The true easy way to make money

Wordpress is proving to be one of the most useful software packages a webmaster can use in the quest to make easy money online. Many wordpress users around the globe are running successful blogs via this fantastic free blogging software, the clear advantage over other packages is the shear scale with which you can customize your own blog.

Breaking away from the crowd is far easier with Wordpress as almost every option can be altered, as well as the staggering amount of free plugins available online.

If you are new to Wordpress i suggest you start here at the wordpress codex.

Installing Wordpress

There are literally hundreds of websites explaining how to install Wordpress, and with good reason as the software is quite difficult to get your head around at first. Stick at it and soon you will understand most aspects of Wordpress blogging, even if you are new to web development.

The Wordpress codex does a great job of explaining how to install the software and with a little help from the Wordpress team and your website hosting company there is no excuse not to get the software installed without to much of a headache.

The Affiliate Secret recommended plugins

The Affiliate Secret recommends and uses the following free plug-ins:

• All in one SEO pack - Setting up your blog’s SEO for you, this plugin is a god-send.
• CformsII - Contact forms are easy with cformsII, style can also be customized to suit your blog.
• CommentLuv - A very popular plug-in used to encourage people to place comments on your blog.
• Feedflare - Integrating Feedburner in wordpress helps automate user subscriptions.
• Recent Comments - Another comment encouraging plug-in showing users recent comments.
• Google XML Sitemaps - Creating and updating your blog’s sitemap instantly after each update.
• Kimili Flash Embed - Adobe Flash movies in your wordpress blog are possible with this plug-in.
• Samarin PHP widget - Create and insert custom widgets into your sidebar, love it!
• Subscribe to Comments - Allows the user to receive notification of any future comments.
• Top Commentators - Another comment encouraging plug-in linking to your top commentators sites.
• WP-Postratings - Users can rate your post out of 5 with this plug-in, encouraging feedback.
• Wordpress Gravatars - Implements avatars into Wordpress comments, giving your users avatars.

This is just a small amount of the available Wordpress plug-in’s, almost anything is possible using Wordpress blogging software. The Affiliate Secret hopes you find this plug-in list useful and please feel free to recommend other vital plug-in’s by commenting below.

Firebug plugin for Mozilla

Unless you currently browse the internet with Mozilla Firefox you will not have seen the Firebug plugin, basically it gives you a real-time display of any changes you make to the html or css theme within your browser. The perfect tool to help design your css theme and also essential for troubleshooting those pesky problems with your new themes layout.

A real time saver

The team at The Affiliate Secret highly recommend you download Firefox and install the Firebug plugin now. The Firebug plugin really is a god-send when css editing in Wordpress or Dreamweaver. Being able to see what effect your html coding or css edit has made immediately, saves you a huge amount of time over saving the file, uploading then refreshing your browser.

Sneaking a peek

Another great advantage of the Firebug plugin is the ability to ‘peek’ at almost any other webpage’s backend. The ultimate way to learn those css theme & html code tricks you have seen on another website, without having to tediously search through the ‘view page source’ code. Webmaster’s still have to implement the code manually, but life is that much easier when you have already seen what change the css edit will make.

Internet Explorer has taken a major backseat with Firefox being the faster, more stable browser. After installing the Firebug plugin any serious web developer is going to realize the advantage over any other available web browsing software.

Get Mozilla Firefox and the Firebug plugin here.

Adobe Flash, one of the most impressive tools in the webmaster’s toolkit. Anyone who has experience in Flash can tell you it has a big future, with its huge scope of possibilities. A logical addition to any good website? not so easy with your wordpress based site aparantly.

After an atempt to embed flash into wordpress i was quickly rejected with a empty div. To embed swf in a wordpress theme or post i was going have to search the flash plugins.

Kimili Flash Embed for Wordpress

It didnt take long, i cant recommend this plugin more with a simple path, size & height code embed the flash plugin works perfectly. You can find the Kimili Flash embed plugin here.

example of embed flash swf into a post:

My latest embed swf can be found above titled “unlock todays secret” so check that out and tell us what you think, alternatively if your own Flash or embed swf skills need a boost check out these helpful tutorial videos from tutvid on YouTube: