I’m going to add a Google Adwords referral unit in my template. The result will be visible on the top right, in the header. Whenever someone purchases adwords services through this link, I will receive $20 in my Adsense account. It’s not much, but it’s worth having up there and I like to remind my […]

I’m going to add a list of 15 previous posts in the sidebar. I tried using the previous posts plugin, but I kept getting syntax errors. So what I did instead was just added the following lines to my sidebar template (go to edit theme, then choose sidebar.php)

<br>
<div class=”blocktitle”>Recent Posts</div>
   <div class=”block”>
     <div class=”menu”>
       <ul>
            <?php
              $posts = get_posts(’numberposts=15′);
              foreach($posts as $post) :
            ?>
      <li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      
       </ul>
      </div>
   </div> 

You can just copy-paste the above into your […]

Now I’m ready to insert the Google Adsense code into my Wordpress Template. On my Wordpress Dashboard, I select “Presentation” and then “Theme Editor” (See earlier post on using the Dashboard). I am now editing the theme “Ads Minded”. On the right, I see a list of files that are part of this theme. Now […]

The way this blog looks is determined by the Wordpress Theme I am using. At first, I’ve just left the theme alone and created some content to get my blog started. Now, it’s time to give this blog a personal look. Here’s the last screenshot of my blog in its original state:

I’m going to install […]

Now you’ve got your first blog entry published! Open a new Browser window (by the way, I don’t recommend using Internet Explorer - you’re better of with some other browser.
Now, just type http://xxxxx.xom in the address bar and voila! There’s your brand new blog. It should look pretty much like mine at this point.
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