I have no clue as to what the aforementioned plugin does; but according to the different blog posts I read today both plugins seem to be somewhat similar. Wp-Insert is a multifunctional plugin and comparisons like this occur frequently. This particular one shows up in a lot of sites though

Do note that neither me nor SmartLogix Technologies is in any way related or affiliated with the developer/marketers of the so called plugin Wp Opt Insert.

Wp-Insert is created with the sole intention of giving back something to the wonderful wordpress community and I believe in opensource and GPL.

I request everyone in the community to help and support each other either by donations, code snippets or reporting bugs or in any other way you can and help more and more people use the magnificent piece of code named WordPress.

Expand the “Syntax Highlighting for Code in Posts & Pages” section

Click “Click to Activate” and the Click “Save Changes”.

Follow the tutorials on http://www.wp-insert.blogolb.net/tutorials/syntax-highlighting/ to know how to add code snippets into posts and pages.

You can either enclose the code snippet between [ code] and [ /code]

OR

Add the code in a custom field and then add the custom field name to the short-code as follows [ code custom='blah'][ /code]

You can either add it directly into the post which will probably mess up the formatting and reduce the readability ad shown below

<?php

$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',
	'numberposts' => -1,
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => $post->ID,
	'exclude' => get_post_thumbnail_id()
	);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
	foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
		the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false);
	}
}

?>

Or you can use a syntax highlighting system which will make the code much more easier to read and understand.

[code language="php" custom="code1"] [/code]

Consider the following few code snippets

Snippet 1

[code language="html" custom="code2"] [/code]

Snippet 2

[code language="php" custom="code1"] [/code]

You will notice that each one of them has syntax highlighting but is formatted differently.

The author of the post will definitely know which language the code snippet is written in.

While adding the code snippet to the post the author can easily set the language so that it is formatted correctly using the language attribute of the short code as shown below

[ code language="php" custom="code1"][ /code]

Make sure you don’t enter the wrong language. Entering the wrong language may cause the code snippet not to show up in certain cases.

There is a quick and great fix to this problem if you are using Wp-Insert to insert ads into your sidebars.

Towards the bottom of the box you can see the “Ad Box CSS Styler” section which simply lets you add CSS style to the ad.

Add “text-align:center;” to the code there and click save.  Your sidebar ads should now be center aligned.

Share your ideas on how to improve this feature here.

[keyword id='1']

[keyword id='2']

This was one of the main concern from me while inserting ad above the post content or in the middle of it.

What I use to do was insert the ad manually into the template and enclose the ad code in a DIV and then style the DIV using CSS from the theme style sheet.

I often experiments with ad position and this was proving a highly time consuming and inefficient method.

With Wp-Insert you can style each individual ad block the way you want it.

I shall now create a margin of 10 pixels around the ad at the top of my post.  This process can be repeated for sidebar ads, template ads and other in post ad types too.

Towards the bottom of the box you can see the “Ad Box CSS Styler” section which simply lets you add CSS style to the ad.

Here Wp-Insert automatically assign the style values “margin: 5px;padding: 0px;” and these values are perfect fit with most themes out there. but you never know when you need to do that tiny bit of tweaking!

So I am going to assing a margin of 10px around the ad to make more space between the post and the ad content.

Click save and you have successfully increased the margin around the ads. In case you want a border around the ad type “border: 1px solid #000;” after the “margin: 10px;” part, Essentially the styles accepts all css styles so its pretty much your imagination at work here.

Thats it. Share your views and ideas on how to improve this feature with us.

I have..and I turned to technology for help and the result is this amazing widget which I want to share with you

You can place this widget on your site for free..

Just paste the following code where you wish to insert the widget.

<script src=’http://smartlogix.co.in/mobiletracer.js’ type=’text/javascript’></script>

Provide me feedback on what you think.

Insert this cool snow fall script on your website to entertain your website visitors this X-mas..

To insert the snow effect onto your wordpress blog without editing any files you can use Wp-Insert “Tracking Codes” section.

Copy the code in the box below into the “Insert Code in Footer” section in the Tracking Codes admin page in Wp-insert

<script src="http://www.wp-insert.blogolb.net/wp-content/uploads/xmas/snowstorm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Based on Snowstorm script from http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/

On one occassion I used to promote a particular product on one of my blogs. That product was giving me very little click throughs and I decided its high time I stop promoting this product as people doesn’t seem to be interested in it anymore. I wanted to stop the ad from showing up until I find another one which I can place in its place.

The product link was inserted above my posts using wp-insert. So I opened up the “Manage Ads (Posts and Sidebars)” menu and expanded the “Ads – Above Post Content” section

You can see the “Click to Deactivate” button on top of the block. Click it and then Click Save and the ad will stop showing up immediately.

When you are ready with your new ad code or if you decide to promote the same ad again you can come back later and Click the “Click to Activate” button followed by the “Save” button to begin serving the Ad again.

First of all pick an ad size suite to your post content area. I have selected an 468 x 60 text or image ad in adsense.

You have to copy the highlighted code to insert into your blog.

Now you have to log in to your wordpress admin section and look towards the end of the big wordpress menu to find the Wp-Insert section.

Click on “Manage Ads (Posts and Sidebars)” and you will be led to the Wp-Insert Manage ads page for In Post Ads and Sidebar Ads.

Now click on Ad – below post content to reveal the edit area.

Paste in the adsense code in the big box that says ad code and click “Click To Activate” button to activate the particular ad.

Then you have to click the Blue button at the bottom of the page which says “Save Changes”. Wait for the page to refresh.

Open your webpage and you will now be able to see the ads below above your post content.