I’m testing an ad plugin. I don’t want ads to be too obnoxious, but I want to run some. (For example, reading Keith Kloor post linking to instructions on finding a green hottie has motivated me to think about whether homebrew is “green”.
If I’m going to discuss homebrew, I might as will link to ads showing you the homebrew kit my brothers in law got and those of you who are thinking of going “green” by making your own beer can order kits resulting in a humongonomous influx of affiliate earnings to me. But… to do that… I need to inject ridiculously high paying ads into appropriate blog post.
Of course, if I’m going to do that, I want to be able to easily change the ad later when a company stops selling a particular beer making kit. And of course, on some future day, I’ll want to run ads for something like a coffee grinder. To do that conveniently without injecting ads into all the non-beer making posts written by me, Zeke, and any and all future authors requires using a flexible plugin. I think I may have found one, but meanwhile, I need a test post with tags and category properties that let me limit display.
This is the post. It is tagged “beer”, and placed in the category “Commercial”.. Right now, it has no ads, but if the plugin I’ve found works as advertised, some will appear. With luck, none will appear in the other posts. (If any of you happen to have tips for the perfect plugin, pipe up!)
[sam id=1 codes=’false’]I’m currently testing out simple ads manager, which is new, seems to have useful features and links to blog posts that appear to explain how it is used. If this is a bust, I’ll update and report what other plugins I’m trying.
Update: This plugin works, and has features useful to real bloggers. (That is, bloggers who mostly provide content but would like to insert occasional ads, but which they anticipate wanting to update. In contrast there are blogs set up mostly to advertise stuff. They have different needs.)
Wow what a great post. I can safely say I know more different beers than all the regulars here, combined. I think I could probably rattle off near a thousand different kinds of beer. Anybody who seeks knowledge about beer, ask Dr. Shoosh. This is one of my specialty fields. At this time I will tell everyone this year’s best winter beer. Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome, hands down. It is expensive at about $62 dollars a case but well worth it. There isn’t any other winter beers even close.
My son’s neighbor across the street has been home brewing for several years now and when I visit I always remind my son to tell Mike, how much I enjoy his beer. Mike always sends over a large container of beer (I forgot the name for the container, but there is one) when I arrive.
He has a pole in his backyard where he grows four different varieties of hops for his home brew. My son tells me that Mike now starts with pretty much the basics of brewing beer.
Mike, my son and one of my son’s in-laws know lots and lots about beer – and scotch for that matter. I enjoy listening to them talk about the processes of brewing different beers and making scotch. And of course that all goes better when I having a good beer or scotch.
By the way, I have never heard any of these people expound on how much (more) they know about beer or scotch, but of course none of them are kids – or act like one.
Kenneth–
The “boys” as my mother in law calls them are just starting to brew now. But we’ve been growing hops for 3 years. ( Brewers gold http://www.brewwiki.com/index.php/Brewers_Gold_Hops )
Last fall, we donated some to a beer making friend who decreed the “brewers gold” were great! I think there may be a beer tasting on Sunday– just in time for the superbowl. I also figure I should report, and as long as I do so, I should describe what they actually use. They are planning to mark the bottles and keep track of various recipes.
(I was surprised to learn this hobby is supposedly green. My impression is that it’s only “green” if you ignore 80% of the stuff hobbiests end up doing when making beer. Like– driving to several home brew shops to “research” things. )
@Kenneth Flinch
Yes and none of them have doctorates. I simply noted that I know many beers because people often want suggestions for what to eat with it and such. I hope you never get to drink Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome. Thanks to Miss Flinch, I am now very hesistant to share my ancient knowledge of fine beers. If anyone wants suggestions, they will have to be done via email, unless Flinch has an apology pending.
Oh man I almost forgot, who is everyone rooting for in the superbowl? Gotta be the Steelers. Our town is considered a drinking town with a football problem. If you never been to a Steeler game, you don’t know what tailgating is. Big Ben is the best quarterback in the league. It is not because he is the most accurate or that he can throw it the farthest, it is his ability to break out of tackles. Vick is a lot faster but Ben is so big that he just throws people off like flies. The Doctor’s prediction is the Steelers win by at least 10.
Shoosh– I think we are rooting for the Steelers because they aren’t the Packers.
Alright Lucia! Who is your favorite team? Living in Pittsburgh is so awesome, especially right now because the Steelers and Penguins are so good. The new Penguins arena Console Energy is state of the art. It has to be the nicest hockey venue. They have interactive touch screens, they have high end sushi bars run by “Nakama” which I don’t know if it is a chain or not. I don’t eat sushi and I hate but I think it’s really cool they have them in the arena. They also have gourmet chefs that make something different every game so you don’t have to always do the nachos and pizza thing. The only thing that is disappointing is that they have RC cola products, not Coke or Pepsi. This is cheap.
Shoosh–
I never had much interest in football or teams. I only like it for the eyecandy aspects. I lost interest in football when they changed cameras. I called the old ones the “butt cam” because we often got slow motion close ups of muscular guy’s thighs and rear ends as they caught footballs, and sometimes went tumbling through the air. But then the broadcasting stations changed to those cameras that show the full field better. My understanding is this was supposed to be some sort of improvement. Go figure….
I’ll be making chips, chile, drinking beer and crocheting. Unless there is a particularly attractive player on one of the teams, I’ll root for whomever the other guys are rooting for. Usually, that’s the Bears, but they aren’t playing.
Drphd, I have drunk Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome and found it incredibly good tasting. Unfortunately it had some very bad side effects: I wanted to go on line and take over threads with outlandish statements. I think the effects are now gone but no more Winter Welcome for me.
Lucia, I have gay acquaintances who watch football for the same reasons as you evidently do. I suspect though that they know more of the intricacies/strategies of the game than you. They would not be knitting while the game is on. If I were attracted to guys I would certainly take Aaron Rodgers over Ben Roethlisberger. Plus the fact that Rodgers is the better QB and has not had to defend himself from charges of being too aggressive off the field.
The Packers have the better passing attack (provided their offensive line protects Rodgers) and defense. Pittsburgh has a better running attack. The Packers were 3 point favorites last time I looked. The only worry I have about the Packers is that my team, da Bears, gave them 3 close games and my Bears were really not that good this year – as their record might otherwise indicate.