Archive for April, 2009

The National Lottery Euro Millions

Posted on April 28th, 2009 in Rant | No Comments »

Well its another roll over for the UK national lottery, the jackpot has reached an amazing £89 million great British pounds. This is one of the biggest jackpots ever accumulated with the national lottery and its going to cause a massive ticket buying frenzy this week. The result is going to be drawn on Fri 1 May 09, with a euro millions lottery ticket only costing £1.50 you might as well take the chance. A good way to buy your tickets is online where you will receive an automated email alert if you win, great if your clumsy and miss place your tickets. www national lottery

The odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24. It’s worth remembering that the exact value of prizes depends on how many tickets are sold and how many people match the same quantity of numbers as you. .
Match Estimated win Approx odds (1 in x)
5 main numbers + 2 Lucky Stars Jackpot 76,275,360
5 main numbers + 1 Lucky Star £282,218.80 5,448,240
5 main numbers £53,392.70 3,632,160
4 main numbers + 2 Lucky Stars £3,559.50 339,002
4 main numbers + 1 Lucky Star £169.50 24,214
4 main numbers £79.10 16,143
3 main numbers + 2 Lucky Stars £53.90 7,705
3 main numbers + 1 Lucky Star £19.60 550
2 main numbers + 2 Lucky Stars £16.50 538
3 main numbers £12.00 367
1 main number + 2 Lucky Stars £7.20 102
2 main numbers + 1 Lucky Star £6.40 38

William Hill Drop Grand National Commission!

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 in Rant | No Comments »

Offering free bets two weeks either side of the Grand National is big business, potentially luring in thousands of customers looking for more betting power. William Hill has decided to decrease there commission to the big figure zilch, which is going to be a mistake, why lose thousands of customers? who are probably going to loose anyway. Read more william hill drop affiliate CPA commission on grand national day.

Strange Gmail Message, what are you doing google!

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 in Google, Rant | 1 Comment »

When trying to sign into google this morning I received the following message, btw I dont live in Germany!

Csv To Wordpress Post v2 Released

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Wordpress | 33 Comments »

This is V2 of the CSV to Wordpress post script, with a massive 800+ downloads of V1 its getting very popular for affiliates creating quick and easy stores with data feeds. If your going to use the script, maybe link to me or mention the script on your blog.

Check a demo of this script in action working with wordpress ——> http:/// www  .  mrchampagne  . co . uk

Updates to V2:

Category bug fixed
Link Bug Fixed
You can easily select the button image, currency, button alt and Image style.
Upload sprite
Better layout

Installation Instructions

  • Unzip the file csvtowordpresspostv2.zip,
  • Upload the folder “csvtowordpresspostv2″ to the wordpress directory “/wp-includes/csv2/” you can do this with your FTP tool  (im using Cyberduck on mac os)
  • Point your browser to to www.yourwebsiteurlsite.com/wp-includes/csv2/upload.php “for the numpties open this url in “FIREFOX” or your preffered browser.
  • Check! the script is now in this location “/wp-includes/ for the script can work properly, and the css styles.
  • Creating a csv file, your .csv files need the following fields Title, Description, Category, Image, Link, Price. So go and grab your self a datafeed from affiliate window or affiliate future an change the fields to the ones above. E.g. the field “Aw_deeplink” will need to be changed to “Link”
  • Done! your now ready to start uploading your csv files.
  • Goto upload.php and select “browse” and find the .csv file which you modified for the fields.

Make sure your .csv files have the required fields Title, Description, Link, Price, Image, Category

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. I’m getting errors with something along the lines of “time out max memory exceeded”

Answer: If you run your own server, change the php timeout and memory settings. Or ask your hosting technical support to change it. If both of these fail, select half the data in excel or neo office(macusers) and copy, then delete, save file, upload, paste deleted data into new file and upload.

2. The categorys arent working.

Answer: See these two lines in “upload.php” require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); require(’../../wp-admin/includes/taxonomy.php’); add the proper locations!

3. It doesnt work.

Answer: Post in comments or wordpress support forum, make sure you attach to code or nobody can help you.

4. What can i use this script with

You can use it to upload Affiliate Date Feeds to wordpress and turn them into blog posts, I’ve used this script successfully with Affiliate Window & Affiliate Future. It works with every other feed as well.

Download CSV to Wordpress V2

Csv To Wordpress Post v2 (1359) - 4.55 KB

Updates for V3(not released yet)

Maybe scheduled posts
Turn it into an actual wordpress plugin
Tag support
and more.