to add the “contact form” :
go to plugins and enable “WP-ContactForm-SpamFree” plugin ,
type <!–contact form–> in the post / page, wherever you want the form to be appeared.

Note - You should be in HTML editing Mode Not Visual.

For example page see main blog contact us page.

Go to ‘Design’ -> ‘Widgets’ page and add ‘Google AdSense Link Unit‘ widget to your blog.

]]> http://blogs.lk/2009/01/29/google-adsense-link-unit-widget-added/feed/ http://blogs.lk/2009/01/20/get-blog-statistics-from-google-analytics/ http://blogs.lk/2009/01/20/get-blog-statistics-from-google-analytics/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:33:17 +0000 admin http://blogs.lk/?p=57 Now blogs.lk users can get blog visitors statistics from Google Analytic. You need to get google analytic free account and enter analytic ID to blog setting , Fallow the user guide below.

1) Get a Google Analytics account at http://analytics.google.com.
2) Go to the administration page of your yourname.blogs.lk.
3) Go to Setting option You can now find ‘Google Analytics’ Option
4) Enter your account number id , (it seems like UA-xxxxxxx-xx)
5) Wait until Google Analytics updates your reports. Currently it seems like this can take up to 24 hours. Note that by default Google Analytics selects a week ending yesterday as its reporting period. Click on today in the lefthand calendar to see today’s statistics, if they’ve already been reported.

See demo and instruction available at demo blog

Check your Sidebar configuration screen by clicking on Presentation and following the link to “Sidebar Widgets”. Drag and drop the Flickr widget into your sidebar and configure it there. You’ll need to copy and paste the URL of your Flickr RSS feed into a text box.

Detail explanation with the help of a screenshot , see demo blog

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Log into your blogs.lk blog, click on the ‘Plugins’ tab, and click ‘Activate’ - AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down)

We have added additional Forum topics to post your Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Feed backs and to Report Misused Blogs.

Use your blogs.lk username and password to log in to support forum. Go to Support Forum

Get new look for your blog.

Note:Inserting javascript code with-in the post / page content doesn’t work.

How to Configure?

Adsense Setup

Login to your blog’s Admin console and navigate to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Adsense Publisher’ page, from the top menu and enter your Adsense publisher code.

And ‘Design’ -> ‘Widgets’ page and add ‘Google AdSense ‘ widget to your blog

How does it work?

Once you have set up widgets , your Ads will automatically start showing up on the blog. We serve Ads in 60-40 sharing mode. That is, if a page is viewed 10 times, your ads would appear 6 times and our ads are served 4 times.