1. Add a profile field to your author page aka profile page
2. Remove a profile field from your wordpress profile page
3. Call the custom profile information  somewhere within your blog post

<?php
function my_new_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
	  // Remove Yahoo IM
     unset($contactmethods['yim']);
    // Add Twitter
    $contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
    //add Facebook
    $contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook URL';
    return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','my_new_contactmethods',10,1);
?></code>

And then to call is within you post or pages just edit your template files and add:

<code><?php echo the_author_meta('facebook');?>

Here you will learn

• How to register your wordpress.org widget
• Output html java or php code with widget
• Add CSS or Java script to head of the theme

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/testwidget/testwidget.css" />

your code goes here for content you want on your home page

you other code goes here for none home page content or ads

You sign in here https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/

your going to create two ads – one at a time -

1. Click My ads
2. The New Ad Unit

Now select 336 x 280 – Large Rectangle and click the “Use Custom Settings” Button – see image below.

Copy paste the below hex numbers below into the style area…

• Border 222325
• Title 354FFA
• Background 212120Text 5f5f5f
• URL 5f5f5f

click save and get code – copy the code and paste it into email.

One more ad unit to go…. follow the step above again just this time you’ll make a 468 X 60 Banner

Now make a new ads again – this time select 468 x 60 – Banner then enter the colors below.

• Border 222325
• Title 354FFA
• Background 212120
• Text 5f5f5f
• URL 5f5f5f

click save and get code -

Then send me the code and all you ads will be live once I put them on the website.

I’ll be using ports of course for this entire install. I’m assuming that you have the proper hardware for this type installation.

Start with a minimal installation of freeBSD 8

Bypass the headache and host on vps or dedicated servers with pre-installed LAMP here.

Update the server ports – freebsd guide on ports

First update your port tree

portsnap fetch update *if this is the first time do a portsnap fetch extract

List available update

pkg_version -vIL=

Once you have updated your Ports Collection, before attempting a port upgrade, you should check /usr/ports/UPDATING. This file describes various issues and additional steps users may encounter and need to perform when updating a port, including such things as file format changes, changes in locations of configuration files, or other such incompatibilities with previous versions.

Upgrade your ports with

portupgrade -rR

Okay now that your freeBSD server ports are updates lets do Binary updates freebsd-update.

freebsd-update fetch

freebsd-update install

Then reboot

shutdown -r now

Verify update took place

uname -a

Rollback if necessary

freebsd-update rollback

Now lets install Apache, PHP, mysql and phpMyAdmin on your freeBSD 8 web server.

First install the latest apache from ports.

cd /usr/ports/www/apache22/
make config install clean
echo 'apache22_enable="YES"' << /etc/rc.conf
echo 'apache22ssl_enable="YES"' << /etc/rc.conf
echo 'accf_http_ready="YES"' << /etc/rc.conf &amp;&amp; kldload accf_http

Now install PHP

cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
make config install clean
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions  ** enable <strong>mysql </strong>extensions **
make config install clean

Now modify your httpd.conf – Add the following entries to /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf directly after all the LoadModule lines

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

now locate IfModule mod_dir.c and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

Last but not least get a good php.ini file setup

cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/etc/php.ini

Restart apache and

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start

Now its time for mySQL installation, configuration and setup

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server
make install WITH_OPENSSL=yes
make distclean
echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' << /etc/rc.conf

Start mysql server and change root password

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
mysqladmin -u root password sumcrazypaswrd
mysql -u root -p    *make sure you can log in*
rm /root/.history  *remove history so password isn't exposed*

Create a configuration file for mysql in /etc/my.cnf

[client]
port=29912
[mysqld]
port=29912
bind-address=127.0.0.1

Now lets install configure and setup phpMyAdmin

cd /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
make config install clean
cd /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin && cp config.sample.inc.php
config.inc.php
vi config.inc.php
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'sdf934sdfgHijh98Y';

open httpd.conf and Alias

Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin

Now allow who you want to access it

        <Directory "/usr/local/www/phpmyadmin'<
Order allow,deny
        Allow from all   *or allow from 222.114.123.0/12*
</Directory<

you’ll want https when you connect to phpmyadmin so lets enable https and make some httpd.conf changes

Create your certificate

In order to access phpmyadmin of ssl you need to get https going on apache. You can buy an SSL certificate generated by a trusted CA such as Thwate or Verisign, or you can generate one yourself using OpenSSL. I borrowed a ton of infor from freebsdmadeeasy.com

lets get the openssl.cnf file ready

vi /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
dir = /root/sslCA
default_days = 3650

Now set up the directories

cd ~root/
mkdir sslCA
chmod 700 sslCA
chmod 700 sslCA
mkdir certs private newcerts
echo 1000 < serial
touch index.txt
cd ~root/sslCA
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -extensions v3_ca -keyout private/cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

The CA should now be all set.. test with more;

more ~root/sslCA/cacert.pem
more ~root/sslCA/private/cakey.pem

Now lets generate an SSL certificate for apache

cd ~root/sslCA
openssl req -new -nodes -out yourhostname-req.pem -keyout private/yourhostname-key.pem -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
openssl ca -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf -out yourhostname-cert.pem -infiles yourhostname-req.pem

Lets put everything where it needs to be.

mkdir /etc/ssl/crt
mkdir /etc/ssl/key
cp ~root/sslCA/yourhostname-cert.pem /etc/ssl/crt
cp ~root/sslCA/private/yourhostname-key.pem /etc/ssl/key

And finally add the SSL virtual host

Find the below line in your httpd.conf and take the comment hash out.

# Secure (SSL/TLS) connections
Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

Now modify your httpd-ssl.conf

ServerName ssl.yourhostname.com
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/crt/yourhostname-cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/key/yourhostname-key.pem
DocumentRoot "/etc/www/apache22/data"      ** whatever your location is**
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-error.log"
TransferLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log"

In /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-default.conf, disable ServerSignature to prevent the server from showing more information than it has to. Make sure the server-status and the server-info sections in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-info.conf are commented out.

Finally restart apache

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

Now install wordpress

cd /usr/ports/wordpress
make install clean

do a locate wordpress and move file to web root

locate wordpress
cp /usr/local/www/data/wordpress/* /usr/local/whatever web root is

go into web root and copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

navigate to https://hostname/phpmyadmin and create wordpress db – add that name to wp-config.php

I have my own website.. my boy from e-trade hooked it up.

Compare a domain name to your house having a street address. The house is your website, and the street address is your domain name.

Domains can be purchased from many different places (domain registrars) but you’ll want to purchase it as cheaply as possible and use this domain registrar from here on out. If you build up a huge list of domains and they reside with several different registrars then you haven’t done yourself any favors. Renewals can be a pain and general yearly upkeep and any changes like DNS and CNAM can be a pain, so keep them all in one place.

I really can only recommend godaddy.com as the place to purchase your domain name. They have easy to use tools to manage your domain and offer the best prices on domain name on the internet.

Now if you only plan to build one website then many hosting plans offer you a “free” domain name with the purchase of a hosting plan. Trust me do NOT purchase a hosting plan with godaddy. GoDaddy has the worst hosting package around and the hardware, network and customer support sucks. Avoid them for hosting but feel free to use them as a great source of cheap domain registration.

Okay back to building that house (website) which your domain will point to (street address). It can be hard to determine who to purchase you webhosting from. Of course I use ixwebhosting for this blog and have been recommending them for years. Reliable service and excellent phone support 24 x 7. I’ll get emails regarding planned outages from time to time and they are always upgrading hardware, bandwidth or patching systems. Building up the infrastructure in this nature is paramount in keeping ME happy and all of my websites up and running fast.

Next you’ll need to publish your website with na easy to use content management system. WordPress.org is easy to install (ixwebhosting has a 1 click wordpress install button) and is super user friendly. My daughter has a wordpress blog and she is 7 years old. Check them out at WordPress.org

So let’s recap…

If you plan to buy multiple domains use godaddy. Building up a huge reservoir of domains is cheap and easy to manage with godaddy.

But if you’re building just one website, you can just get one free domain with just about any hosting package around. I use and recommend ixwebhosting to all my friends.

Last but not least you need to be able to easily publish webpages with a click of a button. Can you send an email? Then you can use wordpress.org!

I’ve had to modify this to work in wordpress version 2.9 and have tested it up to wordpress 2.9.1

add the following to your functions.php right below the <?php at the top of the functions.php file

function my_wp_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed

if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');
$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text, '

');
$excerpt_length = 50;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ' ... <a href="'. get_permalink() . '">READ MORE</a>');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
}
return $text;
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'my_wp_trim_excerpt');

Change $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 35);

where 35 is the number of words you want in your excerpt

Share adsense with authors based on author name.

Adding adsense based on user name or author is easy with a little PHP magic.
Using this code your revenue sharing arrangement will work out so the writers AdSense code will be used only on the articles with which they write. Revenue generated from articles that the authors have written is all applied to the users adsense ID. The actual java script that google AdSense produces when you generate an ad is what is used within the HTML produced buy the wordpress loop.

I like this form of revenue sharing because the AdSense revenue is based on pageviews and clicks for each author, the writer is getting exactly what he or she earned based on what they have written and the traffic it brings to your WordPress blog.

In order to add the adsense based on the author of the post you’ll need each author to sign up for adsense and email you a copy of a ad they generated for what ever size box (ad unit) you’re defaulting for your blog.

So lets say your authors email you this adsense code:

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-1345304564559123“;
/* 336×280, created 7/31/09 */
google_ad_slot = “1237752456“;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

The adsense revenue sharing script will be used to replace the “google ad client” and “google ad slot” based on author user name.

So you need to copy the “google ad client” ID and the “google ad slot” ID – above they are “pub-1345304564559123” and “1237752456”

Now insert all those google ID’s as seen below into the php script highlighted below as a quote.

You want to insert the entire below code snippet into your single.php file where ever you want the google adsense rotation code to show up. Usually if you want the adsense ad unit to show up at the bottom of the post just copy paste the below code directly above

<?php the_tags(‘<span id=”tags”><strong>’.__(‘Tagged as:’,).’</strong> ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘</span>’); ?>

or above

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Single.php is located in wp-content/wp-themes/”your-theme”/single.php

In order to get your adsense code to rotate based on author you need to replace the “green” item below with your Author name as seen in the wordpress admin panel.

Replace the “red” item below with your Author’s google pub-ID that they sent you via email.

Replace the “pink” item below with your Author’s google ad slot ID that they sent you via email.

<?php function get_ad_client($author) {
if($author == ‘username1‘)
return ‘pub-userspubIDhere‘;
elseif ($author==’username2‘)
return ‘pub-userspubIDhere‘;
else // default, no author found
return ‘pub-DefaultPubIDhere‘;
} ?>
<?php function get_ad_slot($author) {
if($author == ‘username1‘)
return ‘put-ad-slot-number-here‘;
elseif ($author==’username2‘)
return ‘put-ad-slot-number-here‘;
else // default, no author found
return ‘put-ad-slot-number-here‘;

} ?>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “<?php echo get_ad_client(get_the_author());?>”;
/* 336×280, top fantasy football */
google_ad_slot = “<?php echo get_ad_slot(get_the_author());?>”;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
<br><br>

The final results will look like this – use this code if you’re pasting it into your single.php file

<!--
google_ad_client = "";
/* BLOG 336 BIG BOX */
google_ad_slot = "";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->

That’s all folks! You now will have google adsense show up on your post page in wordpress based on the Author name of the user. The author name is set in the admin panel for each user name. Let me know if you have issues or questions.