I have added three new features to the blog; the Disqus comments system , the ShareThis social media button, and Google AdSense advertisements.
Disqus because it looks awesome and has a trillion more features than regular old WordPress comments, like signing in through Twitter/Facebook/OpenID, great comment approval and flagging, and Gravatar icons. At first the admin page was giving me a blank grey screen, but I looked at my error logs and it turned out that for some reason disqus.php couldn’t find the admin-header.php file when it require()’d it. I just edited the plugin and replaced line 370 with the actual path to the file on my server.
ShareThis was added because Reddit is the best and I want to be a part of it. And I’m an internet whore and I want to be paid attention to. I might eventually write my own version of this, because it’s a bit clunky and not customizable enough.
I added the AdSense block just as an experiment, I don’t actually plan on monetizing anything. I really just want to see how the system works and all that. It looks like I’ve already made about $0.47!
Tags: AdSense, advertisements, Disqus, facebook, Google, Gravatar, OpenID, PHP, Reddit, ShareThis, Twitter
