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WordPress Post Plugin – Side bar post display
Posted by: | CommentsI am searching high and low for the Wordpress template tag that allows you to list your posts by categorey in a sidebar. Of course this has lead me to not yet find an answer to my question, but I have been playing with some great Wordpress plugings for displaying your posts in your side bar.
I like the Category Posts Widget. It is light weight and has most of the features your average blogger would need.
Display thumbnail images via WP 2.9’s new post thumbnail feature.
Set how many posts to show.
Set which category the posts should come form.
Show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
Show the post date.
Show the comment count.
Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
Multiple widgets.
Another great side bar widget for wordpress is Query Posts Justin Tadlock. It allows you to display posts by tag, category, author, time/date, custom field key and/or value.
Choose any number.
Order by various terms.
Show pages.
Show the full post, excerpt, or even order them in a list.
And much more…
Justin’s side bar widget is a bit more ‘techy’ but all of his plugins get high ratings from me.
Say NO to splash and entry pages
Posted by: | CommentsThinking about a splash page or entry page that a visitor has to view or (click to skip) before heading on to view your blog or e-commerce site? Don’t.
What IS a splash page ” A page in a Web site that the user sees first before being given the option to continue to the main content of the site. Often a splash page will consist of animated graphics and sounds that entice the user into exploring the rest of the Web site. Some splash pages will bring the user to the main Web site automatically, and some require the user to click on a link that will load the main page. “ quote Useful design
I can not more adequately get my point across then to simply say “DO NOT EVER use an entry page” on your website. EVER. So now that I have made that clear let me tell you why;
1) It’s outdated. DO you want users to think you are a serious professional website, company, or blog?
Your site needs to not look like a site built in the year 2000 (because, yes, that was TEN years ago. Ten years is a decade.) Are we on the same page now about splash pages? Read More→
Manage your Wordpress pages with this WP plugin
Posted by: | CommentsHave you ever spent tons of time searching through your WordPress Page admin trying to find the page you wish to edit ? Once you ahve more then ten WordPress pages listed on the WordPress Pages edit page, finding the one you are looking for can be time consuming. Even frustrating.
There is a solution to help you manage your WordPress pages in the admin panel. Geeky Weekly My Page Order is a WordPress Page management plugin that helps you manage the order of your pages, this makes finding the pages needing constant update a snap. It also allows you to group your wordpress pages within the WP Page edit screen. How does it work ? It inserts a DRAG AND drop FEATURE in your Wordpress Edit Page screen!
My pages were a random mess of pages including drafts here and there.
The drag and drop feature allowed me to lsit them in a more organized order. Our main pages (update often such as FAQ’s), All the pages by member type, Followed by the admin pages (like login & registration), followed by drafts, pending pages.
A quick save and back to the edit pages screen and now I can find what I am looking for. This is a great plugin to manage, group, and organize your WordPress page order in the edit page screen.
Now here’s even better news! Geeky Weekly has more of thes wordpress plugins to manage more areas of your Wordpress admin panels!
- WordPress Plug in – My Link Order – Organized and manage the order of your WP links
- WordPress Plug in – My Category Order – Organized and manage the order of your WP categories
- WordPress Plug in – My Page Order – Organized and manage the order of your WP pages
You can install these from your Add new upload plugin screen in your WP Dashboard. More details can be found at Geekly Weekly.
Please note that this will not work with Admin Management Xtended which has it own drag and drop page ordering. I haven’t checked to see if the Link and categories plugins conflict with Admin Management Xtended.
I give this Wordpress plugin -> My Page Order 4/4 stars !
Managing multiple social media accounts
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I received a note from the CEO of Postling (David Lifson) this morning via Linked In, inviting me to check out Postling as a means to manage my multiple Social Media accounts. At a quick glance Postling appears to be similar to Ping FM. The concept of Postling was born in June 2009 and the service is relatively new.
P{ostling is incredibly user friendly. The service is designed for those of us who may not be techy geeks but need a way to save the time of having to log onto five or more social media sites each day. The dashboard is clean and easy to navigate.
Postling allows you to;
- update your social media ’statuses’
- create a Blog Post
- upload an Image
- or share a link.
These are the four main actions of managing a Social Media account and for a small business owner really the only tools you need to jump into Social Media.
At this time Postling only allows you to link up the following Social Media accounts:
Facebook
Twitter
Blogs
Wordpress
Blogger
Tumblr
Typepad
Squarespace
Drupal
Photos
Flickr
I am hoping they will add bitly support and more of the social media networks I use on a regular basis. Especially Linked In (as it is an important network for small business owners), plurk, and indent.ca.
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