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Advertising for charity

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For the next few months (until at least July anyway) I am going to try introducing a few advertising slots (125×125 boxes and/or text links) over on the top right hand side of the site (just under the Search box).

If anyone is interested in trying one out then the price will be a minimum payment of $50 for a month (you can pay any amount above this if you want) and all money will go direct to Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like any more details.

Tags: advertising, Charity, gurkha, oxfam, trailwalker

Author Message Plugin 0.1

I am pleased to announce the initial release of the Author Message plugin.

This plugin allows you to quickly and easily add an image and a short message or bio for the author of a post/page to the bottom of the post, without the need to modify your theme templates or stylesheet. It would be ideal for use on a multi-author blog with a Newspaper / Magazine style layout. Or, in fact, anywhere you would want to display a little bit of information about the author underneath their article.

The default style looks a little bit like the image below (and a lot like the message at the bottom of this post), though it is easily customisable in both look and layout from within the plugins options page.

Author Message uses the Gravatar system to display the author image based on the email address in their WordPress profile page and the About Yourself text as the message.

More details on this plugin and installation instructions can be found on this page. You can download the plugin using the link below.

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Tags: author, gravatar, message, plugin, profile, wordpress

Support is back online

I’ve finally got around to catching up on all the posts on the Support forum, so if anyone posted without a response there will either be an answer waiting for you or a request for more information.

Can I also kindly request that any errors or bugs you find in our software is reported directly into the Forum rather than as a comment on this blog. This will hopefully make the finding and direct answering of problems easier. You can also request an email update when an answer is made to your discussion by clicking on the “Subscribe to Discussion” link on the right hand side of the forum.

Tags: discussion, forum, plugin, support

Bootstrapping a Charity startup - Introduction

One of my main projects for 2008 is to found and promote a new charitable venture.

To accompany this I have started a new blog to follow my progress and highlight what works and what doesn’t when it comes to promoting a new website.

It should be an entertaining and educational journey, so why not pop over to the new site and say hello.

Tags: blog, Charity, fundraising, guide, million, startup