What does it do?

The main purpose of this plugin is to help you monetize your blog, in a smart way i mean. Ad Integration is an all-in-one ad managing platform which lets you create, manage and assign ads to your posts and sidebar as widgets (new feature).

Just as at Custom Widgets 2.0 the management and options panels were tuned up to fit the Wordpress 2.7 design, and along with the tune-up we removed useless elements which used up the space. By this way everything got more organized and cleaner.

Assign Ads as sidebar widgets

Did i mention that you can now add your ads as sidebar widgets? I think i did, but eh here’s a quick in-depth look:

After setting the ad location as Sidebar Widget the plugin will automatically create a widget which you will be able to add to your widgetized sidebar from the good old widgets page. And there you have it, you can manage the ads from your sidebar also

How do i use it?

After you’ve installed and activated the plugin a stand alone meu item will appear right below the main menu. This provides quick access to the Custom Widgets management section.

Main Management panel

There are 3 main segments in the management panel: The ads display box, The Options box and the Donation box.

The Ads display box will show all the Ads you’ve setup. Those ads which are written in light grey aren’t public, and those which are written in black are live and running.

The Options box is meant to give you more flexibility and it allows you to define a custom css for the ads and even add html code to appear before or after the ad. The max ad count per page defines  the maximum number of  ads that should appear in the same time on a page.(category pages, tag pages, etc).

Adding a new Ad

Things can’t get simpler than this! Adding a new ad takes just seconds(after a bit of practice of course) and you will easily realize that Ad Integration is a very powerful ad management plugin and it will save you a lot of time and earn you a lot of money(hopefully).

To distingush one ad from an other give a title to your ad(will be visible only to you via the management panel) and insert the html code. The exciting new feature in this release is thge much requested show in sidebar option which if delected will create a widget that will addable to your sidebar from the widget managemenet section.

If you choose to inser the ad into posts you can choose it’s location and it’s alignment. The final step of the new ad setup is the publish function where you can select to publish the ad or not.

Editing An Ad

You can easily edit an ad by clicking the Edit button in the right part of your ad management panel. This will take you to a page where you can edit your ad: rename it,change the code and it contains all the settings which were present on the Add new ad page + EXTRAS.

The extras consist in two handy features:

1) You can choose wether to load the ad automatically or manually. Loading the ad manually means that you will have to inser the generated code() into your post for the ad to show up.
2) By default after adding a new ad it will be automatically activated. You can deactivate it by selecting the No tickbox and saving the changes.

Download Ad Integration 2.0

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Click here to start TS Ad Integration v2.0 download

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Installation

***To upgrade from Ad Integration 1.0 to v2.0 simply overwrite the old files with the new ones.

1) Download the .zip file to your computer and log into your wordpress admin panel.

2) In your admin panel head over to the plugins section and select the Add new segment. Browse to the custom widgets.zip file and click the Install button. Wordpress will unzip the plugin and install it for you after which press the Activate Plugin button.

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We work our asses off to release new plugins and themes for free. Working for free isn’t very motivating as you might know. If you wish to make a small contribution(you will be redirected to a paypal secure page) feel free to use the widget below.Once the donation meter fills up we will release a new theme and a new exciting plugin!

The most significant change you will notice will be the overall design of the Custom widgets options pannel.  We’ve updated the old Wordpress 2.6 styled design to suit the new and sleek design of Wordpress 2.7. Along with the new design we’ve fixed several compatibility bugs and implemented two much requested features: Widget name display, and more organized management. Click image below for preview.

Your text widgets will now have their title displayed in the widget management section, and finding posts you want to assign a specific widget to just got a lot easier. We got a suggestion from mufasa in which he suggested we add scroll bars to all the widget categories.

As you can see on the management preview we did implement his suggestion to the widgets that are assigned.

I talked to mbogdan and he suggested we don’t implement this feature for posts and tags, because displaying 1000+ posts at a time would put a huge load on the server and database, so to make everything simpler we added pagination to almost all sections.

All  posts/tags/pages, etc are organized alphabetically and by this way using the pagination you will easily find the post or item you want to assign a widget to. Cool huh? Also lets not forget mentioning that using the master tick box you can select multiple posts at once. Click image below for preview.

Basically the bottom line is that you will find the new version of custom widgets more flexible and more simple to use. Even a newbie wordpress user can manage it!

Download Custom Widgets 2.0

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Installation & Usage

***To upgrade from CW 1.2 to v2.0 simply overwrite the old files with the new ones.

1) Download the .zip file to your computer and log into your wordpress admin panel.

2) In your admin panel head over to the plugins section and select the Add new segment. Browse to the custom widgets.zip file and click the Install button. Wordpress will unzip the plugin and install it for you.

3) Click the Activate Plugin link, after which you will notice the TS Custom Widgets segment in the bottom of the menu. Clicking it will take you to the management panel.

4) Before you can assign  “custom widget” you will have to head over to the good ‘ol widgets section in  the Apperance section and add or create new widgets. Once you’re done head over to TS Custom widgets section and assign your widget(s) to the desired sections.

5) That’s it, repeat the second part of step 4 with all the widgets you wish to turn into “custom widgets”

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Support us by donating

We work our asses off to release new plugins and themes for free. Working for free isn’t very motivating as you might know. If you wish to make a small contribution(you will be redirected to a paypal secure page) feel free to use the widget below.Once the donation meter fills up we will release a new theme and a new exciting plugin!

Me and mbogdan(he’s betng4u and yes yes he finally bought himself a domain, suggested by me of course ) decided to take a challenge and release 10 goodies every day for the next 10 days, it will be hard, but hopefully we’ll manage it next to college and other projects.

Here’s what we’ve prepared for you:

The order of the releases might change without prior notice, we’ll try our best to keep the order though.

Custom Widgets v 2.0 – fully upgraded to flawlessly work with Wordpress 2.7 and packed with all the requested features including naming for the text widgets and the possibility to assign widgets to static pages set as homepage(can’t guarantee anything!)

Ad integration v2.0 – The release of the first version of this ad-management plugin was in august last year. We decided to upgrade it to 2.0 and to make it fully compatible with the wp 2.7 legacy along with some very very nice tweaks.

Post Quote v1.0 – This will be a brand new plugin, something you’ve never seen before! Basically you will be able to include as many posts you want to refer to in your current post. A bar will be shown which will be expandable. After expansion the post you referred to will be grabbed(ajax baby!) and displayed. The best thing is that we already started working on this. Sweet huh?

Siggie 1.0 – TS Siggie will generate an image which will contain your blog title, the latest post and 3 statistics(for example: total posts, comments and tags). The image will auto-update and by this way you will be able to show off your blog stats in your signature on forums you use.

Folio – The theme is already done, we need to make a few revisions on it. It’s a theme specially made for freelancers to showcase their work. It features ajax sliding for recent work, custom lightbox, automatic thumbnail generation and a very very sleek look. The best thing is that its load time is lightning fast! Ehh what the hell, you can preview it at http://mbogdan.com/playground/wp1/?p=29

Comment Ranks – This plugin will make your blog readers want to comment even more. Basically as the number of their comments will rise they will gain rewards like different color name, rel=”nofollow” removal from links and many other features.

7. All of the old themes will be updated to be fully compatible with Wordpress 2.7 legacy.

Clouds theme - this will be a fast loadingsleek looking theme. It will have a right sidebar and the main colors will be grey/light brown/white.

Royale theme - a magazine alike theme packed with lots of amazing features and loaded with ajax features. Fluid width, featured posts, featured post switch and many many other features(curreently the index page has to be done, the comments page is ready)

Install scripts without fantastico - ebook will contain all the tutorials i’ve published on my blog. This way anyone will be able to access it anywhere and share the tutorials with friends.

Contribute to new theme & plugin releases

We work our asses off to release new plugins and themes for free. Working for free isn’t very motivating as you might know. If you wish to make a small contribution(you will be redirected to a paypal secure page) please use the widget below(greatly appreciated).

Thanks!

With Ad integration v 2.0 you will be able to add ads to your widgetized sidebar and even between posts.

What might be in Custom widgets v2.0(depending on how we can hack wordpress):

• You will have the possibility to add names to your text widgets.
• The link to CW won’t be a top level menu.
• Assign widgets to homepage if you have a custom page set for it.
• Full compatibility with Wordpress 2.7 legacy

..and that’s about it. If you have suggestions you can post here or simply mail me.

Before i uploaded my plugin to wordpress.org i wrote a propper readme.txt file which is compatible with wordpress.org’s standards and included it in the package. I also updated the zip file located on my download server, so regardless of where you download it from you will get the same package.

Currently i do not have any plans for a next release of custom widgets, but most probably i will have to once wp 2.7 is released(to make it fully comptible).

If your using custom widgets please Rate my plugin Thanks!

As it’s name ” Ad integration” says the plugin’s purpose is to integrate ads in your posts. It doesn’t mattter what ad you want to ad: Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, or just a link to an image this plugin can handle it, and just as every plugin it comes with a cool options panel.

1. Requirements

1.1 Wordpress 2.2 and above
1.2 Administrator account
1.3 Ftp acces to “wp-content/plugins” directory for upload

2. Options Panel

The options panel is divided in 3 main sections:Ad Integration, Donate to Development and Options section.

1. Ad integration section

To add a new ad  click the “Add Ad” button which will take you to the add code page. There define the ad’s title and code. Advanced users: You can define your own HTML wrapper.

“Ad name” = the name of your ad. It isn’t publicly displayed anywhere, it’s just so that you can make the difference between the many ads you will ad.

“Ad HTML Code” = your ad’s html code(Google Adsense for example)

“Use default HTML wrapper” = the plugin can conjure the ad in a custom HTML wrapper which can be defiened in the options section. If you don’t know what this is just leave it on default.

“Max repeat count on same page” = This value defines how many times the ads will appear on the same page. The higher teh value the more times the ads will appear on the page(for example a category page)

“Ad position” = The position of the ad inside the post.

If you want to edit your ad click the edit button next to your ad. This will take you to an advanced options page where you have even more flexibility.

“Load type” = The way the ad is insterted in the posts.

- auto: the ad will be automatically inserted in the posts
- manual: the ad will be shown only in the posts in which you add”<!–slayer_Ad_Integration_[AD_ID]–>” .There’s no limit on the number of ads  you insert in a post.

“Public” = you can set an ad to be visible by your readers or not. This feature is great if you don’t want to delete an ad for later usage.

To delete an ad locate in the “Ads” Section your ad and click the “Delete” button. Remember that this is undoable.

2. Donate to Development

Although i doubt that someone will donate i added a donation section(saw it at many plugins), who knows maybe Bill will start blogging, use my plugin and perhaps make a $ 1mill donation(lol).

3. Options

“Default HTML Before Ad” & “Default HTML After Ad” define the wrapper for each ad. You can owerwrite this by selecting “Default html wrapper”

“Custom CSS” gives you the possibility to add css styling to your ad.

“Max ad count per page“  This value defines how many times the ads will appear on the same page. The higher teh value the more times the ads will appear on the page(for example a category page). This doesn’t apply to manual ad inclusion.

3. Download Slayer’s Ad Integration v 1.0

Slayer’s Ad Integration v 1.0 (Primary Download link)

Slayer’s Ad Integration v 1.0 (Mirror link)

Slayer’s Ad Integration v 1.0 for PHP 4.X

4. Installation Instructions

2.1 upload the slayer_Ad_Integration directory to wp-content/plugins
2.2 activate the plugin (dashboard -> plugins -> find “Ad Integration” -> click the activate button
2.3 eat a cookie
2.4 drink some milk
2.5 you are done, now go enjoy the plugin.

Thanks again for using my plugin Feedback and suggestions are as usual warmly welcome!

Maro theme is the first of this month’s theme series. The theme features a 3 columned design and has a sleek brown background which is pretty pleasant to the eye.

Lets take a closer look at its features

The header image just as at the Chameleon theme is automatically generated, but this time it doesn’t matter what php version you are running. This was BETng4U’s idea, i wanted to include the psd in the package but he kept insisting we do it like this, so here we are.

To change the text simply go to your settings page and change your Blog Title and Tagline.

Maro has 3 columns. I decided to make a 3 columned theme because that is what all people want: mroe space for them to put widgets,gadgets,banners and other stuff. Both sidebars are widgetized so you won’t have trouble filling them up .

All latest wordpress theme features are built in including tag cloud, tags display in post, etc.

As usual the theme is XHTML and CSS valid(although the XHTML validation will be ruined once you start posting, happens at each and every blog)

The theme is fully compatible with Wordpress version above Wordpress 2.2.

Because the Wordpress.org theme viewer doesn’t support the upload of themes which have plugins in sepparate folder we integrated Brian’s threaded comments in the theme. They will be automatically activated once you activate the theme.

NO SPONSORED LINKS! As usual you will NEVER find sponsored links on my themes, just a small link back to my blog .

Maro theme has a Theme settings page. Once you activate the theme you will find the Maro Theme Options at the Design section. There you will be able to edit the links displayed on the right top part of the page. On the settings page you will find a Dinate section, so if you enjoy the theme feel free to donate a few bucks .

Download and Live Demo

Live demo: Launch Maro v1.2 Live Demo
Download Link: Download Maro v1.2 Theme

Installation Instructions

Simply extract the maro.zip archive to your computer, upload the “maro” folder to /wp-content/themes/ folder after which head over to your admin panel and activate the theme. That’s it. No more long install instructions like at the other themes .

Other Mumbo Jumbo

If you wish to further develop the theme or add new features to it feel free to contact me at tom@thaslayer.com

If you find any bugs/problems please post a comment here and they will be solved in the next release!

Before everything i want to wish all of you Merry Christmas with lots of joy(i know its a bit late), gifts and happiness and a happy new year!

On saturday you most probably taught that again problems occurred with the theme and i didn’t notify you about the delay, well nothing serious happened(we got drunk like pigs) , yesterday we fixed a few bugs and i was keeping the release for 25th december as a Christmas Present.

Well, all the drinking caused the delay and a bug that occurred in the last minute which was fixed today.

We worked a LOT on this theme, the basic idea of the theme is to offer bloggers a clean and sleek web 2.0 styled theme with unique and great features.

Please Digg this if you like the theme

Check out its features:

IMPORTANT! Make sure you add a title to the text widgets!

2 columned theme with a right sidebar

Avatar system powered by Mybloglog avatars or Gravatars , you have the possibility to choose which service you want to use in admin cp @ sexy comments options

Cool animated favicon

Dragable and expandable sidebar boxes

Shadow effect on text on navbar and sidebar box titles

The sidebar is 100% widget ready

TO INSERT A NEW SIDEBAR WIDGET MANUALY, USE THIS TEMPLATE

<fieldset class=”sidebarwidget_reg_holder”><div class=”side_bar_widget”>
<div id=”sidebarwidget_title” class=”sidebar_title”>
<!– PUT YOUR WIDGET TITLE HERE –!>
</div>
<div id=”sidebarwidget_content” class=”side_bar_content”>
<!– PUT YOUR WIDGET CONTENT HERE –!>
</div>
</div></fieldset>
<script type=”text/javascript”>registerSidebarWidget()</script>

AJAX powered search and comment posting

9 colors for you and your visitor to choose from

TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT COLOR OF YOUR THEME GO TO FUNCTIONS.PHP
CHANGE THE $default_theme = “color number“ VARIABLE WITH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING VALUES

0 – green
1 – grey
2 – blue
3 – purple
4 – navy blue
5 – gold
6 – light brown
7 – teal
8 – red

Post tags and tag cloud option

Great looking links(the visitor will notice the link more easily and in a more enjoyable format.

Recent comments display and the possibility to display any widget in the sidebar in a dragable box.

XHTML & CSS valid!

Works flawlessly in all browsers(Firefox 1.x/2.x, Opera, IE 6, IE 7)

You will not have any sponsored links in the footer, only a link-back to my blog which i kidnly ask you to keep.

The font i used is a commercial font so i couldn’t include it in the pack, so we made a great tweak: the header image is automatically generated, so no image editing is required, just enter your blog’s title and tagline in your admin control panel.

The comment system is powered by sexy comments along with Karma Addon

The theme is using the Silk Icons Collection

The Theme is 100% compatible with Wordpress v 2.3.1!

Installation of the theme:

The insttalation of the theme is extremely easy and consists in 7 simple steps:

1) Download the zip archive and extract it.

2) Upload the contents of the “upload” folder to “wp-content” folder on your server.

3) Go to your admin panel and at “Presentation” activate the theme.

4) In admin panel at plugins activate Comment Karma and Sexy Comments

5) Add your widgets and enjoy the theme!

6) Bugs are constantly fixed and as bugs are fixed the changelog and the archive is updated.

7) If you want to receive bug fixes and notifications about the the theme check out the sidebar Get Theme Updates! element and enter your email address and subscribe.

I respect your privacy, i won’t share your email address with anyone and you will have the possibility to unsubscribe at any time.

The newsletters will contain information ONLY about theme releases and bug fixes.

Download links and Live demo:

Live demo: Launch Chameleon v1.2 Live Demo

Download Link: Download Chameleon v1.2 theme

Feedback and suggestions:

If you discovered any bugs in the theme or if you have any suggestions feel free to send me an email to tom@thaslayer.com

Changelog:

28th December 2007 – The official release of the Chameleon theme.

2nd January 2008 – Fixed page order bug

Donate to development:

Creating quality wordpress themes takes time and money so if you wish to support me feel free to use the button below and donate a few bucks, any amount is welcome. Donations will help me pay fees for coding and development and releases of new great looking templates!

The donations are 100% secure, you can donate using your credit card or your paypal account.

Wooohoo!!! you have no idea how thrilled i am to announce that starting from this moment you can download my latest wordpress template with ajax addons!

Me and my coder(BetNG4U) invested lots of work to make this template what it is and for more than 20 hours we debugged it and improved it to work perfectly. BetNG4U even modified the rating system, because it had some javascript errors and didnt work in IE6. Each time we revised it problems appeared, but finally we fixed everything and everything looks cool.

Check out some of the screenshots on 4 resolutions:

Width = 1024px -> PREVIEW HERE
Width = 1400px -> PREVIEW HERE
Width = 1280px -> PREVIEW HERE
Width = 1600px -> PREVIEW HERE

As you see there aren’t any distortions and the style is 100% fluid and doesn’t have ugly overflows or such, meaning The theme works flawlessly.

Here are it’s features:

great looking web 2.0-ish logo

2 columns for you to have place to put extra content

WidgetBucks and Adsense READY!

widgetized sidebars

AJAX rating system

Thread tags

Tag Cloud

Recent posts and recent comments display

Cool hover effects at comment fields

great looking post display and commenting system

XHTML & CSS Valid

Great hover effects!

You will not have any sponsored links in the footer, only a link-back to my blog which i kidnly ask you to keep.

And last but not least : it is 100% compatible with Wordpress v 2.3.1!

We added AJAX Features to the theme like:

AJAX search

AJAX comment posting

AJAX page navigation (AJAX powered Page navigation will only work if you don’t use mod rewrite, since there are unlimited options to rewrite the URL’s in the admin panel we couldn’t make the AJAX page navigation work with all of them, so only those who have default URL’s will be able to use it(don’t worry, you won’t miss much if you use mod rewrite, in the matter of fact the pages will load a bit faster)

Installation of the theme:

The inststalation of the theme is extremely easy and consists in 4 simple steps:

1) Download the zip archive and extract it.

2) Upload the contents of the “upload” folder to “wp-content” folder on your server.

3) Go to your admin panel and at “Presentation” activate the theme.

4) In admin panel at plugins activate WP-PostRatings

5) Enjoy the theme!

6) Those of you who downloaded the theme before bugs we’re fixed and are facing problems please download the updated package and re-upload it.

7) Make sure you check back once-a-while for updates and bug fixes!

Download links and Live demo:

Live Demo: http://themes.thaslayer.com/styleicious/

Download link: Download Styleicious v1.2 Theme

If you wish to further develop the theme or add new features to it feel free to contact me at tom@thaslayer.com

If you find any bugs/problems please post a comment here and they will be solved in the next release!

As mentioned above, you will not have any sponsored links and we invested lots and lots of work in this FREE template.

Changelog:

8th November 2007 – Fixed the menu and the bug that was making pages saved as drafts to appear in the menu

10th November 2007 – Fixed footer bug, made the footer fluid so if you have lots of tags footer won’t get messed up

12th November 2007 – Anand came accross a sidebar bug, it seems that in ie the middle sidebar(the one with ads) overflows on the footer, this happened because we fixed the footer bug and messed it up, The bug has been fixed

13th November 2007 – The overflowing textbox BUG that was appearing in IE6 has been fixed

If you wish to support me feel free to use the button below and donate a few bucks, any amount is welcome. Donations will help me pay fees for coding and development and releases of new great looking templates!

The template is fully functional with latest wordpress release!

The unique logo and the blended elements make it unique, clean and good looking.

I don’t think its necessary to say this but i will say it anyway: the template is XHTML valid!
It doesn’t contain any sponsor links, the only link is a linkback to my blog, so if you use this template please leave the link intact.

If you have any suggestions please leave a comment, any comments and suggestions are welcome!

Preview:

You can find a fully working demo at Launch Missile v1.2 Live Demo

Download:

Download Missille: Download Missile v1.2 Theme

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