May 5th in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . Twitter is such a powerful community to be a part of. Millions of people share a ton of tweets with the world every single day. Every webmaster needs to have a Twitter account for all his/her websites. Fully integrating Twitter into WordPress will let you build a more solid community and increase the amount of traffic you get on your website. Here are 14 ways to do just that:
Connect your site to Twitter: Simple Twitter Connect is a simple to use plugin that lets you fully integrate Twitter into your website. It provides support for @anywhere too. It supports commenting via Twitter credentials.
Add Twitter to your footer: Wibiya is a wonderful footer toolbar that has a ton of apps (including some for Twitter and Facebook) that could make your site more social media friendly.
Display your tweets in WordPress: HL Twitter allows you to store tweets from multiple Twitter accounts on your website and display them to the world. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading May 2nd in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . Developing a WordPress theme from scratch does not have to be difficult. But you do need to know about various technologies to build a sophisticated theme. It is very much the same case if you are interested in heavily modifying your existing theme. These cheat sheets should help you get a refresher on some of these web technologies.
PHP Cheat Sheets
You can’t get started with WordPress programming without mastering PHP. PHP is a very simple language to learn but could take a bit of time to master. These PHP cheat sheets should help you get on your way:
PHP Cheat Sheet (V2): a classic cheat sheet that shows you how to handle PHP programming more effectively. Not a bad reference to have around.
PHP Application Security Checklist: every PHP developer should pay attention to their code and keep it as secure as possible. This check list could prove helpful in that regard.
PHP & MySQL For Dummies: a simple cheat sheet that shows you how you can create dynamic websites by taking advantage of PHP + MySQL. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 23rd in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . Facebook is the top social networking site these days. It is being used by millions of people already and can bring you a ton of traffic if used the right way. Adding and getting content to/from Facebook can help you take your WordPress community to the next level. Here are 10 ways to take full advantage of Facebook to take your WordPress portal to a whole new level:
Adopt Facebook Comments: many top websites have already added Facebook’s comment system to their websites. It can potentially increase your traffic and increase the level of engagement among your readers.
Add links to Facebook: adding your links and encouraging others to share your content is one of many ways to get action on Facebook. This plugin lets you do just that.
Import Facebook comments: this cool plugin can pull comments from Facebook into your own blog. It can save you a lot of time doing it.
Keep track of Facebook activity on your site: you do not necessarily need WordPress plugins to add a Facebook activity widget to your website. Facebook already has a bunch of social plugins you can take advantage of on your site. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 8th in Themes for Businesses, WordPress Themes, Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . WordPress may be a great platform for bloggers and online publishers. It provides them with everything they need to bring their content online. It does have benefits for small and large businesses too. Creating a portal, landing page, and business portfolio can’t be any easier with WordPress. Here are just 16 ways businesses can take advantage of WordPress:
Bring your corporate presence online: themes such as Nova allow businesses to go online and start connecting with prospects and existing customers more effectively.
Start a Knowledge Base: creating an information management system for your business can help you and your team stay on the right track and save some time in the process. Thankfully, there is a theme for that.
Gather feedback from your customers: every business needs to keep up with its customers and provide them with after-sale support. Themes such as Feedback Engine make creating a support system easy for businesses.
Create a Wiki: Wikis are great for businesses to communicate internally or externally with their customers. WordPress wiki theme is one of many themes you can use to create your own Wiki with WordPress. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 1st in WordPress Themes, Wordpress Tips, WP Stuff by Wordpress Jedi . So you have written an e-book already and want an easy way to promote your work online? Maybe you want to turn your blog into a book and start selling your previous works. Whatever the case, there are plenty of e-book themes and plugins you can take advantage of to start promoting and selling your e-books. Here are 5 ways to do just that:
Ebook Theme: an attractive and easy to set up landing page theme for your e-book. Allows you to start promoting and selling your e-book, while including your pitch and testimonials to improve your conversion rate.
Chapters: want to give your fans a taste of what your book is all about before turning them into buyers? Chapters theme allows you to publish parts of your book online for everyone to see. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading March 25th in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . Nothing can be more frustrating and heart-breaking than working days and night on your WordPress blog only to lose all your data due to a server crash. Let’s not forget about hack attacks either. If you do not backup your WordPress database on a consistent basis, you will have a harder way to restore your blog to its original state if your blog is hacked. You can always use the export functionality in WordPress to backup your website. If you need a more powerful solution, these 4 WordPress backup tools can help:
IDrive Plugin for WordPress: if you happen to have an online account with IDrive, you can use this plugin to backup your WordPress files easily to your account. It offers scheduled and instant backup of WordPress blog data including files and MySQL database dump.
Automatic WordPress backup: Amazon S3 is a wonderful service for webmasters and is pretty cheap too. Thanks to this plugin, you can backup all your important WordPress data safely online. BackWPup is another awesome plugin that works with S3, DropBox, and Azure. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading March 3rd in Premium Themes, Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . Those of you who have tried Internet marketing courses in the past are probably familiar with Ezine Articles and sites of that type. These types of sites not only provide webmasters a chance to get their websites links and more traffic, they make their owners a ton of money in the process. Thanks to article directory themes for WordPress, you can start your very own mini article directory in minutes. Here are 4 themes that let you do just that.
ArticleDirectory: a modern article directory theme that organizes your articles in an attractive fashion. It can handle paid article portals too.
Article Directory Theme: it can handle an unlimited number of categories. It is SEO friendly and makes life difficult for spammers. It offers word filtering too.
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