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Posted By Lester Chan at 02:31 in Site
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This site will be turning 5 on 24th March 2007, which falls on my birthday too. For the past 4 years+, I have been running this site using my allowance and sometimes my mom will pay for the hosting. Many readers asked me why not put ads on my site as I have pretty good site traffic.

I will never put ads on any of my personal site, now or in the future. This is like my hobby and I do not want to earn anything from my hobby. And the main reason for it is, I simply hate site with ads.

Also, I will always provide updates, and most importantly support, for my WordPress Plugins and PHP Scripts for free, rest assured that. I will also create more WordPress Plugins if time allows, I hope I can stop when the number of plugins I created reached 20 (current count is 13).

Just some message I want to let everyone knows =)


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researcher
Comment #1
  • 21:44
  • Saturday, 3rd February 2007

now you’re talking.
keep it this way as long as you can :wink:

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Mark
Comment #2
  • 09:24
  • Sunday, 4th February 2007

Congratulations, five years, it is not an easy thing to maintain a site for 5.

I use several plugins from you, they are all so great. I have 2 suggestions, I don’t know where to write to you, so I put them here:
1.For plugin WP-UserOnline, it is wonderful, it would be even perfect if it can count number of vistors (configurable initial value). I think it is very easy to do that based on current mechanism.
2.General. Can the date/time format be configurable? I always manually to change the format in code to follow my tradition m/d/Y @ h:ia

Thanks for your efforts.

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #3
  • 16:43
  • Sunday, 4th February 2007

researcher: I should not have any problems keeping this site for long =)

Mark: Initial value? but why, it will lose its accuracy. Yea the date stuff, is on my todo list, I will get the default date/time format that you have entered in WordPress

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Mark
Comment #4
  • 19:43
  • Sunday, 4th February 2007

GaMerZ,

The “count number of vistors” for WP-UserOnline, I mean the ability to count accumulated total number of vistors, so it will need an initial value. Sorry for not stated clearly.

With this ability, it will not need to link to an external page counter, and perhaps WP-UserOnline will count more accurate.

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Ashley
Comment #5
  • 21:07
  • Sunday, 4th February 2007

You might want to put up a Paypal link in that case. Sometimes when people find your software particularly useful, they like to donate. Might be worth thinking about. :-)

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Ashley
Comment #6
  • 21:10
  • Sunday, 4th February 2007

Actually, you know, scrub that. I just saw you have a link. Missed that, carry on. :-P

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #7
  • 09:04
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

Ashely: LOL
Mark: you mean as in total number of users visited the site?

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Mark
Comment #8
  • 10:56
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

Yes, exactly.

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #9
  • 15:23
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

i actually intend to do it but found out it was quite overkill and the name does not suite it. WP-ShortStats is also anyone you might be looking for

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Mark
Comment #10
  • 16:41
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

Base on your current WP-UserOnline, it should be easy to count total number of users, IMHO, just add 1 when you delete a record from online table.

Actually there’s another wp-onlineusers plugin, which also includes the count of total users, but I don’t like its programming. :)

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #11
  • 19:34
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

oooo, okie, sounds logical, I see what I can do =)

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aloni
Comment #12
  • 22:20
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

i’ll give you free hosting if ya want. im based on hostingzoom.com. very good servers. 1gig sounds good?

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #13
  • 22:22
  • Monday, 5th February 2007

thanks for the offer, but I am tied up with dreamhost for 2 years =)

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Joe
Comment #14
  • 07:56
  • Thursday, 8th February 2007

Text ads only please? :)

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #15
  • 08:42
  • Thursday, 8th February 2007

no ads =)

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Joe
Comment #16
  • 09:36
  • Thursday, 8th February 2007

I thought you were putting ads on though? So your not now? Early April Fools? :-)

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GaMerZGaMerZ
Comment #17
  • 13:39
  • Thursday, 8th February 2007

nope, I will never put ads =)

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Joe
Comment #18
  • 12:55
  • Friday, 9th February 2007

Oh… I miss read your post. ;-)

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