Monday we will roll out Google Analytics and Ad Removal.  We will also implement dynamic ad serving on Monday that will only show ads when they are likely to be useful, and not when they are likely to just be annoying.  Our hope with this ad system is that we can have ads to help keep the server humming along while not annoying everybody with ads.  With that will be ad removal for you super bloggers who don’t want ads displayed, even if rarely. 

Tuesday though Saturday we plan on implementing a whole slew of themes for your blogs.  Then next week we plan on working on features specifically for Ministry Partners, you won’t want to miss it.

The next thing we have done is add re-CAPTCHA. It is a system developed at Carnegie Mellon University which utilizes CAPTCHA to assist in the process of digitizing the text of books, while protecting our signup process from automated signups which account for 85-90% of splogs. We also have made minor changes to our abuse reporting system as well, between these two we hope to stop the splogs.

We are also launching our premium upgrades. Right now you can get theme customization or stats pack (which includes Google Analytics integration and feed forwarding to forward your RSS feeds to FeedBurner) for $20USD per year each. Contact us support@dialytestimony.net if you are interested in either of these, and we will get it setup. You can pay online via paypal or mail us a check. We add a small convince fee for paypal payments to help cover the paypal fees we are changed so we still get the full amount (or thereabouts) to invest in our service.

There are many other small changes, such as our redefined logo and more.

The contest for Ministry Solutions is officially over and we regret that there are no winners to announce, it seems nobody that knows about Daily Testimony has the need for this, which is understandable for a small site like ours. We would like to recommend our paid upgrades for your blog(s) to help give us the money needed to advertise.

Not only that but if you signup for Ministry Solutions before the end of June you will be entered in our contest.  The winner will get the Ministry Solutions doubled for what they paid for.  So if you bought a month of Ministry Solutions, you will get a free month, but if you ordered and paid for a year you will get an additional year at no extra charge.  There will be two winners, one for those with monthly hosting, one for those with yearly hosting.  They will be announced Tuesday, July 1st.

For more information on our Ministry Solutions, Click Here.

Update as of June 21st: You may have noticed that we have officially renamed the service to Ministry Solutions, the previous name was temporary until we found our new name.  We feel this name better communicates what it is about and is also more unique than the temporary name.

With this you will notice several changes, especially in the admin panel.  It has been completley redesigned to be easier to use and view.

Within the next hour or two some small changes will be occuring to customize the Wordpress enviroment for our users.  We hope you like the new layout, we look foward to your

Also you may have noticed several splogs popped up while since my last update, I admit I dropped the ball and didn’t even really check in, but they have been removed, and I am looking into ways to prevent future splogs from even getting started.

You’ll be glad to know, the few faithful users that exist so far, that I have not forgot about Daily Testimony.  I hope to do some recruiting of new members from my church now that most of the bugs are worked out, however I plan on staying in beta status at least though the summer.

We are looking in to a better hosting solution, preferably one that will give me more control over the server, such as a VPS account. I welcome any suggestions you have, we plan on making the move as smooth as possible when it will occur.

Featured Post The featured post is the most recent post in one randomly selected VIP blog when you load the front page The Featured Post is not yet fully implemented

Recently Updated Blogs This contains a list of the 5 blogs that have been recently updated, even free blogs without any upgrades will be listed

Login from the Homepage We now have a simple login form to allow you to login to Daily Testimony right from our homepage

Support Chat We are constantly looking for ways to improve your experience, now we offer live support, linked from our homepage

About Me Widget We offer a free about me widget you can add to your blogs sidebar to let everyone know a little about you You must first activate it from the Plugins menu

Invite A Friend Invite your friends to join Daily Testimony, Simply go to the Users tab on your Dashboard then select Invites from the sub-menu

Feedback Your thoughts are important to us, in the upper right-hand side of your Dashboard click the Feedback tab to make suggestions or report a bug, please DO NOT use it for support, it will not get answered. Clicking Feedback will not move from the current page so you can send some off to us without even loosing what you are doing.

We hope you enjoy the new features of Daily Testimony and that you invite your friends to stop on by.

Why would you want to be added to our global tag cloud? Because those comming to our site click on a tag they like, and read blog posts with those tags and so it bringd traffic to your blog.