James Seligman

My 5 Favorite WordPress Plugins for Datafeed Sites

by James Seligman on May 8, 2012

I get a lot of emails from people asking me, what are some of the WordPress plugins I use for some of my datafeed sites, so today I’m gonna share my top 5.

First off, on all my WordPress Datafeed sites I use nothing but Thesis Theme. Best “out of the box” theme out there!

1. CSVPiG – I’ve been using this plug in for over a year now and absolutely love it. You can download any CSV files from the likes of ShareASale, CJ, Linkshare, etc. It does take a little getting used to with the Tokens. But once you use it a few times, it’s very easy.

2. Hot Linked Image Cacher – The killer plugin automatically searches for Hot Linked Images within your posts and automatically cache the images locally and update the img links within your posts. This way you are not relying on the merchant’s images or server. Thanks to Logan Thompson for introducing me to this one.

3. Thumbnail For Excerpts – With this plugin, it will grab you post image and create a thumbnail for you automatically. With a few clicks you can center it, change the size of the image. It very easy to use. (Again thanks to Logan.)

4. CloakPiG – With CloakPiG will automatically cloak every external link you add to any post or pages. It also has a simple, but useful click counter.

5. Thesis Openhook – Although I have had a lot of issues with the newest version, this is still a must have if you are using Thesis. It makes it easy to customize Thesis. One thing I do like is for a novice you can turn on the Hook Locations and look at your blog and you will see where all the hooks are.

What are some of your favorites?

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What happened to talking about forums?

by James Seligman on April 26, 2012

I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile now.

I am always getting emails on why I don’t talk about forums anymore here and am I still running them.

So the answer is yes, I am still running some forums.

On why I don’t talk about them much here anymore, well about 6 months ago or so I bought another blog that I talk a lot about forums, vBulletin, Etc. You can check it out here

I’ve been doing a lot of post lately on the customizing the vBulletin Mobile style. My latest post is” How to Create a vBulletin Powered Mobile Page”

But just because I post there, doesn’t mean you can’t still ask me questions here.

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Screw you March! TGI April

by James Seligman on April 12, 2012

March was one of the worst months for me with things that happened with my business.

It all started on a sunny Saturday morning…

Screw that!

The first week of March someone hack into our Paypal account and tried withdrawal $1000.00 from our linked checking account, which is weird since there was almost that much sitting in our Paypal account. (Dumbasses) But it was too late for Paypal to stop the transaction so it was decided to close that checking account and open a new one (Which that caused some more problems).

The following week we got a notice from our hosting company that someone injected an iframe into one of our templates (yes it was outdated – our fault) and which caused some problems trying to fix it via SQL.

Next: So our bank account was all setup and ready to go, we gave our bank all the outstanding checks that were out there, so they would be routed to the new checking account. Well you guessed it, they weren’t! So I had an upset customer with some returned check charges from his bank. Luckily the bank covered the fees, but I think some damage was done.

A couple days later when I think nothing else could go wrong:

Yep our Google Adsense account was disabled. I know that I wasn’t they only one that it happened to, there were a lot of others that it happened to all around the same time. Adsense was not one of our major money makers, but it still stung a little, we did make pretty good money from it. This is a good reminder to diversify where your website income is coming from.

Lastly (it’s funny, but It hurt) – I went to my Mom’s for her Birthday and also to do some things around the house. My Mom injured her back over a year ago and it’s really hard for her to do anything without hurting. Anyway I had an old 27” CRT TV sitting around the house here and since we never used anymore, I decided to give it to my Mom.

Well I grab it out of the car and the cord slipped out of my hands and I thought I’ll be okay, well I kicked the cord and it caught on my mom’s truck tire and which caused me to fall and land hard on one of my knees and messed it up pretty good. Well there I was laying in my mom’s drive way and the TV is on top of me. Remember this is an old 27” CRT, the ones that weigh about 100 pounds, the cord ripped out of the back of the TV and a busted up knee.

Laying there for a little bit, with my mom freaked out because she can’t doing anything because of her back. I was able to roll over and set the TV on the ground and tend to my busted up knee. After a little bit I went back out and brought the TV back and…..

YES! It still works! FTW

Happy April Everyone! Cause March, you sucked!

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Seattle Affiliate Meet-up at HasOffers March 13th

by James Seligman on March 6, 2012

One of my buddies Ian Fernando is coming to Seattle next week and has put together a meet-up next Tuesday, March 13th at HasOffers offices in Seattle at 5:00PM.

So come out and meet Ian, myself and the HasOffers team and network with other entrepreneurs and affiliates in Seattle. This is an informal meet-up; just mix and mingle with some great folks.

So far looks like we have a pretty good group attending so far, you can check out all the meet-up info here and RSVP.

I look forward to seeing you there.

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Convert All Caps to Lower Case in Word

by James Seligman on January 31, 2012

I received an email from someone this past weekend about making all caps to regular text in Microsoft Word. Since they saw my post on how to do it in Excel, they figured I might know how to in Word (I Do).

It’s much easier to do it In Word than Excel.

Click here to see how it’s done…

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