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Archive for July, 2007

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IMPORTANT UPDATE ON 02 December 2009: JS seems to be enabled in recent WP releases. Can you take a look at this post and let me know what you discover?

OK. Enough. I’ve had it. How can WordPress not allow built-in Javascript in your post content. And more importantly, how come no-one has released a simple plugin to allow it?

Well, someone has.

Me.

Today.

It took about 5 minutes to write, after 2 hours of messing around with various alternative plugins, trying to hack them to work.

Download The Plugin
Click here to download the plugin.

Installation Instructions
1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip it
3. Copy the one file contained therein to your wp-content/plugins directory
4. Log into WordPress. Go to Plugins. Enable the plugin
5. Insert the javascript in your post.

Upgrade Instructions
1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip it
3. Copy the one file contained therein to your wp-content/plugins directory

That’s it.

WordPress Version Compatability
WP 2.7 – Version 1.0, 1.1 of the plugin works OK
WP 2.3.3 – Version 1.0, 1.1 of the plugin works OK
WP 2.3.2 – Version 1.0, 1.1 of the plugin works OK
WP 2.0.3 – Wordpress.com don’t keep a copy of this archive, so I can’t test this version.

Comments
I’m using the simple text editor in my posts, by disabling the WYSIWYG editor in my Wordpress profile. (See Users->Your Profile – uncheck the box marked ‘Use the visual editor when writing’)

I’ve not tried it with the visual editor, as I never use it anyway.

Update (18th July 2007): The WYSYWIG editor definitely breaks it when you edit the post (It puts a backslash in front of any single-quotes). You can go into the “code” view and fix it manually, but you have to do that each time you edit the post.

Update (20th July 2007) : I’ve just tested the plugin with two inline javascript calls, and one call to an external script and it worked fine. Just one note: any JS called in the post will ALSO take effect when you edit the post, since it will run in the preview section.

Update (3rd January 2008): I’ve started the “WP version compatability” list above. Feel free to let me know if you have another version, and the plugin works or doesn’t. I’ll do my best to keep this list up to date.

Update (03 February 2009): Just release version 1.1, which fixed some issues with Javascript code formatted in multi-line statements. No idea how I missed this one, but thanks to the people who do actually add their sample JavaScript code to the comments on this post!

Example

A little history: I re-entered the product creation game about 4-5 months ago. This was after starting on the “mass Adsense site generation” game back in Feb 2006. It went well. Really well, actually. Right up till the Google Slap in July(?) 2006. Then my income didn’t cover my expenses, so I dropped out of that game.

I then spent a few months wondering what to do, dabbling in this, trying that, before deciding that software, reports, membership sites, etc where the way forward, making sure that the income I was getting was almost entirely dependent on my efforts.

Which is what I was doing prior to the Adsense ventures – creating reports and software (although not very successfully, I admit).

One of the things that started to turn my fortunes around, and which I foolishly gave up when I started on the Adsense sites, was trying to maximise my list.

I studied the mails that I was getting, and categorised them all into about 30 or thereabouts different types of mails.

Then I started applying those 30 types of mails to my own lists. And immediately started seeing more income, gaining more affiliates, getting more joint venture projects kicked off, and so on.

I wrote a report at the time showing how I was doing this, but I pulled it off the market when I did the Adsense stuff.

It’s now back on the market, using the “$7 report strategy”, which means that you can refer other people to the report and earn 100% of the income from the sale of the report. Unlike a lot of other “$7 reports”, this is 50 pages of meat, so it’s priced at the slightly higher $10.

If you’re interested in taking a look, it’s available here.

And if you’re interested in promoting it, you can do so by sending people to
http://www.theemailmarketingchecklist.com/?e=XXX – replace XXX with your Paypal email address.

eg http://www.theemailmarketingchecklist.com/?e=you@yourdomain.com

NB: You do need to be set up in Paypal to be able to sell items, which I believe entails having a premier or business account.

I’ve had an idea on the backburner for a while. It would be a great service to be able to provide, and would be my first residual source of income, and it’s getting more and more important to me to develop these types of opportunities: my son is getting older, my girlfriend and I both work full time, and both of us are unwilling to go part time until I see some steady, reliable income.

So.. this idea has raised it’s head, as it’s the most viable one (I think). The issue is that it’s labour-intensive, compared to some other ideas I’ve had, which is why I’ve shyed away from developing it in the past.

But. It’s crunch time. I’ve decided to go for it, IF there’s enough interest, and if I can provide the service at a price that’s cheap enough for my customers, but high enough to allow me to invest the time.

So… could you answer a few questions? The first one is basically “Are you interested in this service?”, as the people reading this blog come from a variety of sources, so some will be very likely interested, and some will not be interested in the slightest.

Here’s the survey. Thanks for sparing your time and sharing your thoughts.

How’s this for a demo of hand-free processes.

TripleYourList.com is a list-building tool, in that you refer people to the site, and you get new referrals that you can invite to your list.

And it just works. Every few days, I get new referrals.

But, once I’ve gotten those referrals, I have to click on a link in an email which sets my profile up to get more leads later. That’s fine and dandy, it’s only one click every few days.

Note: I’m not actually using those leads yet – I want to set up a good follow-up system for them, rather than just dumping them into my normal mailing lists. Just haven’t got around to doing that yet.

But…. when I click that link, there’s a message saying that the system is temporarily down. However, I do still get the next leads after a few days.

People raised this in the forum… on the 18th May.

It’s still unresolved.

Support tickets have been raised (including one by me).

It’s still unresolved, although my ticket was responded to, saying “your leads will no recycle”… nothing about the “site down” message.

So that’s about 7 weeks with no resolution. Now, OK, it’s not actually effecting the system, but Gary Ambrose earns some income from this site. You’d think he’d fix it so that his paying customers have a better impression of him?

So, come on Gary – get it fixed!