WordPress Plugin: AdRotator - Ad Rotating Solution for your Ads (including AdSense, Clicksor, Chitika etc.)
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Overview
Displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location. Tested on WordPress 1.5 & 2.x. Should work with earlier and later versions (future and past proofed). It can also be used with other CMS systems or anywhere where PHP is supported.
It does one job and does it well. Enough said.
If you find this useful, let me know. Links are appreciated too.
Note: Contact me for custom modification requests.
Requirements
AdRotator was created with few simple requirements.
- It should allow rotating (randomly) between any number of advertisements (or other code or images etc.)
- It should be efficient.
- It should be simple to use.
- It should be simple to install.
- It should be simple to uninstall.
Usage
This can be used to distribute your Ads impressions between various providers and to provide variety to users.
It can also be used to randomly include any other code or even to randomly display images, text messages etc. The usage is limited by your imagination only. You can also use it to display rotating advertisement within your posts or pages.
The code can be used with non-WordPress systems too.
Update: You can refer to my comments below for further clarifications and an example of the text file.
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May 30th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Is this rotator supposed to exchange ads continuously while viewing the same page or is does it Only changes ads as you change pages on the blog? I installed it and if I go to different category pages, it does change the ad with each new page viewed. Do you know of any plugin that will keep them changing on the same page or am I just getting this wrong? thanks!
May 30th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
It changes ad with each viewing of each page. You can reload the page to test it.
> Do you know of any plugin that will keep them changing on the same page or am I just getting this wrong?
No. AFAIK it is not recommended by Google and many Ad providers as it leads to artificial increase in page impressions. Check the TOS before you go that route.
May 31st, 2005 at 1:15 pm
What if I am publishing my own banners? I have simple src tags in the footer.php and sidebar.php in my WordPress Theme. Can I rotate multiple banners in the footer, or in between posts?
Thanks
May 31st, 2005 at 8:58 pm
@Ravedelay
> What if I am publishing my own banners?
Sure. No problem.
> Can I rotate multiple banners in the footer, or in between posts?
Anywhere you want.
July 2nd, 2005 at 11:10 pm
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October 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Angsuman,
I’m the guy from WP forums who is STILL having problems making some rotating ads work. You dropped by and offered your services– which I greatly appreciate.
You say this AD ROTATOR is easy and requires little coding. I’ve read this ‘manual’ twice and must politely disagree.
1. I completed the first step, uploading and activating the plugin. Very clear.
2. You then ask me to create a .txt file. I’m pretty sure I know what you mean, but right there some people won’t. I’m a Mac user that believes I can create such a file in text edit, but I’m unsure if I need to do so in some binary or ascii mode, neither of which mean anything to me but I that I see now and again.
3. Even worse:
“Each of these files contains one or more lines. Each line contains the Ad code for any particular advertisement.” This is very vague. Lines of what? What ad code? What does it look like, exactly, since in code EXACT matters.
**************
My best suggestion: create and post an example banners.txt file, with example ad code in it.
My personal request is that you DON’T force us to identically sized banners.
Any help would be greatly GREATLY appreciated,
Jerome
October 10th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
@Jerome and others
> You then ask me to create a .txt file
I mean create a text file with .txt extension.
> “Each of these files contains one or more lines. Each line contains the Ad code for any particular advertisement.” This is very vague. Lines of what? What ad code? What does it look like, exactly, since in code EXACT matters.
> Lines of what?
“Each line contains the Ad code for any particular advertisement.”
> What ad code?
Your advertisers like Google / Chitika etc. gives your certain text to insert in your webpage / template. That is commonly referred to as ad code.
> What does it look like, exactly, since in code EXACT matters.
It depends on your advertiser. See the example below for my advertisers code.
> My best suggestion: create and post an example banners.txt file, with example ad code in it.
You got it - sample adrotator file - adrotator_example.txt
> My personal request is that you DON’T force us to identically sized banners.
I don’t. You can have any number of banners of any sizes; all different even.
Not only that you can use them in as many locations as you want; you can also have certain ads display with more frequency than others etc.
October 11th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Dear Sir,
You rock. Thank you so much for the sample.txt youp posted. It helped me figure out little nuances and such and was greatly appreciated.
What would make this plugin really easy– maybe:
1. We upload and activate the php.plugin
2. It creates a control panel under ‘manage’
3. It allows us to name and create a .txt file in the default location; as well as a default position/folder for images
4. It offers fields for html, descriptions, and images
This may be asking a lot, but what I’m trying to do is reduce the potential of error for the novice like myself
******************
But THANK YOU thank you THANK YOU for you help in this matter.
******************
There isn’t a way to make this somehow work for a PHPboard, is there? (I managed to get the javascript thing to work there.)
October 11th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
@Jerome
Thanks for your compliments.
I will keep your suggestions in mind for the next version.
> There isn’t a way to make this somehow work for a PHPboard, is there?
It is very easy to make it work anywhere. I may soon put up a generic version for other systems.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Is there anyway this ADSense tool can advertise banners with Pictures, and not just TEXT ads? If its capable of doing this please let me know !
Great plugin by the way
November 5th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Give me the download link Please
November 5th, 2005 at 3:28 am
It is in page 2.
Please read the User Manual thoroughly after you download the plugin.
November 5th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
I have been trying to use your rotator script rotating AddSense and other text advertising but AddSense just would not show. I have converted the add code to one liner but it does not come up. Other lines do show up but not the ASense line.
Can you tell me if it does work with AddSense in general or is their code incompatible with this script?
I do not want to cut the code in two parts as you mention in the User mannual, but rather keep it all in the txt file.
Can you please tell me if it does work with AddSense.
If yes, can you please look into this code and may be tell me what is wrong here.
Thank you.
AS Code:
November 5th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
@Mike
> Can you please tell me if it does work with AddSense.
Absolutely. I use it in all my blogs.
> I have converted the add code to one liner but it does not come up.
That is kind of tricky so I don’t recommend it.
> If yes, can you please look into this code and may be tell me what is wrong here.
Sure. Send it at angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com
November 10th, 2005 at 1:58 am
I’m wondering whether there’s a way to make this display a Google AdSense for Search.
Or if you know of any other WP Plugin that can do this, I’d really appreciate you telling me.
Thanks.
November 11th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
@George
I am not sure about your question. Can you please clarify?
November 18th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
This plugin is really nice ! great work sir.
November 18th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Thanks Kritika.
BTW: Your link isn’t valid.
December 9th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
help I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getad()
anywhere i place
December 9th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Mr. P,
You haven’t activated the plugin.
December 22nd, 2005 at 8:57 pm
Can someone please provide an example of both the .txt file and code added into the template for mulitple AdSense ads?
Also, is it possible to make the ads appear at the bottom of each post?
cheers
December 22nd, 2005 at 11:21 pm
@Nathan
> Can someone please provide an example of both the .txt file
Check the comments, specifically comment no 13 where I provide an example.
> code added into the template for mulitple AdSense ads?
Please check the documentation. Essentially I call getad with different file names.
> Also, is it possible to make the ads appear at the bottom of each post?
Yes. In this blog I use AdRotator to display AdSense ad at the bottom of each post. Just add the line in your template after the post code.
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January 3rd, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Nathan might want to know… for the adsense ads, if you try to put everything on one line, there is some code
I just removed the
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:23 pm
oh .. dang code never showed up.. I hope you can edit and fix that.. so it makes sense . thanks (and you can delete this 2nd comment in moderation)
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Hart,
I couldn’t see the code even with edit mode. Can you please email it to me?
My email is angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com
Angsuman
January 5th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Angsuman:
I got the plugin to work correctly. However, I have two ad banners displaying on my blog at the same time: A leaderboard and a wide skyscraper. I’d like to have both of them rotate Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network ads — but displaying 2 AdSense or 2 YPN ads at the same time.
Right now, the Rotator randomizes it so that some of the time, for example, the leaderboard will show an AdSense ad, and the skyscraper shows a YPN ad, on the same page refresh. As I understand it, this violates both networks’ TOS.
Any way to control this?
Thanks for your work here.
January 5th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
@CT
You need a separate plugin.
I am working on it for this blog but I doubt if it will be free
January 5th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Hmmmm… Well, I’ll check on that. Good luck.
January 5th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
I don’t understand. I’ve put in a line of code in my ad.txt but nothing shows up. Why is this happening?
I put “
January 5th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Please read all the pages of this article for a proper understanding.
February 9th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Does this plugin work with Wordpress 2?
February 9th, 2006 at 2:34 am
interesting. but please, can someone show a good example for the txt file setup?
February 9th, 2006 at 3:59 am
@WP2
Yes, it also works with WP 2. In fact I will go on to say it is designed to be future-proof.
@Marco
You got it - sample adrotator file - adrotator_example.txt
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March 26th, 2006 at 8:50 am
In the user manual, you mentioned that
“Finally you need to specify a location to display your ads. Add the code in your template.”
Does I need to edit the template file by adding to index.php in the folder of ” public_html/wp-content/themes/the_theme_that_I_am_using ” ?
By the way, how can I add ” ” to each page or post in Wordpress hosting ?
Thanks
March 26th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Revised as follows:
Does I need to edit the template file by adding “ads code-php”to index.php in the folder of ” public_html/wp-content/themes/the_theme_that_I_am_using ” ?
By the way, how can I add ”ads code-php” to each page or post in Wordpress hosting ?
Thanks
March 26th, 2006 at 11:04 am
You may just need to add it to one file in your template. It depends on where you want to show the ad. For example if you want to show it in sidebar then add it to sidebar.php.
If on the main page then add it to index.php etc.
Hope you get the idea.
March 26th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Thanks for your help.
I still hope you go to details for “Page”,not for “post” in categories.
Because I did not find index.php related with “page”,and I have created severl “pages”,maybe I need to add ads in the middle of specific page.
So can I access folder ‘public_html/wp-content/cache/id/pages/specific_page.php ‘ ,and add [] code to “middle area” of page ?
Thanks
March 26th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Revised:
ADD[] mean ads code [php echo getad('Ad File Name');]
March 26th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
You are misunderstanding. Displaying of pages is determined by the template pages in your theme.
You have to make changes there. Please check the files in your theme and WordPress documentation in codex to understand how it works.
You don’t have to worry about cache for making any changes.
March 27th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
HI I installed this very cool app! thanks! BUT I need somme help.. I am gettinng some wierd characters and not sure from where or why..
I’m on a mAC using text edit saving it a .txt.
files are usually ok when I do that.
I have two ads listed on the text file. So there are only two images. the images have wierd charcters next to them and sometimes when teh page refreshes there is no image and just a long line of gobbledygook text characters.. any idea how to correct this?
thanks
regards
BArb
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April 6th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Maybe this is a silly q.
But please help.
What should I write in those txt files?
Can I show flash,jpg or any other images?
Can I control ‘randomness” and specifiy the banner to change only after certain number of days?
Thanks,
drb
April 6th, 2006 at 9:23 am
> What should I write in those txt files?
Your ad code, one per line. See example.
> Can I show flash,jpg or any other images?
Sure, anything.
> Can I control ‘randomness”
Yes. Please see the multi-page documentation above for details.
> and specifiy the banner to change only after certain number of days?
No.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Thanks for the prompt reply.
By any chance, are you considering adding the feature for-time period settings?
Thanks,
drb
April 6th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Would you be willing to sponsor it?
April 7th, 2006 at 9:19 am
I am afraid i can’t but sincerely wish to donate for your time, efforts and intellectual property. Someday I will, when I settle down with a decent job.
Thanks,
drb
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April 11th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Great idea but wheres the link to download?
April 18th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Comment #18 (above) contains the ‘Download’ link.
April 18th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Thanks Kat.
April 24th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Excelente, siempre hagan cosas así, simple, directo, sencillo pero efectivo. Muchas gracias, LLk
April 30th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Great plugin. I’m experiencing some difficulty though.
I’m trying to use it to rotate a series of Amazon Associate links that use the tag.
I’m using WP 2.2 w/ the default them w/ widgets enabled. I tried putting the php call inside a text widget in the Sidebar–no effect. I got it to work a bit but the variables inside the link cut off the rest of the widgets that were below it in the sidebar.
So then I put the php call in the bottom of the Sidebar.php theme page, just before the final tag. It worked about 60% of the time but made the rest of the site unstable, esp. in IE (where the reloads were particularly catastrophic).
I’m wondering if it has to do w/ the tag unless you have some advice about better placement in the Sidebar.php or a little code to wrap it in. You can access my ad file here.
Thanks again.
April 30th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
In the above, the tag referred to in the link is the “iframe” tag.
On the php page, I refer to the “div” tag.
They were originally cut out of the post. Sorry!
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May 8th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Hi! I’ve been using AdRotator for some time with no complaints (and much praise!) but now I’ve finally run into a question.
I want to include two different Google Referrer ads– one for Firefox, one for Picasa. I added the script to display the ads in my template, and I have the
line in my .txt file.
I also have my own banner (for my book “Brave Men Run”) in rotation.
The “Brave Men Run” and the Picasa ads rotate no problem… but the Firefox ad doesn’t seem to be in the rotation. Is it not possible to have two different Google programs rotate in the same spot?
Many thanks!
May 8th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
I downloaded, installed, and set up AdRotator today. I use it to display random ads on a local Web site, wickenburg-az.com. It does the job nicely, although I did have some trouble piecing together the instructions I needed. I wrote a quick How To article on my personal blog that explains what I did.
Thanks for the plugin.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Matthew,
Ensure that you have the entire Google code in one line, removing newlines etc. It will work.
Thanks Maria. Here is his tutorial link.
May 10th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I’ve uploaded the file, my text file is here:
http://www.phonereviews.mywebhut.com/blog/wp-content/myads.txt
I’ve added the code “php echo getad(’myads’);” inside the tags. I still can’t seem to get it to work. I’ve added the tags inside the index.php of my themes folder.
Thanks for the help…
May 15th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I’m trying to use this with AdSense. I’ve read everything on this site. I’ve seen the example.txt file.
I must be missing something. In my template, I have the google code for formatting the text ads. At the end of the format code I call the plugins php function. In my txt file I put the line from google. I’m getting the same ads. No matter how many lines of ads I put. If I remove the script line the urls show up but are not formatted.
Also, how do I get the correct tags for the google ads I want. They are hidden in other sites.
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
well, is anyone providing a solution here???
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Hi, I downloaded and Installed your Adrotoator Plugin locally and it was working just fine.
But when i tried to put it in my blog It doesn’t show up anything.
What might be the problem ? Does it require any special PHP extension ?
Please help me. Thanks in Advance
June 18th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I am not able to see my ad. I am trying to just show a simple banner image hosted on my own site.
I have tried everything possible… Any suggestions. thank you
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July 1st, 2006 at 10:23 am
I read the blog, comments and manual. put it up, turned it on and it worked first time! This was a breeze to put together and I am a code novice. Of course I have a question. I have five banner ads on my site that I need to rotate through so that the top most ad is random. I can load your “code call” five times, but sometimes that ends up with two duplicate ads showing at the same time. People come to my site 2 or three times a week — I want to sell the fact that there ad is always “up” and that the order of ads is random.
Is this possible?
DtV
July 1st, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Yes, it is possible. Contact me directly, using the contact form, for a quotation.
July 5th, 2006 at 10:21 am
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July 7th, 2006 at 10:44 am
commission junction uses java script for their ads
for example - 1 ad in my text file is here http://celebridiot.com/wordpress/wp-content/skyscrapper.txt
will this work with the ad rotator????
if so i have plugged in the ?getad code and nothing ever appears — thoughts? ideas?
July 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
John,
Yes. AdSense ads are also in javascript. They work fine. Contact me using the web form for any consulting needs.
July 11th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Great plugin, downloaded and installed it easily on a number of websites.
As all my sites also run wp-cache it does act differently then usual.
In my case the banner is cached for the time wp-cache is caching a particular page (with standard wp-cache settings that is 3600 seconds). No problem there - each page loads a different banner and the banners change on reload *after* the cache is reset.
Example site: http://www.privacyfinance.com
Paul
http://www.portagemma.com
July 18th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Hi!
I’ve been using your AdRotator plugin for WordPress for long time now.
First, I’d like to say thanks.
I have a question. I’m one of the theme builder of WordPress, if you let me I’d like to include your plugin with my theme with Japanese manual with it.(I’m Japanese)
Let me know if you’re fine with it.
Thanks!
July 18th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I have replied to your personally.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
have i missed something? i am not getting this thing to work.
i have created within the “wp-content” folder a file named “2X2_ad.txt” with the following line code:
in my sidebar, i have the following code:
Advertisement Space
any help is greatly appreciated.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
okay - so the code did not post ..
let’s try this again.
“txt” -
sidebar:
Advertisement SpaceJuly 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
txt file:
[a rel=”external nofollow” href=”#” title=’The power of advertising is GREAT.’>
July 19th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Send me the copy via contact form link, available on top right corner of the page.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:24 am
hi, thanks for your very indespensible plugin sir, guys like you makes the internet a much better place!
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August 3rd, 2006 at 9:13 am
Hi - I downloaded your adrotator script to my WP (v2.0.4) blog and I cannot get it to display. I’ve tried it in the header and footer templates, I’ve read thru the manual, looked thru WordPress forums for help and I can’t see what’s wrong. The txt file is created & fine, saved under /wp-content with simple banners and their links one per line, the formatting of the div section is fine as I’ve tested that with independent ads. The script is activated in the plugin area, the insertion script is copied directly from your manual with the appropriate file name. But nothing shows and when you view the source of the page, there is no code showing up for your script. The div tag (topads) it sits in is empty. Any ideas on what’s happening here? I’d really like to make use of this script as it sounds perfect for what I’m needing.
August 6th, 2006 at 8:00 am
HI, frostmom
just code error!
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August 6th, 2006 at 8:15 am
php echo getad(’bannerad’) X
php echo getad(’bannerad’) o
August 6th, 2006 at 8:37 am
dont copy sample code in this post.
php echo getad(’bannerad’)
( change this key ‘ -> Apostrophe key)
August 7th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Please make sure you have included:
<php echo getad(’banner_ad_text_file’) ?>
banner_ad_text_file is the text file name without the txt extension.
August 9th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Thx for the tips but I have that code in place already as you have indicated. Copied it straight from your manual:
where I have removed appropriate question marks for the php start & end code for this post and topbanner is the txt file I created as per your sample.
Any other suggestions as to what I may have missed?
August 9th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
oh picklejuice the code didn’t come thru, sorry. Here, let me try this:
Remove the Xs and dashes replace the single quote. (How did you get your code lines to show?)
August 9th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Still not showing, darn it and sorry. You’ll have to take it for granted that I copied your code line directly from your manual and that the php call line structure is identical to yours, with the appropriate substitution of the file name as you show.
August 9th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Can you please email me the exact code you included with the following information:
1. You blog url
2. Your text file name
3. Exact code you have included
August 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
information sent - thx
August 14th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Hi, I’m also not getting it to work, and have also followed instructions to the letter. Is there something broken with the plug-in and the later versions of WordPress?
August 16th, 2006 at 10:51 am
OK, sorted it. I think it’s absolutely essential that you make sure everyone understand that you need to use flat text quote marks and not styled quote marks from word-processor type documents which I suspect you have in your example code somewhere that I copied. Other than that it’s great, so thanks very much.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:43 am
GREAT! THANKS!
September 5th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
I have created a how-to on setting up Ad-Rotator with specific instruction on getting Google’s Ad-Sense working.
You can find the how-to @ http://www.davehildebrand.com/archives/36
September 13th, 2006 at 9:39 am
@Nigel
You are right. WordPress replaces simple single quotes with styled quote marks which creates problems for anyone doing simple cut-paste from the blog. I have replaced them with double quotes which should work fine with cut-paste.
September 14th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
[...] I won’t go into detail about my search for the plugin. It was neither long nor exciting. I wound up with AdRotator by Angsuman Chakraborty, which was really designed to work with Google AdSense and other prepacked blog advertising tools. But as I read the comments for the plugin’s description, I was assured that it would do what I needed to do. [...]
September 15th, 2006 at 4:08 am
Installed, Thanmks!!
October 1st, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Thank You! I got it working after only one mistake (a new record for me) and it works beautifully.
October 10th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
I haven’t been able to get the plug-in to work yet, but I’m still working on it. I wanted to ask whether the lines in the .txt file can be like this: or if they need to be html only?
October 11th, 2006 at 9:34 am
i think i have an idea why the google adsense ads don’t show at first even after correct installation. google self says that it takes up to 48 hours before the search robots have scanned your page and by this action enabling AdSense to work. no search robot, no adsense ads. it might be as easy as that. after an afternoon of searching the error, i now will fix myself a cup of tea and wait to see if i’m right
all the best,
chris from sweden
October 11th, 2006 at 9:49 am
and another reason to slap myself: make sure you don’t have any ad blockers installed in your computer or browser, like i had…
October 12th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
We are working on a professional version of this plugin. Stay tuned.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Just wondering if anyone could tell me which file to add the “” to if you want your ads to be displayed after each post? There are many editable files within Wordpress. Which one do you edit and where in that file do you add to show up after each post?
I tried adding it to the “Main Index” file which is very short. It did work if I added this after the footer info, but if I tried to place it after the post info, it messed up the whole site.
Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Rob
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Add it just above the comments section. You can also do it through a plugin. I have one such (unreleased) plugin which does the same for my other blogs like the stem cell research blog.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Hi,
Just above the comments section in which file?
Thanks for responding Angsuman,
Rob