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How to add a dynamic sidebar in WordPress?

Do you ever wonder that you have one sidebar, but you want to display widgets in other places, and they don’t come in with manual codes that you can enter in the page and avoid using the widgets. Well there are some widgets that doesn’t have the manual tags. The solution to those is to add more than one dynamic sidebar in wordpress and display them where you want. I like this because I can manage everything from my wordpress admin panel and have everything where I want on the template. Kill two birds with one stone.

I have made a detailed video, which I will recommend you to watch because that will make the steps much more understandable, but I think you need to visit here to actually get the codes because it might not be as clear in the video.

First of all, Open your functions.php which is located in the themes folder.

Follow the rest of the tutorial in the full post.



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Cancelling Account on Myspace

Myspace, a social networking phenomenon is now worst than spamwares about cancelling service. It is ranked #5 in Alexa and so many people use it, but I don’t know why. Let me tell you how I used it. When I got in the web industry, my sole goal was to make money. I will do it any way I could. I got a script that will add me to these 75 myspace trains, and people will add me from there. I had tons of thousands of friends and I made a chunk of money by sending out bulletins periodically about different websites. You can say I was averaging about than $40 a day by posting bulletins which equals $1200 a month. Damn for a 13 year old that was sweet. But then i got tired of it, and I left that business and moved on toward proxies. Thats another story.

But after almost 3 years I finally opened my account and decided to delete it. It took me 6 confirmation screens to delete the damn thing.

First step in the account setup page.

Myspace Step 1

Second confirmation ok thats understandable because I can accidently click the cancel link

Myspace Step 2

This is taking it to an extreme because this should’ve been asked already in the second step.

Myspace Step 3

Damn, Now I must follow the email. WTF? I dont think they need to confirm it this many times. This should’ve already been done at the second step. Email dispatched.

Myspace Step 4

Alright Now they are on my nerves. If i click the damn cancel link then cancel my F**king account !!!

Myspace Step 5

O Hell No, Don’t tell me it is just in the que and will take another 48 hours. After all those steps I want it to be done now.

Myspace Step 6

Thinking about making a myspace account. Think again. Reason why I stopped because I would get an email from them. Your friend’s Birthday Notifier, and I will go check instantly and there is nothing there. They were just spamming to get me to visit myspace.

I am just too frustrated about these people.



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Smart way to display Affiliate Ads

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Before I go on with this post, I would like to say I hope everyone who celebrates Easter had a nice Easter. My easter turned out to be my make up day where I catched up on my sleep as I slept about 12 hours.

Lets go back to the topic. How many of you have affiliate ads on your websites. I know I see alot of the people have affiliate ads on their blogs and their websites. Alot of bloggers consider that smart way to display the ads is by hiding the url completely, or encrypting the url so the user doesn’t see that the link is an affiliate link.

Alot of people find a better solution to this problem and that is by just adding JavaScript ads. If you use Commision Junction, Azoogle Ads , or many others… you will see that there is an option to display link through Javascripts. Alot of people tend to choose that option why because it says that it helps them keep a better track of you. I dont know how many can prove that, but there is certainly disadvantages to that and that is why I believe that is not the smart way to go.

First of all, we all know that JavaScripts are not supported in alot of computers because the user never bothered to install it. Second, JavaScripts increase the loading time of your website, and lastly it can really screw up your website in different browsers. Therefore I believe that users should use the html code method the affiliate ads have. Why do I prefer that? Because you have full control over the ad that you are displaying as in you can change the image if you like. You can use the url with a text rather than with an Image.

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Last night in a sight

Have you heard of improvisational theatre? Usually called improv. Basically you do not rehearse in this type of shows. It is all made up at spot. Audience often picks the subject of the scene and the actors just make it up right at spot and it continues. Usually they are comedy. Well at University of Florida, there is a group called Theatre Striking Force (TSF). I am not enrolled in it, but my roommate likes this so he is taking the unenrolled section, and he is a part of a group. I went once to support American Cancer Society watch the show and donated.

Today, There was another show for the month of March called “Mar Mayhem”, and my roommate was going, so I went along. I said well why not take a camera and take some pictures. First of all It went very well. It was very funny, and I think if you ever get a chance to watch improv shows then definately watch them because they are a whole new experience.

There were two shows, and We didn’t make the first one, but watched the entire second show. Total of three groups performed. Ho Prov, Aracka, Mad Cowford (Special guests from Jacksonville). My favorite was Aracka a group of five guys and they were pretty hillarious.

The show started up with Ho Prov, where four ladies from the group were dressed like completely Hos (Whores), and they performed a hillarious show, a bit too revealing but the show itself was funny.

They were playing why this one chick was late, so she was sent out the room, and the host said there was a guy needed to escort her out. All the sudden you see this guy from the audience jumped over the seat and he is on the floor and running to escort her out. Which I thought was funny, and I guess the rest of guys were thinking why didn’t I escorted her out.

So the next time they asked for a Lap Dance contest and this other guy tried to be as funny as the first one and jumped over the seat and two ran down… and sat on the chair. The girls, Hoes, came up and the host went this is a bit different guys. You guys stand and the girls sit because you will be the one giving the lap dance, and I had a great laugh. I made a video to show you guys.



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Managing your advertisers

Now you might be thinking why am I posting this in the reviews section. Well because I am about to review a product which I was not paid to use, but I paid to use and it impressed me so much that I am writing this review.

I remember about 10 months ago, when I was very active in the directory industry. I was running a successful directory and making good profit. All the marketing strategies I was using was working and my traffic was crazy high. Alexa around 30k. I had a Personal Message (PM) on phpLD Forum. This guy was no other but the owner of what we know to be OIOPublisher. At that time, I was not that much into blogging per say. All I had was a blog in my directory where I posted tutorials. He said, Syed, I see your marketing strategies and you are doing a good job. I was referred to you by ***** and he said that I should ask you how to promote my new product and if you would help me.

I agreed and helped him out. I gave him a link on my blog in exchange from a link from his site. After a while he said thanks for the help and we both moved our own separate directions. Recently, I was looking for something better to manage my blog ads because Now that I am into serious blogging. I popped open this site OIO Publisher. Now how did I get across this site. I saw multiple blog owners John Cow, Alan at Affiliate Confessions, and so many others have the same type of payment page. I knew it would be a plugin and when i looked in the url I saw OIOpub and I knew it than which site it was from.

This is how the form looks like

Live Preview on Balkhis.

I went back to the site, I was already the member there. I bought myself a license. Yeah for only $37 I was able to get the license for unlimited domains. That I think is a pretty sweet deal. They allow me to submit my listing into their marketplace, so if anyone wants to advertise at Balkhis, they can find me there as well as on my website. The best part is that I dont have to pay any fees. Like how I would be paying adtoll their share if I put my site up for ads there, and I didn’t like adtolls terms that much. This plugin gives me full freedom.

I installed it in my wordpress and saw everything is so flexible. It can be customized in any ways you want. I contacted Simon, the owner of OIOPublisher… He remembered me ofcourse :p I am a type of person if you know you won’t forget me. I asked him some questions I had about the product and he answered them promptly. I gave him my positive review as well.

Just a token of appreciation I am writing this post because that plugin is just the best. Take out the middle man give you the freedom. Heck I think you should go and buy it now if you are into serious blogging.

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OIO Publisher

This plugin is well recommended by me and many other famous bloggers. You can see their review here.



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