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Now this is a pretty neat plugin:

Wordbook allows you to send your wordpress blog posts directly to your Facebook mini feed without any cut and paste nastyness - fantatsic if you tend to used wordpress as a blog and Facebook for networking rather than the other way round

You can get the plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/

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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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Wordpress 2.3 has been released and I can already see the improvements as I'm writing this post - nice job guys!

Among other things the major changes are:

• Tagging support - handy
• Wordpress and plugin update notification
• Full Version of TinyMCE Editor (At last!)
• Canonical urls
• Pending review option for multi user blogs
• Speed enhancements
• And over 351 issues from the bug tracker closed

If you don't use wordpress already then why not give it a go - it's already great and it's getting better all the time!

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Recently I wanted to change the theme I use on my personal blog to the following: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/01/22/digg-3-columns-wordpress-theme/ as the current one I was using was pretty awful (to say the least) and this was a lot better

I liked this theme but unfortunately it lacked one thing (as do a lot of other themes I've used) - an auto generating set of page menu tabs at the top. The default theme just had a link to the home and about pages, so I added this in and it now works exactly the way I wanted it to. I've pasted the code below should you wish to do something similar.

This mod basically creates a list of all the parent pages along the top (which are rendered as tabs due to the css), and then when a link of a parent page is clicked, it displays the home tab, the tab for the parent page and then the list of tabs for the sub pages of that parent page.

On my site so far I only have one level of sub pages below the parent, but I believe this should work for any hierarchy of sub-sub pages - if you use this code and it does please post a comment to let me know.

Also this is a bit rough - the next time I use it I will probably clean it up a bit, but I know it works for now. If you'd like to provide me with a cleaner version before I have chance to work on it please feel free to drop me a line, and if it works I'll also post it here.

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