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Make your Own WordPress Theme – Part 1

13 December 2006 303 Comments

After I released my first WordPress theme to public, I make another theme for my site, CypherFS Royale . Then an idea sparkling into my head. Why not I make a tutorial on how to make WordPress theme to public? I’m sure there are many peoples are looking to make their own theme for their website. So lets get started.

But before we proceed, I want to tell you first that this tutorial only covers on how to set the layout and the tags or functions needed to make your WordPress theme works perfectly. It is really basic. I will not teach you html, css and php here. You need to learn them by yourself. There are many tutorials available on the net. I’m sure you can found them in ease.

Ok, I split this tutorial to 7 parts. Here are some details for each part.

The New Interface of CypherHackz.Net

8 December 2006 19 Comments

Hey guys! What do you think with the new look of CypherHackz.Net? I start coding the template on 4th December and because of this site use graphic as the background, so it takes time to finish it up. At first I want to use this theme on this coming 19th December as a birthday gift for the domain. It will become one year old. but I can’t wait ya know. Lol…

This theme name is CypherFS Royale. I chose Royale as the name because the idea of this design is from my XP theme which is Royale.

But the problem is the html file is too big. About 60kb per page. Do you know how to reduce it? The best html file should be below 20kb.

This theme should valid XHTML and CSS but because I use the feedburner chicklet and some other scripts make it not valid anymore. Duh…

Btw does this site load slow? [tags]site, theme, wordpress[/tags]

Display AdSense in certain Posts in WordPress

8 December 2006 6 Comments

James emailed me on how I display my adsense in certain posts. As you can see on my homepage, there is an adsense above the content in my first post. And after the first post, there is another post that has adsense but without content. To do it, you just need to put a counter. We create the counter by using PHP.

First we need to declare the variables that we want to use.

$postnum – This variable use for count how many posts in the loop
$showads# – This variable is use the adsense that we want to display.

Note: Replace the # with number, eg: 1, 2, etc.

Ok here is the trick. Put this PHP code before the loop.

<?php
$postnum = 1; //Define the initial value
$showads1 = 1; //This mean it will be display in post #1
$showads3 = 3; //This mean it will be display in post #3
?>

Hack FeedBuner Chicklet Button

7 December 2006 1 Comment

Usually the FeedBurner chicklet that we see is like this

How about if we change it to something different like

or or

To do it, just put this following code &label=hacked after the image url. It is really simple. :d [tags]hack, tweak, feed, feedburner[/tags]

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Got my first AdSense Check

7 December 2006 18 Comments

Ha3. Know what? I got my first AdSense check today. Kinda happy. About one year (that link was posted in Malay) I’m waiting to get this check. Lol… How lame… My blog will be one year old this coming 19th December and I guess this check is a gift from Google. :d

I took some pics of my adsense check but couldn’t transfer them to my comp because I didn’t bring my phone camera cable with me. Duh…

It is not really hard to make money from adsense. If your site has good traffics, you can earn the money easily. Btw my site is not really high in traffics. That’s why I waited about a year just want to hold this check. 🙂

Beside than AdSense, I had join other site monetizing such as Text Link Ads and AdBrite. Currently Text Link Ads is my primary online money incomes. :d[tags]adsense, check, cheque, money[/tags]

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