If you want to add a Sitemeter widget to WordPress sidebar you can use this plugin. True, you can just paste the sitemeter code into a text widget but when you are using WordPress MU that will not work. WordPress MU will not allow to paste Jave Script code into posts.
Download
Get the Sitemeter widget here (just change the .txt extension to .php).
Install
Drop the sitemeter.php file into your wp-content/plugin and activate it. If you are running WordPress MU just drop it in the wp-content/plugins-mu directory.
Usage
Add the widget to your sidebar and enter your Sitemeter counter code.
Please let me know if have any problems 🙂
You can add the number of blogs, number of users and most active blogs (with post count) on your backend of WordPress MU by using a somewhat hidden function un wpmu: get_sitestats()
Open the wp-admin/wpmu-admin.php file and just after these lines:
switch( $_GET[ ‘action’ ] ) {
default:
paste the code here: http://ringofblogs.com/global_stats.txt
This is if you are using wpmu 1.0. If you are using rc4 just open wp-admin/wpmu-admin.php and you will see the code and know what to do.
If you want to insert Flix videos in your WordPress blog, just copy from the video page the code for blogs.
Did you want to know how Google shares its AdSense income? Well, the New-York Times has the answer:
Google.com and the company’s foreign search sites contribute more to Google’s bottom line than AdSense, because for every dollar the company brings in through AdSense and other places that distribute its ads, it pays roughly 78.5 cents back to sites like Digital Point that display the ads.
Source: NYTimes
Techshout.com reports that a new, deceptive Trojan Horse program has surfaced. The program is engineered to produce fake Google ads that are formatted to look like legitimate ones. The ads are incorporated in Google AdSense. The Trojan Horse apparently downloads itself onto an unsuspecting computer through a web page and then replaces the original ads with its own set of malicious ads.
Source and more info: Techshout.com
In an “experiment” with navigation, Google has added intermediate jump pages to some links on its Google Base service.
Google Base, which allows users to upload and categorize content and links to their own sites, launched in October. At that time, all links from a search results page linked directly to the destination submitted by the user.
This week, Google began diverting traffic to an intermediate page where the user can get more information before clicking on to the destination page. Search results that display Google Base items on Froogle, Google Local and Google will continue to point directly to item URL.
“This change allows us to experiment with how you browse and search on Google Base and see related items,” wrote Bindu Reddy, Google Base product manager, in the Google Base blog. “We want to measure how this navigation changes the number of searches and other ways people will use it. In the future we plan to test a number of other navigation changes in order to optimize the Google Base experience.”
Source and more info: ClickZ News
If you didn’t hear it till now, WordPress 2.0 was released! Get it here. You can find a list of new features here.
We are still on WP 1.5.2 but not for long.
