Nomulous Blog » Twitter http://nomulous.com/blog Caveat Lector Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:04:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Added Disqus, ShareThis, and Google Adsense http://nomulous.com/blog/added-disqus-sharethis-and-google-adsense/ http://nomulous.com/blog/added-disqus-sharethis-and-google-adsense/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:36:14 +0000 nomulous http://nomulous.com/blog/?p=348 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 pretty great and I want to be a part of it. 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!

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ZI.GS, requiescat in pace.

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