Blog Control is a plugin that helps in controlling some behaviour of your blog.
It lets you to add code in the footer and head section of a template, eg. to add
code from services like the google sitemaps, mygloglog tracking script, analytics
script without modify the template. So your configurations are template-change-proof.
With this plugin you can add an html block before, after and after the "more"
break in a post. I use this to add my adsense code without changing the template pages.
Those html block accept some "tag" like [title] or [title_enconded] that are replaces
with the post title (plain or url econded). Tipical usege is a link like this:
http://digg.com/submit?url=[link_encoded]&title=[title_encoded]
Related post. The plugin has a simple related posts function based on a full text
index of mysql, like the standard related post implementation of other plugins.
The related posts can be added after a posts using the tag [related] in the "after
post" html block code. The output is controlled by some parameters which let to
set how the relates posts list is displayed.
The plugin have many other options: a way to track the outbound links (if you
use google analytics), add the "nofollow" in the post links, force a new windows
for all the links outside your domain.
You can set the plugin to compress the html produced: you can gain from 10 to 30%.
You can force a meta tag in categories and search pages to block the bots (useful to avoid
the content duplication issue).
The plugin is downloadable here (WordPress Codex)
Could you give a concrete example on how to include an adsense code below in a page? I am a novice and totally don’t understand what you mean by [title_encoded] etc.
Thanks.
Sure! To add the adsense conde in the post, you don’t have to use the tag [link_title]. Simply, get the code from your adsense account.
For example, if you want to put some adsense before each posts, choose an ad format like the 336×300.
Then copy the google generated code in the area named “code before the post”.
The adsense code will be added before each posts.
Lovely. Made my day (which is saying something)
I can’t it to work with WP v2.3.3
I cannot be of any help if you don’t write some information about waht’s is not working…
Thanks for the great plugin. I have been able to use it on one blog and like the great features and makes ease of what once were tedious jobs!
I am getting a fatal error on my main blog though at activation using WP 2.3.3 and it’s as follows;
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bc_init() in /home/austink/public_html/wp-content/plugins/blog-control/plugin.php on line 176
Probably you have two copies of the plugin installed, may be under different folder. Are you using the latest version from wordpress codex?
I have one copy, a folder, “blog-control” and no other in the plug-ins directory. I have searched. Could it be a compatibility issue with WordPress 2.3.3?
Hi Austin, I’m using blog control in some blog WP 2.3.3 with no issues. Give me half a day (I’m going to go downcity with my wife…
and I’ll check the plugin code. Have you other plugins installed? Can you give me a list of such plugins? Are you using the cache of blog control?
Tnx!
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