PopupPicker as a standalone product is now being phased out.

The full product, which allowed several types of popups to be added easily to your WordPress blog or regular web pages, is now replaced by a Lite version, available on ActiveBlogging.com

The Lite version, available to ActiveBlogging Platinum Level members, is a WordPress-only plugin, and provides popups only to WordPress webpages.

For more information on the Lite version, check out our PopupPicker product information page.

In 2005 I wrote a short report on optimizing WordPress for business, “Top 10 Tricks to Conquer Your Niche With WordPress”. It proved very popular, and over the years I’ve expanded and revised it, as online marketing (and WordPress itself) changed.

Now, the fifth edition has made the change offline, and it’s a ‘real world’ edition – on Amazon.com!

About four times the size of the last edition, I’ve gone into detail on using WordPress, as well a many, many beginner topics: getting a domain name, choosing good hosting for …

It took longer than I expected to upgrade my AdBlock Plugin, but it’s up to version 3.0 – and ActiveBlogging Platinum Members are already downloading it free.

Aside from updating the code, and making sure it works on WordPress 2.8.4 (yes, it WAS tested on the latest!), most of the changes involve small upgrades to the features – the ability to add nofollow tags to the Javascript code (just in case Google indexes them, a seeming possibility now), easy CSS coding (so you can position the ad precisely, or put …

I’ve just released a new plugin – one that leverages the power of Social networking with comments and Review sites.

It’s called “Dave’s Social 2.0 Rating Plugin” (or “Dave’s Social Ratings 2.0 Plugin”, depending on my mood), and it allows people to rate posts easily – one click with their comment.

For example, comments here can include rating – and the total is shown below.

The big advantages – VERY flexible, and theme-friendly (NO editing required).

You can read more here about it, and buy a copy.

Of course, ActiveBlogging …

If I told you I could tell at a glance what WordPress version you were running was, would you be concerned?

You should be.

With the recent release of WordPress 2.6.5, and the imminent release of 2.7, there’s a lot of attention on security, and people hacking WordPress sites to gain control of them. So more than ever, it pays to be watching out for any information you give out that could give hackers a leg up.

One such is the version number – every WordPress theme displays it, thanks …