to slow down. Plugins do contain heavy scripts and codes which take a lot of operating time, so it is advisable to disable and maybe even remove it if the plugin is not needed.
  3. Optimize your code:  As it’s the code which runs in the background, optimizing it can do wonders for you blog.

Some common tips to optimize your code are

  • Decrease use of white spaces
  • Use external scripts in your header.php files.
  • Use CSS shorthand convention

You can also use software’s like xDebug which can automatically optimize your PHP code

  • Optimize your database:  If traffic to your wordpress blog or website is high then your website database would have get a lot of transactions per day, this could clog or disrupt your database. Therefore it’s recommended to use your myPhpAdmin or any other mySQL tool to optimize your database on a regular basis.
  • Install a cache plugin:  Having caching system can really speed up your blog.  WP-Cache 2 and WP–Super Cache is the most efficient caching systems.  These caching systems cache wordpress blog pages and store them in form of HTML files or static files, this helps in serving future requests directly from the file without invoking and compiling the whole PHP code.