1. Wikipedia Commons

If you wish to find an image of a person or place which is in public domain, Wikipedia or Commons Wikipedia is a good source.

E.g. for Nelson Mandela :

2. Flickr Creative Commons

If you visit advanced search at Flickr You can search through images which are licensed under a creative commons licence. Just click the box ‘search by creative commons’

N.B. Creative Commons means you need to still acknowledge author.

3. EveryStock Photo

Everystock Photo – searches through different public domain sources. But, you still need to check licence and rules for each image and site.

Notes on Copyright Law

• Acknowledgement of the source does not mean an item can be copied. Giving the name of the photographer or author may help, but it is not sufficient on its own.
• A photo agency may licence a website / newspaper to use an image. But, they may be very strict in not letting others use the image. The newspaper may not mind if you copy image, but, the photo agency will.
• An image on an unimportant website may have taken an image from somewhere else, so be careful.

Fair Use of Images

Generally, using images does not fall into the category of ‘fair use’. However, under certain criteria images of dead people can fall into this criteria.

Fair use rationale – For US copyright Law

1. This image is a significant photo of a famous dead individual.
2. This image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of an inferior quality).
3. The image is being used for informational and educational purposes only by a not-for-profit organisation.
4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article.
5. There is not a free image available.

Royalty Free

Royalty Free means under a certain restrictions you can use the image without having to pay. But, note that the license may be restrictive for certain purposes.

To add Google analytics

1. Visit Google analytics – you will be instructed to get a google account.
2. Add your site and then add the code they give you into your web pages.

Blogger Template.

If you have a blogger (blogspot.domain). You would edit the blogger template and add the code.

6. Giving Access to Others

Click on access manager, when you have logged in. This allows others to have access to your stats.

With Google Analytics You Can

1. Track unique visitors, page loads.
2. Find sites sending you traffic.
3. Find the keyword searches that are sending people to your site.
4. Find which countries people are coming from.
5. Where People enter your site, how long they stay and where they exit.
6. Many other features.

To Use Your Own Domain Name

If you would prefer to have www.howtogrowpotatoes.com rather than http://www.howtogrowpotatoes.blogspot.com You need a few extra steps.

1. Click on Settings.
2. Click on Publishing
3. Click on Switch to Custom Domain
4. Buy A Domain with Google. They will then switch your blog to your new domain name.

• You can do this at any stage, google will automatically redirect your old .blogspot domain
• You can buy a domain name elsewhere, but you will need to switch cmod or something like that. That starts to get a little more complicated.

Installing and configuring

• Download and extract plugin files to a folder locally.
• You can change the number of posts per page and some other useful settings by editing the paged-comments-config-sample.php file (its all fairly well explained in the file), then save the file as paged-comments-config.php.
• Upload the whole paged-comments directory to /wp-content/plugins/ and enable the plugin through the WordPress admin interface.

Template hacking (yuck)

• We need to include the comment ‘pager’ in our template. If you are using a common theme, it might already be taken care of: just go to /wp-content/plugins/paged-comments/themes, open your theme folder, and then copy the comments-paged.php file there into your theme folder at /wp-content/themes
• If you are not using any of the themes listed in /wp-content/plugins/paged-comments/themes then go to your theme and copy the comments.php file to comments-paged.php

We will then modify the comments-paged.php as follows:

In the code at the start

<?php // Do not delete these lines
    if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
        die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');

change comments.php to comments-paged.php

To add the pager, place this code

  <!-- Comment page numbers -->
<?php if ($paged_comments->pager->num_pages() > 1): ?>
 <p class="comment-page-numbers"><?php _e("Pages:"); ?> <?php paged_comments_print_pages(); ?></p>
 <?php endif; ?>
 <!-- End comment page numbers -->

before the <ol class="commentlist"> line and again after the </ol> marking the end of it

If you want to make comment number visible on the blog, add this line of code

<div class="comment-number"><?php echo $comment_number; $comment_number += $comment_delta;?></div>

You can add it anywhere between <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?> and <?php endforeach; / end for each comment / ?>, but the best place is probably before the author name (<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite>). In practice, this hasn’t worked too well for me, so use with caution.