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WordPress Plugins For Business Blogging
As the Internet expands, providing more marketing opportunities for business, many companies have recognized the advantage of having a company blog. For any size business, WordPress offers an affordable opportunity to have a professional, interactive blog. WordPress makes it easy for you to communicate with consumers through the use of a variety of plugins designed to entice visitors to interact, resulting in website conversions. WordPress Pluses Fast and easy installation, easy to use interface, and the “free” price tag make WordPress the obvious choice for small businesses. Numerous plugins are especially helpful for business, and the plugins are easy to download and simple to install. The “Install Plugins” window is found in the WordPress dashboard. It makes it easy to do a fast plugin search and install. … Continue reading
WordPress Is For Everyone – Including Beginners
In the beginning, the building of websites was the exclusive domain of the technically gifted. As the Internet continues to gain steam as a critical method of communication, people outside the field of technology want to build their own websites. People have opinions they want to express, art they want to display, or other talents they want to share. Times have changed. It’s no longer necessary to hire a professional web designer for thousands of dollars, because WordPress makes it possible for the beginner to build their own beautifully designed website. Getting Started It’s always best to have your own domain name. There is a yearly fee, which can vary depending on where you make your purchase. Make a list of several acceptable domain name choices, as it may take … Continue reading
How to Find and Install WordPress Plugins for Your Site
In recent years, WordPress has become extremely popular as blogging and content management software for websites. However, once WordPress is set up, the webmaster might wonder how to increase the capabilities of the core program. Here is where plugins come into play. WordPress plugins are pieces of software that extend the functionality of WordPress in various ways. You can find a vast array of plugins that will help you do such things as interact with site visitors via social media, place ads in specific locations on your site, and change the look and feel of your blog posts. Two of the best ways you can go about searching for and installing safe WordPress plugins are described below. Through the WordPress Plugin Directory 1. Go to the WordPress Plugin Directory, located … Continue reading
Missing Wordpress Page Template Drop-Down Menu?
We ran into a little issue that took us longer than we had hoped to figure it out so we thought we'd share the solution as many blogs out there discuss the issue but don't clearly explain how to resolve it (perhaps because there are multiple issues involved). This is an issue with WordPress 3.0.1 and perhaps some earlier versions as well. Basically, there is no drop-down menu allowing you to select a page template that you have created when you are working with a non-active theme and a theme selector plugin. 1. First, create a page template by creating a file like so: <?php /* Template Name: YourPageTemplateName */ ?> <?php /* Your Page Template Code */ ?> 2. After you've created your file, you need to save the … Continue reading
Remove the "/category/" sub-folder URL in Wordpress
By default, all WordPress categories use a permalink structure that includes a sub-folder "category". For example, if you had a "cities" category, your default URL to view all posts for that category would be: http://mywonderfulsite.com/category/cities/ A web perfectionist may actually prefer the URL: http://mywonderfulsite.com/cities/ The easiest way to accomplish this is with a 5-star rated plugin called "WP No Category Base": http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ Just upload the downloaded folder to your plugins directory, activate it and you're good to go! For those of you that already have links out there and are concerned about 404s, not to worry - the plugin will handle the redirection with SEO-friendly 301s.
Filter WordPress Categories When Using the_category()
There are times when you'd like to list the categories a particular post belongs to with exception for a few specific categories. The WordPress function "the_category" is used to display the categories of a post. For example, if you'd like to display a comma-separated list of categories a post belongs to you could use the following syntax within your loop: <?php the_category(', ') ?> This would list all categories for a given post. However, if you'd like to not include a few of the categories for whatever reason, you can add the following lines to the end of your functions.php file: function the_category_filter($thelist,$separator=' ') { if(!defined('WP_ADMIN')) { //list the category names to exclude $exclude = array('Mac','Windows'); $cats = explode($separator,$thelist); $newlist = array(); foreach($cats as $cat) { $catname = trim(strip_tags($cat)); … Continue reading
Select Specific Category for Wordpress Permalink
One limitation of WordPress (including WordPress 3.01) when using the "%category%" permalink syntax is that you can't choose which specific category you'd like to use for a post when a post belongs to multiple categories. For example, this post could be assigned to a "Wordpress" category as well as a "Productivity" parent category. By default, WordPress assigns the category with the lowest ID database value. To resolve this, there is a handy little WordPress plugin called "Hikari Category Permalink". Here's the download link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hikari-category-permalink/installation/ It is based upon the "sCategory" plugin. You don't need to change your permalink structure (still use %category%) but now when you post/edit a post, a little hover 'permalink' link will appear over the categories. Simply click that hover link and that category will be used!
