Last week I provided some tips on what you can do to promote WordPress.  This week I wanted to cover something else people can do to show their WordPress pride.   That is of course to link to WordPress somewhere on your site (usually the footer), or to place a WordPress logo somewhere on your WordPress blog.

This way when bloggers using other platforms such as Typepad, Moveable Type, or Blogger visit your website, they will see your sweet design, WordPress plugins, great blog functionality, and want to know how they can get that for their blog.  The answer is of course to switch to WordPress!

How Do I Get a WordPress Logo for My Blog?

Getting a WordPress logo for your blog is as easy as visiting the logo page of the official WordPress site or the WordPress fan art page.   You’ll find logos of all different types and sizes to choose from on both pages.

Have you ever tried to insert advertisements (or any bit of code really) into the WordPress post loop, then found that it will insert the banner after each post?   It really depends on what you are going for, but this usually will not be an ideal solution to placing advertisements between posts on your homepage.   If you’d like to place something only after the first post in the WordPress post loop, here is a quick hack you can do to tell WordPress to only display it after the first post.

Simply go to your themes homepage and look for the following code:

<?php endwhile; ?>

Immediately before this code, place the following code:

<?php if(!$show_ads){ ?>
Insert Code Here
<?php $show_ads = 1; } ?>

Obviously you’ll want to replace Insert Code Here with your code.  Told you it was easy!