Archive for November, 2007

Make Money With WordPress And Matched.co.uk

7Chris • 21st Nov 2007 • PHP, Products, Wordpress • , , , , , , , ,

Everybody out there at the moment is trying to make money from their blog in one way or another, and one great way I found recently was via matched.co.uk, who will pay you up to £75 per month just for putting their ads on your sites.

This is great, but the way they do it is by allocating you one ad per page, up to 5 pages per site which can be a problem for wordpress users:

  1. Because the wordpress editor interferes with the ad code if it's pasted into a post
  2. Because if you were to dump all the ads in to your sidebar so they appear on all pages they'd look a mess

To get around this, I have written a neat little ad rotator plugin / sidebar widget for matched ads which will display each ad correctly in the sidebar of each page you have an ad allocated to.

You can see this in action by visiting the following links:
http://www.coderchris.com/
http://www.coderchris.com/2007/09/21/making-flash-sites-easy/
http://www.coderchris.com/2007/09/19/installing-red5-open-source-flash-media-server-on-centos-42/

A screen shot of the interface is here:
http://www.christopher-dean.co.uk/images/main.php?g2_itemId=1980

If you too would like to make money from matched.co.uk easily with wordpress, then you can buy my ad rotator via paypal for just £10 by clicking this button:

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JW Media Player – A Godsend For Flash Streaming

13Chris • 18th Nov 2007 • Flash, JavaScript, Streaming, Red5, Streaming • , , , , , , , , ,

So, you want or need to stream multimedia content from your website; you don't have time or money to figure out or pay someone to figure out how to do what you need; and you need it to look reasonably pro.

Where do you go?

Well I'll tell you: You go here: http://www.jeroenwijering.com and download JW Media Player

 It's a fantastic, versatile free piece of software you can just plug into any website and use to start streaming content right away!

The best thing however, is that it works really well alongside the Red 5 streaming flash server via the oflaDemo app, and as such completes the package of a free streaming flash solution that looks good and performs well.

Just remember, when following the examples of how to get it to work with at least true streams (i.e. not progressive downloads) give the mediaplayer.swf an absolute url ;)

If anybody needs help getting this to work with Red 5 feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment and I'll help you out :)