Jesse Peterson

I have added Amazon Context Links to my blog. The links will show up with a double underline. This links are automatically added by Amazon, linking from content in my blog to Amazon products for sale. These links provide advertising to help pay for this blog hosting.

To add them in WordPress, I first went to the Amazon Associates Central. Their “Context Links” page under “Build Links” page provides an interface for building the snippet of code needed to add Amazon Context Links to the site. I copied this chunk of code to the clipboard. Then, I opened the theme’s footer, which in my case was: wp-content/themes/default/footer.php. I pasted the code right before the <?php wp_footer(); ?> text at the end of the file. That was it. We’ll see how this works.

This was the second time that it happened to me. I was checking my bank transactions and noticed that one of the transactions as reported by the bank was $33.28. In my transaction log though, I had recorded $33.08. My bank now provides electronic images of the canceled checks (instead of returning the actual canceled check like they did in the old days). I logged on and looked at the image. Yep, the check was written for $33.08 and “written” for “thirty-three and 08/100”. I sent the bank an email. They responded that they would credit my account $.20. It’s only $.20, but it could have been much more. I am surprised that this doesn’t happen more often. The whole check-writing thing seems a bit archaic, at least to me, a self-proclaimed computer geek, what with the analog (me hand writing a check) to digital (someone/something has to convert it into digital form and enter the transaction amount into a computer) conversion.

My bank is Farmers State Bank. Thank you for being quick and courteous.