{"id":1697,"date":"2010-10-14T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/insights-wordpress-plugin-reveiw\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T21:40:36","slug":"insights-wordpress-plugin-revie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/insights-wordpress-plugin-revie\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights WordPress Plugin Reveiw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/plugin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"plugin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/plugin_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C184\" border=\"0\" alt=\"plugin\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> Even though I spend most of time designing, I am still a blogger. As a blogger, I am constantly looking for ways to streamline my content creation and find the multimedia needed for each article. For me this is the worst part, of the article creation process. There are a variety places to find what you need. It isn\u2019t as simple as slapping down videos and images to keep people on your site. At first this helps your bounce rate, but eventually your return visitors get tired of it and start looking other places to find what they are looking for. In order to keep your readers coming back for more and keeping your bounce rate low, you need relevant images and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Before you go out and start grabbing videos and images, you need to keep in mind that they need to be related to your article and should never just load up tons of images and videos unless its some sort of inspiration post. When looking for content, try and find things related to your keywords or an image that is related to your content. For me this can be hard. I can find videos, but I generally forget or just do not want to spend the time looking for a good video to go with a post. As for images, this gets hard. I generally look on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a> or several other free image sites. Even with hundreds of pictures available it still can be hard to find something that goes with your article.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be great if we had a way for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> to suggest an image, video, or links that will add more to your content? If you are looking for a way for WordPress to help with adding conent, I found a WordPress Plugin that can help with this.\u00a0 The plugin is Insights. I found the plugin in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousbloggers.net\/seo-booster-wordpress-plugins.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> over at Famous Bloggers earlier this week and have been using it for the last few days.<\/p>\n<h1>What is Insights?<\/h1>\n<p><a title=\"Insights\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/insights\/\">Insights<\/a> is a\u00a0 powerful WordPress plugin that is designed to help add more content your articles. The <a title=\"plugin \" href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/6-useful-wordpress-plugins-for-businesses\/\">plugin <\/a>will increase your productivity by speeding up your process of finding quality content for your articles. To help speed up the search, Insights uses a dynamic <a title=\"AJAX\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajax_(programming)\">AJAX<\/a> interface which loads information that is relevant to your post within seconds. Insights allows you to;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interlink posts<\/li>\n<li>insert Wikipedia pages<\/li>\n<li>Search Google,\u00a0 Google News, Google Blog, and Google Books<\/li>\n<li>Insert Google maps<\/li>\n<li>Insert YouTube Videos<\/li>\n<li>Insert Flickr images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to Install Insights<\/h2>\n<p>Installing Insights is very easy to install. The easiest way to install Instights is through your admin panel in WordPress. You will need to <strong>navigate to the plugin section. Click on Add New Plugin &gt;&gt;&gt;Search for Insights &gt;&gt;&gt; click on Details for Insights &gt;&gt;&gt; Click Install &gt;&gt;&gt; Activate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>How Easy it to Configure?<\/h2>\n<p>Configuring Insights is easy. Once you have activated the plugin, click on click Insights under the settings on the left sidebar. Once inside the settings, you will have very little to do. If you want, you can leave the defaults alnone. They work fine. But if you have an older site, I would change the default search results for \u201cmy blog\u201d to 10 or 20 results.\u00a0 But the rest of the setting should be fine. If you have a Google Maps API key, you would enter on this page as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsConfiguration.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Insights WordPress Plugin Configuration\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsConfiguration_thumb.png?resize=619%2C494\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Insights WordPress Plugin Configuration\" width=\"619\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How is Easy Is It to Use Insights?<\/h2>\n<p>As mentioned before, Insights is super easy to use. All you need to do is highlight a set of words and then enter those words into the search field that will be below your content form of the creation\/edit post part of <a title=\"WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. Then select what area you want to search.\u00a0 Below is an example how I would use Insights on one of my fan art articles.<\/p>\n<h3>Image Search<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsImageSearch.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin: 10px auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Insights Image Search\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsImageSearch_thumb.png?resize=619%2C371\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Insights Image Search\" width=\"619\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a> As you can see from entering in <a title=\"Captain America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/11-killer-examples-of-captain-america-fanart\/\">Captain America<\/a>, it is searched Flickr for images tagged with the words Captain America. Once you find the best images, you can click on them and it will add them where your cursor is positioned. If you have words highlighted it will replace those words with images.<\/p>\n<h3>Video Search<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsVideoSearch.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin: 10px auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Insights Video Search\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsVideoSearch_thumb.png?resize=619%2C558\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Insights Video Search\" width=\"619\" height=\"558\" \/><\/a> Doing video works the same way as image search, but when you select a video and it opens a preview of the video. Once you view it and want to added then just click the add button.<\/p>\n<h3>Link Search<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsLinkSearch.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin: 10px auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Insights Link Search\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/InsightsLinkSearch_thumb.png?resize=619%2C417\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Insights Link Search\" width=\"619\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a> Add links through the link search works the same for My Blog, News, Books, or Wikipedia. Once you find the right link you can click on it to view the link. Once you are finished reading that article, you can then click to insert the hyperlink to the word you have highlighted.\u00a0 Unlike some link suggestion plugins, this plugin does not add in useless junk code into the hyperlink code. Its clean and simple, just like the plugin..<\/p>\n<h2>Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>Overall the plugin is a great tool. If used correctly, you should be able to add more content, and find articles on your site that are related to your current posts. I have tried several other plugins that are like Insights but they are either to many features making it hard to use or adds extra junk code to your posts that is not needed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else using this plugin? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onetreehillstudios\/2958752337\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I spend most of time designing, I am still a blogger. As a blogger, I am constantly looking for ways to streamline my content creation and find the multimedia needed for each article. For me this is the worst part, of the article creation process. 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