Posts tagged wordpress plugins
Author hReviews Makes it Easy to Add Google Rich Snippets for Reviews
Jan 30th
Do you like to do reviews about products and services on your blog. Do you companies offer products and services for you to review? If so, I have a plugin for your WordPress blog that will only help you out with your reviews.
Author hReview WordPress PluginThe plugin that will help you build your review articles is the Author hReview Plugin by Hesham Zebiba. He originally created the plugin as a Thesis Only Plugin but had a change of heart. He made so everyone can use it. All you have to do is have a self hosted WordPress blog and More >
Jetpack WordPress Plugin
Dec 19th
A few months ago I started using a new WordPress plugin called JetPack. Jetpack is a combo pack, it doesn’t have just one plugin, but has 8 great plugins all in one neat little package. And they are always working on adding more great plugins to the pack.
As you can see from the print screen, you get a lot of great plugins. The best part is, it easy to activate and deactivate each individual plugin. The Jetpack configuration page will look similar to this print screen. But next to the learn more buttons, you will have an activate button or deactivate More >
A Mashable Styled Social Sharing Bar – WordPress Plugin
Dec 12th
SEO is great for getting search engine traffic, but only concentrating on SEO isn’t the best strategy. You can get a lot of good referring traffic from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and even the new Google+ can bring you traffic. But you won’t get any traffic if you don’t have an easy for your visitors to share your articles or even follow you on your social media sites.
There a lot of good social media sharing plugins available but many are not update with the latest social media sharing sites or they have to many options that end More >
Simple:Press – A Simple Way to Integrate WordPress with Forums
Oct 24th
Are you looking for a way to add a forum or some sort of message boards but you do not want to spend the time integrating one of those popular message boards with your WordPress Blog? If you are looking for an easy way to integrate wordpress and a message board, then I have found a solution that might work for you.
Earlier today I came across a WordPress Plugin that creates a message board right from your admin panel. That plugin is called Simple:Press!
What is Simple:Press?Simple:Press is a forum plugin for WordPress and it fully integrates into WordPress Driven More >
Drag and Drop Your Images Directly into Your Articles
Oct 3rd
Anyone that has tried to upload a lot of images to WordPress knows how long it can take. If you do tutorials with images or lists with screenshots and you have more than a handful of images to upload you can easily spend thirty minutes to an hour uploading your images, configuring them and placing them in your article.
Placing images in an article should take but a few minutes. But with WordPress, this isn’t the case. You have to manually upload the images and configure the images. You can always bulk upload them through the media library but, you still More >
WordPress Mondays: Learn How Easy it can be to Create CSS Buttons with MaxFoundry’s WordPress Plugin
Aug 29th
Web designers and web marketers love navigation buttons and call to action buttons. These buttons, if designed correctly, can point readers towards important content, products, and subscriber list forms. Buttons are only as good as they a designed. Well designed buttons can help drive traffic to where you want. Whereas, a poorly designed button won’t be all that effective.
Creating stylish buttons can be hard work, but, for those that do not have the skills or tools to create effect buttons for their sites, button creation is a lot harder. For those that have the skills and tools to create More >
3 Ways To Find Scripts and CMS’s Running on a Website
Jun 9th
Have you ever come across a website and wondered what CMS (content management system)they are using or what plugins a site is using, maybe what JavaScripts/jQuery scripts the site has installed?
If so, then you are in luck. Recently, I found three tools that can help you find out more information about a site.
Why Would You Want to Know What Scripts and CMS’s Are Running On a Website?As a designer, I am always looking for new trends in design. So when I come across a site with a great design. I like to check out how the site was designed. More >
The Best WordPress Social Media Sharing and Marketing Plugins of 2011
Jun 8th
Once you have your WordPress blog created and have your SEO plugins in place, you need to add your social media and marketing plugins to your site. Usually I recommend not adding to many plugins to your site at first but I do recommend getting your social sharing buttons setup.
Before setting up your social sharing plugins up, you will need to have content to share. What I recommend is, First, set up your social media networks up within a week or so after the site is live. But I would at least secure your usernames and your vanity links for your More >
Mash Up #12: Its All about WordPress Today!
May 22nd
Hey guys, its that time again for our weekly Mash Up series. This series is a list of great articles I have read over the last week or so and I share them here. Generally these lists have articles for everyone. You can usually find a great listing of design related articles. But I also share articles about SEO, blogging, making money online, social media, new media, photography, and inspiration articles.
But this week, I decided to do it a little different and stick to only one topic. This week’s mash up is all about WordPress. I found all of these More >
Daniel Lew Creator of Keyword Winner WordPress Plugin
Apr 15th
Note: article contains affiliate links.
Since I started Evolutionary Designs I have looked for ways to get exposure to my site. As most of my regular readers know, I am a designer and not a marketer. So all my education and training has been in web design and IT (information technology).
After about six months of running Evolutionary Designs I realized that I needed to learn more about online marketing and how it could help my site and my clients needing help with building traffic for their sites.
So as I do with any other issue I have, I started More >
MaxBlogPress’s Max Banner Ads Plugin – Review
Jan 6th
So are you interested in adding ads to your WordPress Blog? Maybe to your sidebar as a widget or even in a post? But after researching or trying out different ad plugins for WordPress, you found that you had to do additional coding or the plugins were not as good as they were made out to be.
After looking into few of the of the other ad rotator plugins, I came across a few I liked, but they take to much time to setup and you still have to add code to get them to work with your themes. I don’t mind working More >
5 of My Favorite WordPress Plugins
Dec 18th
Earlier today I was visiting DiTesco’s site, iBlogZone, and I came across one his articles about a list of his must have WordPress Plugins. If you do get the chance, check out his article, he has some good ones on there that look very useful and I plan to test some of them and do a review on them.
That article reminded me that I have been wanted to do an article on some of my favorite new plugins. So today, I thought I would list a few of the ones I recently installed and tested.
Why Do I Need WordPress Plugins? More >
