After another hectic week with server outage issues, death of desktop’s motherboard and some offline activities, I’m finally back to blogging again.

Every time when I come back blogging, the first thing I need to deal with is the spam comments. This is the biggest trouble I need to face because usually the number of the spam comments is huge! Last week it marked the most spam comments I’ve received so far, just take a look for yourself :-

Minus some less than 30 comments that still under moderation, the rest are just simply spam comments. Can you imagine that?
Anyway, I did glance through all the comments in case I miss any valuable one before deleting the junk.

Talking about spam filter for Wordpress, I’ve tried Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma. Both of them didn’t really give good results.
I will have to try Askimet soon.

Anyone has an effective spam filter to recommend? I need it badly!
Thanks.

Hi all,

I’m again sorry for the lack of update.

Now I’m back (again!) to blogging because I was a bit amazed this morning been told that this blog is labeled #2 most influential blog in Malaysia.

Basically, the way Gaman ranked the blogs is based on Technorati ranking. This blog is ranked 604 in Technorati at the moment. Therefore, after reading his post I don’t feel surprise this blog ranked so high in Gaman’s chart as long as only Technorati ranking is taken into account.

Is my blog influential? I suppose many of you doubt about it, me too. Anyway, this is Gaman’s chart and he has his own explanation to how he defines “influential”. Anyway, one thing I’m sure is that this chart will be a good foundation for any future research on Malaysian blogs.

Now I seem to have motivation to blog more often, since I’m so “influential“. Haha…

This post is also a friendly plug in a way to appreciate the effort and time Gaman (owner of Sabahan.com) has put in to compile the list of the top 50. Kudos to him!

Hi all,

It’s been more than 1 month I didn’t blog at all, sorry for the lack of update.
Final year thesis and World Cup took up most of my time last month. Thank God it’s all over!

As you noticed, I’ve just changed the theme of this blog to my own Wordpress theme, AdsMinded, the theme for contextual advertisement (such as AdSense) publishers.

Due to reason my blog is slightly modded, I’m afraid the new theme would give you broken link or any sort of problem.
Please kindly drop me a comment here if you find any. Thanks a lot!

I’m now officially back to the blogsphere again. Besides, I’m thinking of covering more topics such as earning money on the Internet and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in the future. Stay tuned!

After 10 days since I released my first Wordpress theme named Ads Minded on May 4, 2005, here comes the wide version of the theme.

The main difference between the normal version and wide version is the width. The normal one is having the width of 770px whereas the wide version will have a width of 1000px. This version suits you if most of your blog readers are using screen resolution larger than 1024 x 768.

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Ads Minded Wide Version

Finally I completed my first ever Wordpress theme.
Hope you like it.

Alright, let’s get into the introduction of Ads Minded Wordpress Theme.

Introduction

Nowadays, publishing contextual advertisement (such as Google AdSense) on Wordpress blog is nothing special. Hence, I had a thought of building a Wordpress theme with the consideration of publishing as many advertisements on the blog and yet not compromising the content area and design of the blog.

Ads Minded Wordpress Theme was finally completed today and will be officially running on this blog. The following are the features of the theme :-

• Wordpress 1.5 & 2.0+ compatible
• XHTML compatible codes
• W3C CSS compatible codes
• 3 columns with an optional square advertisement (Shows on main page) on top of the sidebars
• Search engine friendly and easy advertisement placement
• Comes with a few useful plugins written by me and others
• Just browse around the demo you will have a better idea.

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AdSense Wordpress Theme - Ads Minded

Hi all,

Just giving you all a brief introduction of my first every Wordpress plugin - Submit It.

Introduction

Submit It helps reader to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin. For example, if your reader has an account at Del.icio.us and would like to bookmark one of your post, he/she just have to submit the post via the link in this plugin. in other words, Submit It offers you or your reader a fast way to bookmark a post.

The feature of Submit It is as follows :-

• Wordpress 2.0 compatible
• XHTML compatibled codes
• Just add 1 line of code to use this plugin
• Layout customization using CSS
• Services included in this plugin :-
  • Technorati
  • Feedster
  • Bloglines
  • Del.icio.us
  • Spurl
  • Furl
  • Simpy
  • Blink
  • Digg

Requirements

This plugin was tested using Wordpress 1.5.2 and 2.0.1, so it should work on any recent Wordpress 1.5+ version to the latest version. If you are using an older version, I recommend that you to upgrade to the latest version.

Installation

Only 2 steps :-

• 1. Download the Zip file and extract everything and put them into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress administration page.
• 2. Put < ?php add_submit_it(); ?> into your template (usually index.php or single.php)

You should see the following file structure in your /wp-content/plugins/ folder :-

• plugins folder
  • submititicons folder (containing all icons)
  • submitit.php
  • submititstyle.css

That’s it.

Please feel free to leave your blog address in the comment, I will list all the blogs using this plugin for free advertisement.

• Hi Tech Blog