Adding Google Number w/ Adwords tracking to OptimizePress WordPress Theme

Recently I was tasked with adding number tracking w/ Adwords to a client’s website. They are using OptimizePress which isn’t very friendly for any user editing (no child themes, very confusing theme layout for modifications etc). Anyway, I figured it out and thought others might need to know this, if nothing else, at least on how to edit the body tag to include an onload(); function 🙂 So, here’s what you do;...

August 7, 2016 · 2 min · 307 words · Matt G

Quick Howto – Adding Google+ Authorship Support to your WordPress Blog

Here’s a quick and dirty process for adding google+ support to your wordpress blog. Setup google+ Account Add any email addresses you want to your personal or company profiles Make sure on blog / site that your account is setup for whoever is posting to blog, using email that is on google plus. Now visit https://plus.google.com/authorship and put in your email address Wait for verification email and verify you own the email Go to wordpress, and install the Yoast seo plugin Configure the G+ options in your profile following this tutorial (http://www....

September 13, 2012 · 1 min · 118 words · Matt G

Problems Migrating Prosper202 Between Two Linux Hosts?

Today I was faced with migrating my P202 installation from one host to another. As normal, I ran the mysqldump command on the old server to dump the database and scp’d it over to my new host – went to import and I got a bunch of errors like this; ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: './202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm' (errno: 24) ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: './202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm' (errno: 24) ERROR 23 (HY000): Out of resources when opening file '....

December 7, 2010 · 3 min · 478 words · Matt G

Why I switched from OpenX to Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)

Why would I do such a thing??! Pretty straightforward really – I’m sorry to say this about OpenX because I really did like them for a number of years. Lately, they’re just shit. Yup, completely and utterly shit. Ever since the name change to OpenX they’ve been going downhill, and I think nearly everyone in the community will agree with me – including some of their very own (former) developers....

October 14, 2010 · 13 min · 2730 words · Matt G

The worst mistake any affiliate can (and will probably) make.

Get cocky. Yup. I said it. And on top of that I also admit that it happened to me. Rewind about to about 2 years ago when I first got into this industry and I kept saying ‘oh, $500 a month while I sleep would be good enough for me’ and I truly meant it – at that time. People kept telling me once I reached that point I would want more, and of course I didn’t believe them....

October 13, 2010 · 4 min · 803 words · Matt G