great article. thanks for sharing.
regarding the login lockdown - does anyone have any tips for blocking traffic from certain IP addresses or certain countries? i get tons of registrations to some of my sites coming from certain countries and/or IP addresses. They are all trying to spam my comments with links to get the Google PageRank. thankfully Askimet blocks most of this stuff.
anyone know how to do this, or know if there is a wordpress plugin for it? fiddling with the .htaccess file maybe?
For the question about AdSense and PayPal. There's an AdSense plugin that you can install. You just add in your AdSense ID and its off to the races. You can download the AdSense plugin here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...sense-and-ypn/
For PayPal buttons, just edit your page with the HTML view (instead of the visual view) and paste your PayPal HTML code.