Usually when I browse through my website’s statistics, I happen to check referring websites just for the heck of it.

Often I discover some nice resources and sometimes I discover some that sucks.

Today I just saw http://blogging-oriented.blogspot.com in my stats and took a look at it.

Guess what? This is the content that I saw on the home page (or at http://blogging-oriented.blogspot.com/
2007/11/how-to-add-favicon-to-your-siteblog.html) :

Except for the first sentence and the screenshot, the post has been copied word-for-word from my post located at http://www.thewebmasterscafe.net/web-design/adding-favicon.html! Talk about not being able to create your own content!

There’s No Get-Rich-Quick Method

I guess that with all the make-money-online craze that’s been going on lately on the web, people are putting up websites and blogs in the hope of making a quick buck. Well guess what? You just won’t make it that way. If you’re in to making it online on a professional level, provide your own unique, original and useful content.

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A blog is a nice place to exchange ideas, meet people who have the same interests as you and build a community. MyBlogLog is a great tool to help you build this community around your blog. If you scroll down this page, you’ll see a MyBlogLog widget that displays the latest visitors’ avatars.

When people comment on my blog, I like to see who they are. It gives a more personnal vibe to the post. This can be possible using the Wordpress plugin developed at Napolux.com. Installing the plugin is pretty straightforward:

1. unzip it’s content
2. upload the MyAvatars folder to your plugin directory
3. enable the plugin

When you’re done, add the following code to comments.php in the comment loop:

<?php if(function_exists(”MyAvatars”)) MyAvatars(); ?>

For my part, I’ve added it right before:

<?php comment_text() ?>  

As reported by Zac Johnson, the MyAvatars plugin may generate a stack overflow error in Internet Explorer 7. You can solve this problem by removing the Javascript code in the avatar’s image tag.

If you don’t want to bother with this, you can download the fixed plugin here: myavatars.zip

I came across a post from Shoemoney awhile ago in which I learned about improving Wordpress performance with the wp-cache plugin.

I just want to point out that if you are using OpenAds within your Wordpress theme, using OpenAds’ PHP invocation code will result in not rotating between banners associated to your publisher zone until the cached pages are expired.

The only workaround is to use the Javascript invocation code but keep in mind that this may alter your website performance.