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PremiumPress Discount Coupons for Free

I just received an email from Mark Fail, owner of PremiumPress, with a bunch of coupon codes for their WordPress themes.

In case you haven’t heard of PremiumPress, they develop great-looking WordPress-based themes that you can use for turnkey websites. You can use their themes to set up an auction website, a shopping directory, a coupon website, a real estate directory, and a classifieds website — in just a few minutes!

Here are the 30% discount coupons that I received today. These coupons are valid from February 2011 onwards.

  • AuctionPress coupon code – SAVE30
  • ShopperPress coupon code – SAVE30
  • DirectoryPress coupon code – SAVE30
  • CouponPress coupon code – SAVE30
  • RealtorPress coupon code – SAVE30
  • Classifieds Theme coupon code – SAVE30

Check out these themes at PremiumPress.com.

Have fun using them!

If you tried one and it didn’t work, please leave a comment so I can check with Mark.

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Easy Way to Add Amazon Widgets to WordPress Posts

The following is a guest post. If you want to submit a guest post like this, please visit the Contribute page, and then read and follow the guidelines for guest post submissions.

I love using Amazon widgets to monetize my blog posts. These interactive mini-applications (as Amazon describes them) display high quality images and add color to my blog. From my experience, readers click on Amazon widgets more than other ads. I think that’s because of the displayed images and the fact that I’m linking to Amazon.

The only thing I despise about Amazon widgets is the process of inserting them to my blog. It only requires copy-and-paste, but going back and forth between Amazon and WordPress is very frustrating. So, I started testing plugins that would at least automate part of the process. Luckily, I found one helpful plugin. It’s called WordPress-Amazon-Associate (WAA).

amazon associates logo e1296471905653 Easy Way to Add Amazon Widgets to WordPress Posts

WAA is free and easy to use. It lets you add widgets right from your post edit screen — eliminating the need to visit Amazon Associate Central. But with certain widgets, you still must visit Amazon Associate Central. I’ll tell you when to use WAA and when to use Amazon Associate Central.

When to Use WordPress-Amazon-Associate (WAA)

WAA is a great choice when you frequently use these widgets to monetize your blog posts:

  • Carousel Widget
  • MP3 Clips Widget
  • My Favorites Widget
  • Omakase Widget
  • Search Widget

All the widgets’ customizations that are available at Amazon Associate Central are available with WAA — customizing widget’s color, size, title, etc. Actually, WAA is even better. When inserting widgets through Amazon Associate Central you flip from one page to the next to customize and tweak the widgets. But with WAA, all the customizations are shown in one small pop-up window that you reach with a click of a button on your WordPress post page.

When to Use Amazon Associate Central

WAA only supports five of the fourteen Amazon widgets — since Amazon provides the source code of these five widgets only. So, Amazon Associate Central is your only choice for adding the other nine widgets.

Also, WAA won’t work for you if you prefer hand-picking the products displayed on the Carousel, MP3 Clips, and My Favorites widgets.

With Amazon, you are capable to search and select products displayed on the three mentioned widgets. But with WAA, you can only enter the search keyword and it’ll select the displayed products. So you get more customized widgets when using Amazon Associate Central.

To sum up, you are forced to log into Amazon Associate Central if you want to use nine of the Amazon widgets or prefer to hand-pick products displayed on the Carousel, MP3 Clips, and My Favorites widgets. But if you prefer to conveniently insert the widgets from WordPress post, then WAA is your best choice.

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Fixed: Unable to Upload Photos to Facebook from iPhone

For weeks, I had been unable to upload photos from my iPhone 4 to Facebook. The error message that kept appearing was:

ALERT: Your photo could not be uploaded at this time.

I thought it was my local network or 3G network that was preventing me from completing the upload. So I did some digging around and found what’s causing the issue — the Location Services setting for Facebook on your iPhone.

To resolve this photo upload error, do the following:

  1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Location Services.
  2. Verify that Location Services is set to ON.
  3. In the list apps that uses Location Services, look for Facebook.
  4. Verify that Facebook is set to ON.
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Location Services page on iPhone

That’s it. The error should no longer occur and you should now be able to upload photos to Facebook from your iPhone.

If it didn’t work or you have questions, leave a comment below.

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From Making Money Online to Personal Development

Alright, I admit to slacking off on posting updates on this blog last year. I was wondering why that was. I’m sure it wasn’t because I hate writing. I suspect that it was because I tried to limit the type of writing that I do on this blog to topics related to making money online only.

There is nothing wrong with developing a blog that focuses on a specific topic or niche. But it can get boring. Imagine talking about making money online all throughout the year. Not only would it be difficult for me to come up with stuff to write about, but visitors would know how obsessed I am with making money. Right?

So based on this hypothesis, I have decided to add some variety into this make money online blog. Starting today, I will be writing about other topics that interest me — such as computers, gadgets, news, health, relationships, and others (that, I hope, you’ll find interesting as well).

With this change, I should be able to come up with stuff to write about.  At least that’s what I hope will happen.

I think I also need to reclassify the blog from a making money blog to a personal development blog. So that will be our theme from now on. Anything that we encounter or experience that affects to our personal development — be it how to use Facebook to drive traffic to your website or an iPhone app that helps you lose weight or a new revolutionary way to stay awake at work.

By the way, I welcome guest posts from anyone who has something to say as long as the content is related to personal development and the post quality is unique and of reasonable quality. What in it for you? You get your article published here and you can add a link to your personal website, if you have one. In case you’re a Google PageRank freak, Metahead.com is now a PageRank 4 site after the recent Google PageRank update.

If you have suggestions, leave a comment and let’s discuss.

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Sticky WordPress Post

How do I make a particular WordPress post stick to the homepage of my blog? A sticky in WordPress? This is a common question that my friends have just started using WP to blog ask me. So we’ll describe the procedure for doing this in a bit.

Why would I want to create a sticky?
If you have useful content on your blog or website that people read frequently. Or if you have content that you want people to read, making that particular page stick to the homepage is a great way to do it.

Where will it appear on my homepage?
If you configured your blog’s homepage to display multiple posts, the post that you made into a sticky will appear at the top of the page. Your sticky page will remain at the top of the page even if you publish new pages.

To make a post stick to the home page

  1. Log in to your WordPress blog.
  2. Create a new post by clicking Posts > Add New.
  3. Fill out the post title, content, and other fields that you want to configure.
  4. When you are ready to publish the post, look for the Publish widget.
  5. In Visibility, click the Edit link.
  6. Select the Stick this post to the front page check box.
  7. Click Publish.
  8. Go to your blog’s homepage and verify that the WP page that you stickied appears as the first article.

You’re done! That was easy, right?

Note: Only posts that are public can be “stickied”. You cannot sticky something that is password-protected.

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How to Make a WordPress Post Sticky

Visit my WordPress archives for more tips and tricks on using WP. If you also have WP tips and tricks that have not been covered (or covered completely), I invite you to submit a guest post. If you think you have something useful to share, send it in!

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