This tutorial shows you how to set up a Wordpress blog, change its template, add categories, password-protect a post, and add a blogroll.

Adverblog is all about internet marketing. We accept money for for creating blog posts. We accept payment from businesses to provide product reviews, posts and links for marketing purposes.

Why pay for a blog post?

Well, it’s all about SEO. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is what you do to make your site come up in search engines like google. The higher your site comes when people search, the more traffic you get to your website, and the more money you make from however you are trying to convert your visits.

It’s a numbers game, and one of the most important numbers in the equation is how many other sites on the Internet link to your website. It’s not that simple, though. The links carry a weight. A link which is simply randomly placed on some site which google doesn’t respect isn’t worth much.

But a link from a page with plenty of similar keywords in the title, URL and text from to the page you are trying to promote, especially from a site which google considers has gravitas is worth…. well, how much is it worth? Turns out it’s about worth about $25. Blogs have been recognised as a powerful marketing tool for some time and this kind of professional blogging has been going on for a while.

Google loves blogs, indexes them nicely and blogging software like wordpress is well set up to create an SEO friendly, categorised, fast growing and well indexed website very quickly. Banner advertising, even PP contextual link advertising stuffed into content. It’s all looking a bit dated. More and more expensive and less and less effective.

This kind of advertising; custom advertorial- is on the rise.

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The Problem

You have a client who you are creating a WordPress website for. The client doesn't want her website to be viewable until they're happy with it, and asks you to put a holding page up while they get their copy etc finalized.

Trouble is. Once you replace that index.php page with a holding page, they can't view the site to work on it.

The Solution

Add a little bit of functionality to the wordpress system which allows logged in users to view the site, whilst sending all other users to the holding page.

Step By Step

1. Step 1: Create a holding page

   Create a new file called holding.php. This will be your simple holding page. Add your client's logo, a little text and a link to http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin withe the text 'Owner Login' or something similar. Upload this page to your server.

2. Step 2: Create a conditional redirect for logged in users

   We're looking for the point in the WordPress system where we can identify a user and also use PHP's header( 'Location feature before any other headers are sent (which would create an error.
   
   Open wp-blog-header.php. This is the point. After the wp-load.php file has loaded and the function wp(); has run, we can use the get_currentuserinfo() function to tell what user_level is present.
   
   Here we set up our condition, redirecting users who are not logged in to our holding page.
   
   Edit your wp-blog-header.php file so it looks something like this & upload it to your server.
   
   Test it thoroughly, but it should work!

/** * Loads the WordPress environment and template. * * @package WordPress */ if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) { $wp_did_header = true; require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' ); wp(); get_currentuserinfo() ; global $user_level; if ($user_level > 0) { require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' ); } else { header( 'Location: http://www.alpenglow-events.com/holding.php' ) ; } }

The Quit Your Day Job blog, which is our original blog, dating back over three years of having quit my own day job and escaped London, is getting an upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

The new version of the site is currently being developed on a new subdomain http://newblog.listingslab.com and the new features and design will slowly replace the mothership site, http://blog.listingslab.com

The new look is going to be slightly more commercial because the blog currently yields almost a thousand unique visitors each month and some advertising could start to produce some stable revenue for Listingslab Productions.

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